In all, about 40,000 foreign nationals receive Swiss citizenship every year. But where is the naturalisation rate highest and lowest?
20Minuten news platform has used official data to demonstrate which cantons and municipalities grant Swiss passports to most applicants.
Let’s look at the cantons first.
In this respect, the country’s most ‘international’ regions are at the top: Geneva’s naturalisation rate is 2.84 per 100 eligible individuals, and Zurich’s 2.16 percent.
Vaud follows close behind with 1.95 percent, Zug with 1.88, Bern with 1.79, and Basel-City with 1.74 percent.
Cantons that naturalise fewest foreigners – less than 1 percent of all eligible individuals – are Jura (0.44 percent), Neuchâtel (0.63), Nidwalden (0.65), as well as Valais and Obwalden (0.8 percent).
What do these figures look like at the municipal level?
Your best odds of becoming Swiss are if you live in communities of Provence (Vaud) and Schupfart in canton Aargau, where 13.8 and 13.6 percent of 100 eligible people, respectively, are naturalised.
Next is Jussy in Geneva (10.6 percent), followed by Boltigen, canton Bern, (9.8 percent), Flühli, Lucerne, (9.1 percent) , and Silenen (Uri) – 8.5 percent.
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And if you are hoping to become Swiss, don’t move to Jura, where several communities – including Haute-Ajoie, Bure, and Courtedoux – have a zero-percent naturalisation rate.
In Valais, Bourg-St-Pierre and Hérémence, as well as Bergün and Sils in Graubünden have the same zero rate, which means either than they don’t have any foreigners living in their midst, or just don’t grant any citizenships.
You can see all the relevant data here.
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