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Parcel statistics for Switzerland

26 cantons · 2’044 municipalities with parcel data

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

Gaps in the parcel data

66 municipalities are missing from the current parcel data. 16 municipalities have partial parcel data. In some cantons the parcels cover only part of the land (share of the canton area): Fribourg (7%), Jura (7%), Ticino (35%) and Valais (51%). The canton and municipality pages carry a notice where their figures are affected.

The parcel data lists 3’564’144 parcels in Switzerland, covering 32’923 km². 52% of them have at least one registered building. The median parcel measures 870 m².

Key figures

Parcels
3’564’144
Total area
32’923 km²
Median area
870 m²
Built share
52%
Median year built
1976

About Switzerland

Among the 22 cantons with largely complete parcel data, Bern (451’027), Zurich (388’937) and Aargau (294’789) have the most parcels. Of these cantons, Basel-Stadt has the highest share of built parcels (88%) and Graubünden the lowest (38.7%). Appenzell Innerrhoden has the largest median parcel (1’568 m²) and Basel-Stadt the smallest (343 m²).

According to the building register, a building in Switzerland holds 1.6 dwellings on average. Most residential buildings are single-family houses (63.5%). Non-residential buildings account for 38.9% of all buildings.

Built parcels most often have their newest building from 1981 to 2000 (22.6% of them), and 22.3% have one from 2001 or later. The median year built is 1976.

Built and unbuilt parcels

Built: 1’852’702 (52%)Unbuilt: 1’711’442 (48%)

Building stock

The building register lists 3’130’683 buildings with 4’860’453 dwellings here; 1’084’886 of them are single-family houses.

Buildings
3’130’683
Dwellings
4’860’453
Single-family houses
1’084’886
Building volume
4.5 billion m³

Buildings by category

  • Residential1’708’486
  • Mixed use76’511
  • Non-residential1’218’041
  • Other127’645

Construction periods

Built parcels by construction period of their newest building
  • Before 1920262’645
  • 1920-1945143’712
  • 1946-1960169’202
  • 1961-1980363’440
  • 1981-2000418’801
  • 2001-2010190’344
  • 2011-2020170’750
  • 2021 and later52’243
  • Unknown year81’565

Maps and geodata for Switzerland

geopool works as a GIS and geoportal for Switzerland. 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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