Uznach
Municipality in the canton of St. Gallen · FSO no. 3339
Parcel data from Jul 2025, statistics computed on 26 Sept 2026.
The parcel data lists 1’625 parcels in Uznach, covering 7.5 km². 80.7% of them have at least one registered building. The median parcel measures 726 m².
Key figures
- Parcels
- 1’625
- 0.9% of the canton
- Total area
- 7.5 km²
0.4% of the canton
- Median area
- 726 m²
Canton: 938 m²
Switzerland: 870 m²
- Built share
- 80.7%
Canton: 66.6%
Switzerland: 52%
- Median year built
- 1988
Canton: 1977
Switzerland: 1976
About Uznach
Uznach is a municipality in the canton of St. Gallen and holds 0.9% of the canton's parcels in the data, on 0.4% of their area. The median parcel in Uznach measures 726 m², smaller than the canton median of 938 m². Uznach is more built-up than the canton as a whole: 80.7% of its parcels have a building, against 66.6% across the canton.
The zones with the most parcels are BauG Wohnzone W2a (33.4%), BauG Wohnzone W2 (18.5%) and BauG Wohn-Gewerbezone WG3 (9.6%). In total, Uznach uses 25 zone designations.
According to the building register, Uznach has 2’181 buildings with 3’132 dwellings, 1.4 dwellings per building on average. Most residential buildings are single-family houses (64.5%). Non-residential buildings account for 35.7% of all buildings.
Built parcels most often have their newest building from 1981 to 2000 (31.1% of them), and 25.3% have one from 2001 or later. The median year built, 1988, is more recent than in the canton as a whole (1977).
Built and unbuilt parcels
Built: 1’312 (80.7%)Unbuilt: 313 (19.3%)
Parcels by zone
| Zone | Parcels | Area | Built |
|---|---|---|---|
| BauG_Wohnzone W2a | 542 | 0.42 km² | 85.2% |
| BauG_Wohnzone W2 | 301 | 0.21 km² | 89.0% |
| BauG_Wohn-Gewerbezone WG3 | 156 | 0.21 km² | 90.4% |
| BauG_Landwirtschaftszone | 129 | 2.59 km² | 64.3% |
| BauG_Kernzone Altstadt | 72 | 0.03 km² | 84.7% |
| BauG_Wohn-Gewerbezone WG2 | 72 | 0.08 km² | 88.9% |
| BauG_Wohnzone W3 | 63 | 0.08 km² | 87.3% |
| BauG_übriges Gemeindegebiet allg | 40 | 0.48 km² | 47.5% |
| BauG_Gewerbe-Industriezone GI B | 31 | 0.15 km² | 74.2% |
| BauG_Gewerbe-Industriezone GI C | 30 | 0.09 km² | 93.3% |
| BauG_Grünzone vor III Nachtrag zu BauG | 30 | 0.39 km² | 43.3% |
| BauG_Zone für öffentliche Bauten und Anlagen | 29 | 0.32 km² | 86.2% |
| Other zones (13 labels) | 130 | 2.48 km² | 53.8% |
Zone names are the municipal designations. A canton lists each wording separately.
Building stock
The building register lists 2’181 buildings with 3’132 dwellings here; 778 of them are single-family houses.
- Buildings
- 2’181
- Dwellings
- 3’132
- Single-family houses
- 778
- Building volume
- 3.6 million m³
Buildings by category
Construction periods
Built parcels by construction period of their newest buildingMaps and geodata for Uznach
geopool works as a GIS and geoportal for Uznach. 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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