Muolen
Municipality in the canton of St. Gallen · FSO no. 3202
Parcel data from Jul 2025, statistics computed on 26 Sept 2026.
The parcel data lists 894 parcels in Muolen, covering 10.3 km². 45.6% of them have at least one registered building. The median parcel measures 2’514 m².
Key figures
- Parcels
- 894
- 0.5% of the canton
- Total area
- 10.3 km²
0.5% of the canton
- Median area
- 2’514 m²
Canton: 938 m²
Switzerland: 870 m²
- Built share
- 45.6%
Canton: 66.6%
Switzerland: 52%
- Median year built
- 1983
Canton: 1977
Switzerland: 1976
About Muolen
Muolen is a municipality in the canton of St. Gallen and holds 0.5% of the canton's parcels in the data, on 0.5% of their area. The median parcel in Muolen measures 2’514 m², larger than the canton median of 938 m². Muolen is less built-up than the canton as a whole: 45.6% of its parcels have a building, against 66.6% across the canton.
The zones with the most parcels are BauG Landwirtschaftszone (54.3%), Hinweis.Wald (15.4%) and BauG Wohnzone W2a (8.5%). In total, Muolen uses 13 zone designations.
According to the building register, Muolen has 809 buildings with 561 dwellings, 0.7 dwellings per building on average. Most residential buildings are single-family houses (75.2%). Non-residential buildings account for 50.7% of all buildings.
Built parcels most often have their newest building from 1981 to 2000 (26.2% of them), and 29.9% have one from 2001 or later. The median year built, 1983, is more recent than in the canton as a whole (1977).
Built and unbuilt parcels
Built: 408 (45.6%)Unbuilt: 486 (54.4%)
Parcels by zone
| Zone | Parcels | Area | Built |
|---|---|---|---|
| BauG_Landwirtschaftszone | 485 | 9.13 km² | 37.9% |
| Hinweis.Wald | 138 | 0.44 km² | 2.2% |
| BauG_Wohnzone W2a | 76 | 0.06 km² | 94.7% |
| BauG_Wohnzone W2b | 55 | 0.05 km² | 83.6% |
| BauG_Kernzone K2 | 48 | 0.04 km² | 95.8% |
| BauG_Wohn-Gewerbezone WG2 | 30 | 0.05 km² | 83.3% |
| BauG_Gewerbe-Industriezone GI A | 14 | 0.05 km² | 85.7% |
| BauG_Weilerzone | 14 | 0.01 km² | 85.7% |
| Hinweis.Verkehrsflaeche aB | 14 | 0.16 km² | 14.3% |
| Hinweis.Verkehrsflaeche iB | 7 | 0.05 km² | 0.0% |
| BauG_Zone für öffentliche Bauten und Anlagen | 6 | 0.02 km² | 83.3% |
| BauG_übriges Gemeindegebiet allg | 4 | 0.01 km² | 0.0% |
| BauG_Grünzone Naturschutz ausserhalb Baugebiet | 3 | 0.25 km² | 33.3% |
Zone names are the municipal designations. A canton lists each wording separately.
Building stock
The building register lists 809 buildings with 561 dwellings here; 261 of them are single-family houses.
- Buildings
- 809
- Dwellings
- 561
- Single-family houses
- 261
- Building volume
- 1.3 million m³
Buildings by category
Construction periods
Built parcels by construction period of their newest buildingMaps and geodata for Muolen
geopool works as a GIS and geoportal for Muolen. 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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