At the crossroads of the Orbe plain, Chavornay is growing fast around its station and the business zones of the Nord vaudois.
Chavornay prices below the Vaud median, at CHF 7,900 per m². For a buyer that widens what one budget covers, often by a room or by a plot. For a seller it means the surrounding communes set the ceiling. A gap of 14 percent against Vaud 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 132 communes measured in Vaud, Chavornay sits at position 88. The communes immediately above and below are the ones a buyer will actually compare against, far more than the cantonal average.
Per square metre, a flat in Chavornay at CHF 7,900 costs more than a house at CHF 7,300. Large houses spread their price across surface nobody pays the full rate for: corridors, cellars, attic space under the eaves. The last twelve months added 2.9 percent in Chavornay. Rises of this order usually come from a shortage of listings rather than from a wave of new buyers, and they unwind faster than they build.
Within the Jura-Nord vaudois district, Chavornay lands 16 percent from the local median. A cantonal average mixes city and countryside, so it flatters some communes and penalises others. The district figure removes most of that distortion. The largest group of homes in Chavornay, 16 percent, dates from before 1919, with the rest spread across the other bands. Where stock is this varied, a commune price per m² carries less weight and the comparison has to come down to buildings of the same age.
At 3.6 rooms and 98 m² on average, homes in Chavornay 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. Half the flats sold in Chavornay went above CHF 7,900 per m² and half below, which puts the commune 14 percent from the Vaud median. One exceptional sale barely moves a median, and that is why we use it instead of an average. Over 25 years the median moved from CHF 4,000 to CHF 8,300 per m², a change of +108 percent. That is the market, not your property: a flat renovated in the meantime followed a different curve entirely.
Enough properties change hands in Chavornay each year to keep the price data steady. Estimates land in a narrower range here, and a valuation can lean on recent comparable sales instead of falling back on the cantonal average. Before you settle on a price in Chavornay, get a number that reflects your own property rather than the commune. It takes a few minutes, and it changes what you are able to defend in a negotiation.
Building stock data: Federal Register of Buildings and Dwellings, FSO, updated August 3, 2026
Market data updated on August 24, 2026
A range set against the price levels of your commune and the profile of your property.
Value my property →The median flat in Chavornay is priced at CHF 7,900 per m². That puts the commune 14 percent from the Vaud 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 7,300 per m² for a house in Chavornay. 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.
16 percent of homes in Chavornay 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.