Murten
Municipality in the canton of Fribourg · FSO no. 2275
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, so the figures for Murten may be incomplete as well.
The parcel data lists 2’560 parcels in Murten, covering 3.2 km². 85.6% of them have at least one registered building. The median parcel measures 730 m².
Key figures
- Parcels
- 2’560
- 3.1% of the canton
- Total area
- 3.2 km²
2.6% of the canton
- Median area
- 730 m²
Canton: 834 m²
Switzerland: 870 m²
- Built share
- 85.6%
Canton: 84.3%
Switzerland: 52%
- Median year built
- 1988
Canton: 1993
Switzerland: 1976
About Murten
Murten is a municipality in the canton of Fribourg.
Among the parcels in the data, the most common zones are Wohnzone schwacher Besiedlungsdichte Il (18.8%), Dorfzone (12.6%) and Kernzone 1 (9%).
According to the building register, Murten has 4’717 buildings with 4’933 dwellings, 1.0 dwellings per building on average. Most residential buildings are single-family houses (61.6%). Non-residential buildings account for 44.2% of all buildings.
Among the built parcels in the data, the newest building most often dates from 1981 to 2000 (25.7%), and on 27.2% of them it dates from 2001 or later. The median year built is 1988.
Built and unbuilt parcels
Built: 2’191 (85.6%)Unbuilt: 369 (14.4%)
Parcels by zone
| Zone | Parcels | Area | Built |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wohnzone schwacher Besiedlungsdichte Il | 480 | 0.31 km² | 93.8% |
| Dorfzone | 323 | 0.41 km² | 85.1% |
| Kernzone 1 | 231 | 0.06 km² | 90.0% |
| Wohnzone schwacher Besiedlungsdichte 1 | 225 | 0.18 km² | 93.8% |
| Wohnzone mittlerer Besiedlungsdichte | 211 | 0.27 km² | 88.6% |
| Kernzone III | 147 | 0.16 km² | 91.8% |
| Kernzone Il | 132 | 0.15 km² | 84.1% |
| Wohnzone III | 99 | 0.08 km² | 86.9% |
| Mischzone | 89 | 0.13 km² | 98.9% |
| Wohnzone schwacher Besiedlungsdichte III | 89 | 0.08 km² | 94.4% |
| Arbeitszone 1 | 84 | 0.28 km² | 76.2% |
| Wohnzone | 62 | 0.06 km² | 79.0% |
| Other zones (45 labels) | 388 | 1.00 km² | 62.6% |
Zone names are the municipal designations. A canton lists each wording separately.
Building stock
The building register lists 4’717 buildings with 4’933 dwellings here; 1’302 of them are single-family houses.
- Buildings
- 4’717
- Dwellings
- 4’933
- Single-family houses
- 1’302
- Building volume
- 4.4 million m³
Buildings by category
Construction periods
Built parcels by construction period of their newest buildingMaps and geodata for Murten
geopool works as a GIS and geoportal for Murten. 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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