Gommiswald
Municipality in the canton of St. Gallen · FSO no. 3341
Parcel data from Jul 2025, statistics computed on 26 Sept 2026.
Open map at the Gommiswald center
The parcel data lists 2’603 parcels in Gommiswald, covering 33.6 km². 73.5% of them have at least one registered building. The median parcel measures 908 m².
Key figures
- Parcels
- 2’603
- 1.4% of the canton
- Total area
- 33.6 km²
1.8% of the canton
- Median area
- 908 m²
Canton: 938 m²
Switzerland: 870 m²
- Built share
- 73.5%
Canton: 66.6%
Switzerland: 52%
- Median year built
- 1985
Canton: 1977
Switzerland: 1976
About Gommiswald
Gommiswald is a municipality in the canton of St. Gallen and holds 1.4% of the canton's parcels in the data, on 1.8% of their area. The median parcel in Gommiswald measures 908 m², about the same as the canton median of 938 m². Gommiswald is more built-up than the canton as a whole: 73.5% of its parcels have a building, against 66.6% across the canton.
The zones with the most parcels are Wohnzone niedrige Dichte (45.6%), Landwirtschaftszone (25.1%) and Hinweis.Wald (6.3%). In total, Gommiswald uses 21 zone designations.
According to the building register, Gommiswald has 3’088 buildings with 2’912 dwellings, 0.9 dwellings per building on average. Most residential buildings are single-family houses (72.6%). Non-residential buildings account for 40.4% of all buildings.
Built parcels most often have their newest building from 1981 to 2000 (34% of them), and 22.9% have one from 2001 or later. The median year built, 1985, is more recent than in the canton as a whole (1977).
Built and unbuilt parcels
Built: 1’912 (73.5%)Unbuilt: 691 (26.5%)
Parcels by zone
| Zone | Parcels | Area | Built |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wohnzone niedrige Dichte | 1’187 | 0.94 km² | 90.7% |
| Landwirtschaftszone | 654 | 21.91 km² | 68.7% |
| Hinweis.Wald | 165 | 9.30 km² | 18.2% |
| Kernzone | 137 | 0.08 km² | 94.9% |
| Wohn_Gewerbe_Zone niedrige Dichte | 129 | 0.13 km² | 82.9% |
| Hinweis.Verkehrsflaeche iB | 93 | 0.16 km² | 0.0% |
| Schutzzone Natur- und Heimatschutz aB | 57 | 0.59 km² | 8.8% |
| Wohn_Gewerbe_Zone mittlere Dichte | 44 | 0.06 km² | 93.2% |
| Hinweis.Verkehrsflaeche aB | 43 | 0.14 km² | 4.7% |
| Arbeitszone | 25 | 0.07 km² | 88.0% |
| Zone für öffentliche Bauten und Anlagen | 25 | 0.08 km² | 80.0% |
| Wohnzone mittlere Dichte | 21 | 0.03 km² | 90.5% |
| Other zones (9 labels) | 23 | 0.09 km² | 43.5% |
Zone names are the municipal designations. A canton lists each wording separately.
Building stock
The building register lists 3’088 buildings with 2’912 dwellings here; 1’200 of them are single-family houses.
- Buildings
- 3’088
- Dwellings
- 2’912
- Single-family houses
- 1’200
- Building volume
- 3.4 million m³
Buildings by category
Construction periods
Built parcels by construction period of their newest buildingMaps and geodata for Gommiswald
geopool works as a GIS and geoportal for Gommiswald. 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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