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Municipality hub
Bourg-en-Lavaux
Bourg-en-Lavaux connects 6 postcode pages in Vaud. This hub shows membership, address shares, and demographic context.
- Postcodes
- 6
- Population
- 5'616
- Streets
- 149
- Effective tax rate
- 14.04%
- ESTV: single, CHF 80,000, no church tax
Postcodes in Bourg-en-Lavaux
The municipality includes 5 split-postcode cases and 9 locality names. Use the links for address, demographic, and map context.
1097
Low taxesRiex
- Address share
- 100.0%
- Population
- 1'412
- Effective tax rate
- 14.04%
1091
Low taxesGrandvaux
- Address share
- 99.4%
- Population
- 1'412
- Effective tax rate
- 14.04%
1098
Low taxesEpesses
- Address share
- 95.8%
- Population
- 1'393
- Effective tax rate
- 14.04%
1096
Low taxesCully
- Address share
- 94.6%
- Population
- 1'387
- Effective tax rate
- 14.04%
1070
Low taxesPuidoux
- Address share
- 0.2%
- Population
- 6
- Effective tax rate
- 14.41%
1095
Low taxesLutry
- Address share
- 0.2%
- Population
- 6
- Effective tax rate
- 13.53%
How this municipality cluster behaves
Bourg-en-Lavaux connects these postcodes through one administrative structure.
For ESTV tax year 2024, the standard scenario produces CHF 11'233 total tax, or 14.04% effective.
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