Postcode and municipality
Swiss postcodes vs municipalities: which unit you should trust
Postcodes and municipalities overlap in Switzerland, but they are not the same thing. Keeping them separate makes tax data and location data easier to read.
Municipality hub
Bowil
Bowil connects 5 postcode pages in Bern. This hub shows membership, address shares, and demographic context.
- Postcodes
- 5
- Population
- 1'304
- Streets
- 114
- Effective tax rate
- 15.72%
- ESTV: single, CHF 80,000, no church tax
Postcodes in Bowil
The municipality includes 5 split-postcode cases and 5 locality names. Use the links for address, demographic, and map context.
3533
Bowil
- Address share
- 97.7%
- Population
- 1'034
- Effective tax rate
- 15.72%
3538
Röthenbach im Emmental
- Address share
- 13.2%
- Population
- 124
- Effective tax rate
- 16.20%
3534
Signau
- Address share
- 9.0%
- Population
- 122
- Effective tax rate
- 16.02%
3673
Linden
- Address share
- 1.3%
- Population
- 17
- Effective tax rate
- 15.90%
3531
Oberthal
- Address share
- 1.1%
- Population
- 8
- Effective tax rate
- 15.81%
How this municipality cluster behaves
Bowil connects these postcodes through one administrative structure.
For ESTV tax year 2024, the standard scenario produces CHF 12'578 total tax, or 15.72% effective.
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