Statistics
The Urban Statistics Service is the competence center for the preparation of public statistics for the City of Lugano.
Responsible: Giorgio Maric
The Urban Statistics Service is the competence center for the preparation of public statistics for the City of Lugano. Within the City Administration, it is tasked with compiling and providing high-quality statistical information that is easily accessible and straightforward to use, covering all aspects of urban life essential for planning and managing various areas, including population, economy, public finance, society, security, traffic, culture, territory, and environment.
As a full member of the Swiss Public Statistics System, the Urban Statistics Service of the City of Lugano adheres to all national and international standards of transparency, scientific foundation, autonomy, data protection, and individual privacy. This compliance enables it to withstand pressures from any particular interests and ensures trust, security, reliability, and a high degree of credibility in official statistical information.
Tasks and activities
- Annual and multi-year planning of urban statistics products for the City of Lugano
- Design of data collection and survey processes
- Data processing, validation, storage, and documentation
- Data analysis, interpretation, and elaboration
- Quality control and plausibility checks of indicators
- Support, consulting, and targeted analyses
- Public dissemination of urban statistics products
- Management of the Open Government Data policy
The City’s Statistical Portal
The Urban Statistics Service manages the City of Lugano's online statistical portal. This interactive online platform is an intuitive and user-friendly tool that allows users to dynamically consult statistical indicators for the Lugano area. The platform offers maps with various levels of detail, depending on the user's needs, ranging from the entire city to individual districts and down to specific sectors.
On the statistical portal, you can find all dissemination products of the Urban Statistics Service:
Each year, the statistical yearbook of the City of Lugano, Lugano in cifre (Lugano in Figures), is published in both print and digital formats. It is an updated collection of the City’s main statistical indicators across 15 themes: city evolution, land structure, population, education, buildings and housing, economic activities, taxation, labor and employment, social issues, culture, sports, public safety, mobility, environment, and urban waste. The yearbook is published annually in Italian and English. The latest edition is available at the following link:
The Urban Statistics Service periodically develops targeted analyses and sectoral studies on topics of interest to politics, public administration, academia, and the general public. The studies cover various themes and can be consulted at the following links:
The online statistical platform provides tools for interactive analysis on the following topics:
In the digital age, data is a fundamental resource for a prosperous and participatory society, a competitive and sustainable economy, environmental and climate protection, scientific progress, and the innovative actions of modern institutions. The ability to use, connect, analyze, and interpret data responsibly and autonomously is also the foundation for technological innovation, the creation of new knowledge, sustainable economic development, particularly in urban economies, and social cohesion.
The City of Lugano provides aggregated data in the form of Open Government Data (OGD), accessible on the following page of the statistical portal:
The English version of this page was created with the aid of automatic translation tools and may contain errors and omissions.
The original version is the page in Italian.