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Canton of Basel-Landschaft

Canton · 86 municipalities with parcel data

Parcel data from Jul 2025, statistics computed on 26 Sept 2026.

The parcel data lists 126’611 parcels in the canton of Basel-Landschaft, covering 498.7 km². 56.7% of them have at least one registered building. The median parcel measures 690 m².

Key figures

Parcels
126’611
3.6% of Switzerland
Total area
498.7 km²

1.5% of Switzerland

Median area
690 m²

Switzerland: 870 m²

Built share
56.7%

Switzerland: 52%

Median year built
1979

Switzerland: 1976

About the canton of Basel-Landschaft

The canton of Basel-Landschaft ranks 14th of the 22 cantons with largely complete parcel data by total parcel area. Of its 86 municipalities with parcel data, Reinach (BL) (5’931), Allschwil (5’096) and Muttenz (4’953) have the most parcels, which together hold 12.6% of the canton's parcels.

The median parcel in the canton measures 690 m², smaller than the Swiss median of 870 m². The canton is about as built-up as Switzerland as a whole: 56.7% of its parcels have a building, against 52% nationwide. Among its municipalities with at least 500 parcels, Birsfelden has the highest share of built parcels (87%) and Rothenfluh the lowest (17.2%). Zeglingen has the largest median parcel (2’820 m²) and Reinach (BL) the smallest (350 m²).

According to the building register, a building in the canton holds 1.3 dwellings on average, against 1.6 across Switzerland. Most residential buildings are single-family houses (73.4%, against 63.5% across Switzerland). Non-residential buildings account for 31.1% of all buildings.

Built parcels most often have their newest building from 1961 to 1980 (26.7% of them), and 21.1% have one from 2001 or later. The median year built, 1979, is close to that of Switzerland as a whole (1976).

Built and unbuilt parcels

Built: 71’733 (56.7%)Unbuilt: 54’878 (43.3%)

Parcels by zone

Parcels by zone, the 12 largest zones first
ZoneParcels
Landwirtschaftszone21’747181.35 km²13.6%
Wohnzone W28’5275.19 km²85.5%
Strasse innerhalb ZPS6’7049.33 km²4.7%
Wald5’891133.23 km²6.6%
Wohnzone W2b4’3942.02 km²89.0%
Strasse ausserhalb ZPS3’96310.33 km²1.5%
Wohnzone W13’5832.45 km²86.7%
Wohnzone W2a3’1101.87 km²86.4%
W23’1011.52 km²84.1%
Kernzone2’5481.39 km²81.9%
Wohnzone W22’4371.19 km²88.6%
Waldareal2’27952.40 km²6.7%
Other zones (683 labels)58’32796.39 km²75.4%

Zone names are the municipal designations. A canton lists each wording separately.

Building stock

The building register lists 116’865 buildings with 152’723 dwellings here; 49’276 of them are single-family houses.

Buildings
116’865
Dwellings
152’723
Single-family houses
49’276
Building volume
148.9 million m³

Buildings by category

  • Residential67’163
  • Mixed use1’467
  • Non-residential36’397
  • Other11’838

Construction periods

Built parcels by construction period of their newest building
  • Before 19206’471
  • 1920-19454’429
  • 1946-19607’092
  • 1961-198019’157
  • 1981-200017’589
  • 2001-20107’264
  • 2011-20205’609
  • 2021 and later2’281
  • Unknown year1’841

Maps and geodata for the canton of Basel-Landschaft

geopool works as a GIS and geoportal for the canton of Basel-Landschaft. Its parcel map shows the parcels of the official cadastral survey with their area, their zone from the municipal zoning plan and their buildings, on swisstopo maps. Building zones, the property map and the geodata of each parcel open on the geopool map. The ÖREB extract of a parcel (public-law restrictions on landownership) is in lookup.

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