Mendrisio
Municipality in the canton of Ticino · FSO no. 5254
Parcel data from Jul 2025, statistics computed on 26 Sept 2026.
Open map at the Mendrisio center
Partial parcel data
The parcel data holds only 2’403 built parcels here, while the building register lists 4’009 residential and mixed-use buildings. The parcel figures below are therefore likely incomplete.
Canton only partly covered
The parcel data covers only about 35% of the area of the canton of Ticino, so the figures for Mendrisio may be incomplete as well.
The parcel data lists 6’495 parcels in Mendrisio, covering 21.5 km². 37% of them have at least one registered building. The median parcel measures 933 m².
Key figures
- Parcels
- 6’495
- 4.1% of the canton
- Total area
- 21.5 km²
2.2% of the canton
- Median area
- 933 m²
Canton: 708 m²
Switzerland: 870 m²
- Built share
- 37%
Canton: 52%
Switzerland: 52%
- Median year built
- 1965
Canton: 1965
Switzerland: 1976
About Mendrisio
Mendrisio is a municipality in the canton of Ticino.
Among the parcels in the data, the most common zones are Zona Forestale (12.8%), Zona agricola (10.6%) and Area forestale (9.3%).
According to the building register, Mendrisio has 6’507 buildings with 9’469 dwellings, 1.5 dwellings per building on average. Most residential buildings are single-family houses (61.6%). Non-residential buildings account for 38.4% of all buildings.
Among the built parcels in the data, the newest building most often dates from 1920 to 1945 (20.1%), and on 17.6% of them it dates from 2001 or later. The median year built is 1965.
Built and unbuilt parcels
Built: 2’403 (37%)Unbuilt: 4’092 (63%)
Parcels by zone
| Zone | Parcels | Area | Built |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zona Forestale | 829 | 4.70 km² | 10.6% |
| Zona agricola | 687 | 1.57 km² | 26.6% |
| Area forestale | 601 | 6.24 km² | 5.0% |
| Zona residenziale estensiva | 538 | 0.42 km² | 76.2% |
| Area forestale indicativa | 440 | 1.81 km² | 2.3% |
| Zona nucleo di villaggio | 247 | 0.05 km² | 55.9% |
| SAC Superfici per l'avvicendamento colturale | 228 | 0.75 km² | 14.0% |
| Zona del nucleo | 228 | 0.05 km² | 60.5% |
| Zona edificabile semi-intensiva | 198 | 0.16 km² | 81.3% |
| Altri territori idonei all'agricoltura | 151 | 0.68 km² | 31.8% |
| Residenziale estensiva | 144 | 0.15 km² | 68.8% |
| Zona residenziale semintensiva | 128 | 0.12 km² | 84.4% |
| Other zones (95 labels) | 2’076 | 4.83 km² | 46.1% |
Zone names are the municipal designations. A canton lists each wording separately.
Building stock
The building register lists 6’507 buildings with 9’469 dwellings here; 2’417 of them are single-family houses.
- Buildings
- 6’507
- Dwellings
- 9’469
- Single-family houses
- 2’417
- Building volume
- 3.6 million m³
Buildings by category
Construction periods
Built parcels by construction period of their newest buildingMaps and geodata for Mendrisio
geopool works as a GIS and geoportal for Mendrisio. 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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