Niedergesteln
Municipality in the canton of Valais · FSO no. 6198
Parcel data from Jul 2025, statistics computed on 26 Sept 2026.
Open map at the Niedergesteln center
Canton only partly covered
The parcel data covers only about 51% of the area of the canton of Valais, so the figures for Niedergesteln may be incomplete as well.
The parcel data lists 2’953 parcels in Niedergesteln, covering 6 km². 16.7% of them have at least one registered building. The median parcel measures 488 m².
Key figures
- Parcels
- 2’953
- 0.5% of the canton
- Total area
- 6 km²
0.2% of the canton
- Median area
- 488 m²
Canton: 511 m²
Switzerland: 870 m²
- Built share
- 16.7%
Canton: 26.2%
Switzerland: 52%
- Median year built
- 1980
Canton: 1980
Switzerland: 1976
About Niedergesteln
Niedergesteln is a municipality in the canton of Valais.
Among the parcels in the data, the most common zones are LANDWIRTSCHAFT-2P (35.4%), LANDWIRTSCHAFT-1P (18.1%) and WALD (12.3%).
According to the building register, Niedergesteln has 652 buildings with 428 dwellings, 0.7 dwellings per building on average. Most residential buildings are single-family houses (73.5%). Non-residential buildings account for 54.4% of all buildings.
Among the built parcels in the data, the newest building most often dates from before 1920 (31.8%), and on 22.7% of them it dates from 2001 or later. The median year built is 1980.
Built and unbuilt parcels
Built: 493 (16.7%)Unbuilt: 2’460 (83.3%)
Parcels by zone
| Zone | Parcels | Area | Built |
|---|---|---|---|
| LANDWIRTSCHAFT-2P | 1’046 | 0.88 km² | 5.1% |
| LANDWIRTSCHAFT-1P | 534 | 0.85 km² | 2.4% |
| WALD | 364 | 1.91 km² | 5.2% |
| UBRIGES GEMEINDEGEBIET | 188 | 1.72 km² | 6.9% |
| W3 | 139 | 0.11 km² | 59.0% |
| W2 | 136 | 0.08 km² | 63.2% |
| DORFKERNZONE | 98 | 0.01 km² | 64.3% |
| INDUSTRIE-GEWERBE-RESERVE | 69 | 0.18 km² | 8.7% |
| FERIENHAUSZONE | 56 | 0.02 km² | 7.1% |
| REBZONE | 49 | 0.02 km² | 4.1% |
| DORFKERN mit spez. Vorschriften | 47 | 0.01 km² | 72.3% |
| DORFZONE | 39 | < 0.01 km² | 56.4% |
| Other zones (12 labels) | 188 | 0.20 km² | 51.1% |
Zone names are the municipal designations. A canton lists each wording separately.
Building stock
The building register lists 652 buildings with 428 dwellings here; 214 of them are single-family houses.
- Buildings
- 652
- Dwellings
- 428
- Single-family houses
- 214
- Building volume
- 415’381 m³
Buildings by category
Construction periods
Built parcels by construction period of their newest buildingMaps and geodata for Niedergesteln
geopool works as a GIS and geoportal for Niedergesteln. 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.