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District de Lausanne

Vaud

District de Lausanne is one of 10 districts of the canton of Vaud and comprises 6 municipalities with 175'881 residents in all (BFS, 2025). A district is an administrative unit of the canton — a court and administrative area, not a postal delivery area: postal codes and localities follow delivery routes and can cross district borders.

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Federal Statistical Office (FSO), retrieved 12.08.2026

Votes in District de Lausanne

district results as published by BFS
Federal Statistical Office (FSO), retrieved 12.08.2026

Politics

National Council election 2023 · sum of its municipalities
SP31.2% · strongest party
SP31.2%
GRÜNE18.6%
FDP16.6%
SVP12.2%
PdA/Sol.8.3%
GLP6.8%
Mitte3.5%
Übrige1.8%
EVP0.5%
EDU0.5%
Jouxtens-Mézery
59 %
median of its municipalities
71.3 %
Lausanne
78.5 %

A district has no tax rate of its own. Rates range from 59 % % in Jouxtens-Mézery to 78.5 % % in Lausanne (median 71.3 % %).

Tax burden (single, CHF 100,000): 15.4 % in Jouxtens-Mézery to 16.7 % in Lausanne (ESTV 2'026)

Vacancy rate
0.63 %
Dwellings
95'891
Avg. rooms
2.9
Built before 1946
30.0%

Vacancy rate: published by BFS for the district (2025) · Dwellings: sum of its municipalities (2024)

Population change

BFS · 2025 · sum of its municipalities
Population change 2025
+926 +0.5%
births
1'714
deaths
1'166
net migration
+46
BEVNAT (Statistik der natürlichen Bevölkerungsbewegung) 2025 · Federal Statistical Office (FSO), retrieved 19.09.2026

Economy

BFS · 2024 · sum of its municipalities
Jobs
148'205
Workplaces
15'945
Services share
92.5 %
Jobs by sector: Primary 203 (0.1%) · Secondary 9'085 (6.1%) · Tertiary 137'163 (92.5%)
STATENT (Statistik der Unternehmensstruktur) 2024 · Federal Statistical Office (FSO), retrieved 11.09.2026

Agriculture

BFS · 2025 · sum of its municipalities
Farms
44
Organic share
25 %
Farmland
1'345 ha
Landwirtschaftliche Strukturerhebung 2025 · Federal Statistical Office (FSO), retrieved 19.09.2026

Climate · Terrain

MeteoSchweiz · swisstopo
Annual mean temperature
10.4 °C
Precipitation
1'125 mm
Elevation
372–934 m
Flat share
66.8%

Climate: area-weighted over its municipalities · Terrain: swissALTIRegio 40 m, zonal over the district polygon

Energy · Accessibility

BFE · ElCom · ARE
Solar potential
622 GWh
Electricity
28.4 Rp./kWh
Public transport to centre
29 min
Road to centre
18 min

Solar potential: sum of its municipalities · Electricity: median of its municipalities (26.11830.418 Rp./kWh, 2027). ElCom publishes a median per municipality; the district value is our median of those. · Accessibility: median of its municipalities

Map

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Which municipalities belong to District de Lausanne?
District de Lausanne comprises 6 municipalities: Lausanne, Epalinges, Le Mont-sur-Lausanne, Cheseaux-sur-Lausanne, Romanel-sur-Lausanne, Jouxtens-Mézery. Together they have 175'881 residents (BFS, 2025).
Which canton is District de Lausanne in?
District de Lausanne lies in the canton of Vaud, which is divided into 10 districts.
How many people live in District de Lausanne?
District de Lausanne has 175'881 residents (BFS STATPOP, 2025) — the sum of its 6 municipalities; the largest is Lausanne with 145'596.
Does District de Lausanne have its own tax rate?
No. Tax rates are set by municipalities. In District de Lausanne the municipal rate ranges from 59 % (Jouxtens-Mézery) to 78.5 % (Lausanne).
How did District de Lausanne vote in the latest federal vote?
On 14.06.2026, District de Lausanne voted 34.1 % yes on “Änderung des Bundesgesetzes über den zivilen Ersatzdienst (Zivildienstgesetz, ZDG)” (Accepted) — the district figure BFS publishes.

Districts exist in 17 cantons; UR, OW, NW, GL, ZG, BS, AI, NE and GE have no such level.