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Canton of Fribourg

Canton · 117 municipalities with parcel data

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

Canton only partly covered

The parcel data covers only about 7% of the area of the canton of Fribourg. Totals, the median parcel area and the built share are therefore not representative of the canton.

Gaps in the parcel data

2 municipalities are missing from the current parcel data: Pierrafortscha and Villarsel-sur-Marly. Their pages show no parcel figures. 2 municipalities have partial parcel data and are marked in the table.

The parcel data lists 81’367 parcels in the canton of Fribourg, covering 122.5 km². 84.3% of them have at least one registered building. The median parcel measures 834 m².

Key figures

Parcels
81’367
2.3% of Switzerland
Total area
122.5 km²

0.4% of Switzerland

Median area
834 m²

Switzerland: 870 m²

Built share
84.3%

Switzerland: 52%

Median year built
1993

Switzerland: 1976

About the canton of Fribourg

Of its 117 municipalities with parcel data, Fribourg (3’532), Bulle (3’377) and Estavayer (2’746) have the most parcels.

According to the building register, a building in the canton's municipalities with parcel data holds 1.1 dwellings on average, against 1.6 across Switzerland. Most residential buildings are single-family houses (67.5%, against 63.5% across Switzerland). Non-residential buildings account for 43.1% of all buildings.

Among the built parcels in the data, the newest building most often dates from 1981 to 2000 (26.4%), and on 35.4% of them it dates from 2001 or later. The median year built is 1993.

Built and unbuilt parcels

Built: 68’628 (84.3%)Unbuilt: 12’739 (15.7%)

Parcels by zone

Parcels by zone, the 12 largest zones first
ZoneParcels
Zone résidentielle à faible densité12’90312.70 km²89.1%
Zone résidentielle faible densité4’2774.31 km²88.4%
Wohnzone schwacher Dichte4’1103.21 km²88.8%
Zone résidentielle à faible densité I3’8963.92 km²89.5%
Zone village2’4842.60 km²80.5%
Zone de centre2’2072.73 km²84.4%
Zone de centre village1’7651.94 km²84.4%
Zone résidentielle à moyenne densité1’3431.77 km²87.9%
Zone résidentielle à faible densité 21’1111.03 km²91.7%
Wohnzone niederer Dichte1’0570.76 km²88.8%
Zone de village1’0291.13 km²82.5%
Zone centre village1’0141.19 km²85.9%
Other zones (764 labels)44’17185.20 km²81.5%

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

Building stock

The building register lists 156’406 buildings with 171’918 dwellings here; 49’187 of them are single-family houses.

Buildings
156’406
Dwellings
171’918
Single-family houses
49’187
Building volume
148.8 million m³

Buildings by category

  • Residential72’818
  • Mixed use3’162
  • Non-residential67’410
  • Other13’016

Construction periods

Built parcels by construction period of their newest building
  • Before 19206’317
  • 1920-19452’578
  • 1946-19603’411
  • 1961-19809’452
  • 1981-200018’094
  • 2001-201011’803
  • 2011-20209’443
  • 2021 and later3’024
  • Unknown year4’506

Maps and geodata for the canton of Fribourg

geopool works as a GIS and geoportal for the canton of Fribourg. 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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