Hi Zurich — Eric here. After moving here for work and spending months trying to figure out where to actually live — close to the office? cheaper towns out on the S-Bahn? which areas are quiet vs loud? where do the taxes bite less? — I gave up on cantonal websites and built the tool I wished existed.

VivaMap (https://vivamap.ch/en/) rates places across Switzerland on 9 livability dimensions (transport, noise, air quality, schools, taxes, nature, healthcare, services, sunlight), 0-10 scale, fully comparable across the canton and beyond.

For the Zurich crowd, two things tend to land: (1) the transport + noise scores make the "is this S-Bahn town actually livable" question concrete, and (2) the tax explorer (/taxes/) shows where your specific household — say "dual-income couple, no kids, 250k" — pays less, including the low-tax spots people always mention but rarely quantify. Live ESTV data.

Free, no signup, no ads, FR/DE/EN. Feedback very welcome — especially if you think a score is off for an area you know.