La Baroche groups Miécourt, Charmoille, Asuel, Fregiécourt and Pleujouse, with its hilltop castle, in eastern Ajoie where the land starts rising into the Jura.
At CHF 3,600 per m² for a flat, La Baroche is one of the cheaper places to buy in Jura. Lower entry prices normally come with a longer commute or an older building, and one of the two usually explains the discount. A gap of 12 percent against Jura means the same budget buys noticeably more surface here. It also means resale leans on demand spilling over from the pricier communes next door, which comes and goes with the cycle. Out of 49 communes measured in Jura, La Baroche sits at position 35. The communes immediately above and below are the ones a buyer will actually compare against, far more than the cantonal average.
Flats in La Baroche cost more per square metre than houses, CHF 3,600 against CHF 3,400. That points to a compact, well-served centre where small units are in demand, while the houses that sold sit further out on larger plots. Flat prices in La Baroche are up 3.7 percent over twelve months. One year is a short window, so measure it against the longer trajectory before you read it as a change of direction.
Against the Porrentruy district the gap comes to 0 percent. This is the comparison that carries weight for an estimate, because communes in one district share a labour market, a transport network and the same pool of buyers. before 1919 accounts for 27 percent of homes in La Baroche, ahead of the other periods without dominating them. A mixed stock widens the price range inside one commune, where two flats of the same size can be a third apart on condition alone.
At 4.5 rooms and 115 m² on average, homes in La Baroche are sized for households rather than single occupants. If you are looking for a studio or a two-room flat, expect a thinner choice and less room to negotiate. The median flat in La Baroche comes out at CHF 3,600 per m², a gap of 12 percent against the Jura median. That figure covers every flat sold, whatever the floor, the age of the building or the state of the kitchen. From CHF 6,300 to CHF 7,500 per square metre in 7 years, +19 percent in all. The path was not a straight line, and the flat or falling stretches inside it are precisely what a long average hides.
Transaction volume in La Baroche is high enough that one unusual sale does not distort the medians. That matters, because thin markets are where automated estimates go furthest wrong and where a local opinion earns its keep. In La Baroche the local price per m² is a floor, not an answer. What your property adds to it, or takes away from it, depends on its condition, its plot and its access to public transport.
Building stock from the Federal Register of Buildings and Dwellings (FSO), updated October 18, 2026
Market data updated on October 12, 2026
A range set against the price levels of your commune and the profile of your property.
Value my property →The median flat in La Baroche is priced at CHF 3,600 per m². That puts the commune 12 percent from the Jura median, a gap explained in part by the age of the local stock and in part by how little land is left to build on.
Count on roughly CHF 3,400 per m² for a house in La Baroche. That rate applies to habitable surface, which leaves out the garage, the cellar and any unconverted attic, all of which add value but never at the same rate.
27 percent of homes in La Baroche date from before 1919. That age band sets the technical agenda for a buyer here, since insulation, heating system and windows are what decide running costs for the next twenty years.