A rail gateway to France at the foot of the Jura, Vallorbe combines industrial heritage, caves and prices among the lowest in the canton.
Flats in Vallorbe trade around CHF 6,100 per m², under the cantonal level. Cheaper communes tend to have wider spreads between streets, so a single average tells you less here than it would in a tighter market. Prices below the cantonal level move later and less than the top of the market. In practice a correction in Vaud reaches communes like this one with a delay, and so does a recovery.
Out of 132 communes measured in Vaud, Vallorbe sits at position 122. 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 Vallorbe at CHF 6,100 costs more than a house at CHF 5,600. Large houses spread their price across surface nobody pays the full rate for: corridors, cellars, attic space under the eaves.
Flat prices in Vallorbe are up 2.5 percent over twelve months. One year is a short window: measure it against the longer trajectory before you read it as a change of direction. Within the Jura-Nord vaudois district, Vallorbe lands 10 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 Vallorbe, 31 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.
The average home in Vallorbe has 3.5 rooms for 91 m². That ratio describes the shape of local demand better than the price does: many small rooms point to family housing, fewer and larger ones to conversions and new build. Half the flats sold in Vallorbe went above CHF 6,100 per m² and half below, which puts the commune 34 percent from the Vaud median. One exceptional sale barely moves a median, and that is why we use it instead of an average.
The 25-year record opens at CHF 4,000 and closes at CHF 8,000, +100 percent apart. Use it to sanity-check an estimate rather than to project forward, since nothing in the series promises the next decade repeats it. Transaction volume in Vallorbe 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.
Lower prices in Vallorbe do not make a valuation easier. The spread between properties is often wider here than in an expensive commune, which makes the commune average a weak guide to what yours is worth.
Building stock data: Federal Register of Buildings and Dwellings, FSO, updated August 3, 2026
Market data updated on August 24, 2026
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Value my property →The median flat in Vallorbe is priced at CHF 6,100 per m². That puts the commune 34 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.
Houses in Vallorbe are valued around CHF 5,600 per m² of living space. The plot weighs heavily on that figure, so two houses of identical size can be far apart in price if one has land around it and the other has none.
The dominant band in Vallorbe is before 1919, which covers 31 percent of homes. Average size runs to 3.5 rooms, so the commune is built mainly for households rather than for single occupants or short stays.