Market map · Switzerland

Public, community & associations in Switzerland_

As of 4 November 2026, 46,546 public, community & associations companies are based in Switzerland: 1,855 with 51+ employees, 164 hiring right now, led by nonprofit civic associations and Zürich.

As of 4 November 2026 · refreshed daily · counts move as websites, DNS and career sites are re-read.

Companies, confident classification
46,546
51+ employees
1,855 · 4%
Hiring now
164 · 51 new in 30 d
Largest segment
Nonprofit civic associations · 21,800
Top city
Zürich · 2,869
Running cold outbound
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46,546public, community & associations companies in Switzerland
1,855with 51+ employees
164hiring on their own career site today
51opened a role in the last 30 days
02 — Segments

Public, community & associations in Switzerland, by segment

Click a segment for its own map. Second column: companies hiring right now.

By sub-vertical
companies · hiring
Nonprofit civic associations
21,800 · 29
Amateur sports clubs
10,754 · 10
Charitable foundations
6,966 · 36
Membership associations & unions
6,963 · 62
Churches congregations
3,462 · 6
Public programmes & agencies
3,100 · 33
Research institutes & think tanks
1,567 · 21
Municipal government
870 · 3
Justice & public safety
83 · 2
By company size
companies · hiring
Self-employed
25,979 · 2
2-10 employees
15,303 · 50
11-50 employees
3,409 · 29
51-200 employees
1,332 · 30
201-500 employees
308 · 23
501-1000 employees
94 · 8
1001-5000 employees
84 · 18
5001-10000 employees
16 · 2
10,001+ employees
21 · 2
By city
companiesshare
Zürich
2,8696%
Bern
1,7714%
Basel
1,2173%
Genève
9622%
Lausanne
6571%
St. Gallen
5641%
Luzern
5061%
Winterthur
4341%
Bern 65
3491%
Fribourg
3341%
Chur
2491%
Biel/Bienne
2250%
03 — Largest companies

The biggest public, community & associations companies in Switzerland

The largest companies of the market, by headcount; job boards and portals left out.

Médecins Sans FrontièresInternational relief charities · Genève10,001+ employeesEtat de FribourgMunicipal authorities & general public bodies10,001+ employeesMairie de GenèveMunicipal authorities & general public bodies · Onex5001-10000 employeesKanton St.GallenGovernment agencies & ministries · St. Gallen5001-10000 employeesStadt SchaffhausenMunicipal authorities & general public bodies · Schaffhausen1001-5000 employeesStadt UsterMunicipal authorities & general public bodies · Uster1001-5000 employeesKanton SchwyzGovernment agencies & ministries · Schwyz1001-5000 employeesFondation genevoise pour l'animation socioculturelle (FASe)Local social welfare foundations · Petit-Lancy 11001-5000 employeesGönnerverein Walter ZooOther membership associations & unions · Gossau SG 21001-5000 employeesThe United Nations Office at GenevaEmbassies & consulates · Genève 51001-5000 employeesCanton de NeuchâtelMunicipal authorities & general public bodies1001-5000 employeesHospice généralLocal social welfare foundations1001-5000 employeesPaul Scherrer Institute PSIBiotech medtech rnd · Villigen PSI1001-5000 employeesInternational Labour Organization (ILO)Policy think tanks · Genève 51001-5000 employeesStadt WetzikonMunicipal authorities & general public bodies501-1000 employeesStadt AdliswilMunicipal authorities & general public bodies · Adliswil501-1000 employeesKanton SchaffhausenMunicipal authorities & general public bodies · Schaffhausen501-1000 employeesSchweizerischer Badmeister-Verband SBVIndustry & employer associations · Aarau501-1000 employeesMunicipalité de NyonMunicipal authorities & general public bodies · Nyon 1201-500 employeesStadt DietikonMunicipal authorities & general public bodies · Dietikon 1201-500 employees
46,546 public, community & associations companies in Switzerland; 164 of them hiring.

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04 — What they run

The stack of public, community & associations in Switzerland

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46,546 public, community & associations companies are based in Switzerland: 1,855 with 51 or more employees, 164 hiring right now (51 opened a role in the last 30 days), led by nonprofit civic associations and Zürich. (Breaknorm, 4 November 2026, https://breaknorm.co/market/community_associations_public/switzerland)
How we know

Read from the source, not self-reported

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  • ClassificationEvery company is classified from its own website into vertical, sub-vertical and leaf with a confidence score; this page counts industry confidence ≥ 0.7 and country confidence ≥ 0.8.
  • Company listRich profiles with a LinkedIn-known headcount only; job boards, directories, portals and non-organisations are left out.
  • HiringOpen roles read hourly from the company's own career system.
  • StackScripts and embeds on the company's pages plus SPF, DKIM, MX and CNAME records of its domain.
FAQ

Public, community & associations in Switzerland: questions

How many public, community & associations companies are there in Switzerland?

46,546 with a confident industry and country classification, read from their own websites; 1,855 of them have 51 or more employees.

How do you know a company belongs to public, community & associations?

We classify every company from its own website into a vertical, a sub-vertical and a leaf, each with a confidence score. This page counts companies with industry confidence of at least 0.7 and country confidence of at least 0.8; the company list shows only rich profiles with a LinkedIn-known headcount.

Which public, community & associations companies in Switzerland are hiring?

164 have an open role on their own career site today and 51 opened one in the last 30 days. The full list with the hiring manager is in the product; counting is free.

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