Why CooHood is needed

• 37%

  of private households are one-person households

  Living alone is the most common household

  More and more people live alone. Everyday help and a quick chat are often farther away than the next door.

  At the end of 2024 the FSO counted about 4.1 million private households. In more than a third (37%) only one person lives there – 17% of the permanent resident population. Living alone is not the same as loneliness. But a small favour, a borrowed tool or a conversation is easier to miss when nobody shares the home.

  What CooHood adds

  In CooHood, requests and offers stay in the hood, with a confirmed residential address. Neighbours can help or lend without a phone number and without anonymous listings across the country.

  Source: Federal Statistical Office (FSO), 2024 · Households and living arrangements. Open the original source

• 2.8 million t

  of food loss a year from Swiss consumption

  Good food still ends up as waste

  Food is lost along the whole chain. A large share would be avoidable – including at home.

  FOEN draws on the ZHAW monitoring (2025) and the earlier ETH Zurich study. That points to around 2.8 million tonnes of food loss a year, about 310 kg per person across the value chain. Some of it happens in households: leftovers, yesterday’s bread, food before the holidays.

  What CooHood adds

  With CooFrigo you can offer surplus in the hood instead of throwing it away. Pickup stays neighbourly and local.

  Source: Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN), 2025 · Food waste and loss. Open the original source

• 25.5%

  of the population is expected to be 65 or over in 2055

  Switzerland is getting older

  More people stay in a familiar neighbourhood. Digital help has to be simple, close and trustworthy.

  In the FSO reference scenario 2025–2055, the share of people aged 65 and over rises from 19.3% (2023) to 25.5% (2055). Their number grows from 1.7 to 2.7 million. Many want to stay in a familiar setting and need everyday help – not another complicated platform.

  What CooHood adds

  CooHood offers a senior view, spoken help requests and support in the hood – with a confirmed residential address, without sharing a phone number.

  Source: Federal Statistical Office (FSO), 2025 · Scenarios for the population of Switzerland. Open the original source

• 39.2%

  of people aged 15 and over did volunteer work in 2024

  Informal help is already widespread

  Millions of people already help unpaid – often invisibly and without a simple local channel.

  In 2024, 39.2% of the permanent resident population aged 15 and over said they had done volunteer work in the previous four weeks: about 2.9 million people, 3.9 hours a week on average. That includes informal help for people outside their own household.

  What CooHood adds

  CooSkills, CooTools and Free stuff make exactly this informal help visible: who can share time, a tool or an object – in their own hood.

  Source: Federal Statistical Office (FSO), 2024 · Voluntary work. Open the original source

The figures come from official, freely available federal sources. CooHood summarises them in plain language. The original publication remains authoritative. We do not infer any effect of the app on national statistics. Last checked: October 2, 2026.