Berken

Berken is a municipality in the canton of Bern and holds less than 0.1% of the canton's parcels in the data, on less than 0.1% of their area. The median parcel in Berken measures 5’482 m², larger than the canton median of 1’126 m². Berken is less built-up than the canton as a whole: 20.2% of its parcels have a building, against 57.8% across the canton.

The zones with the most parcels are Landwirtschaftszone (51.9%), uebriges Gebiet (32.6%) and Kiesabbau- und Ablagerungszone Sektor A (9.3%). In total, Berken uses 5 zone designations.

According to the building register, Berken has 69 buildings with 23 dwellings, 0.3 dwellings per building on average. Most residential buildings are single-family houses (77.8%). Non-residential buildings account for 62.3% of all buildings.

Built parcels most often have their newest building from before 1920 (23.1% of them), and 15.4% have one from 2001 or later. The median year built, 1956, is earlier than in the canton as a whole (1975).