Saas-Balen
Municipality in the canton of Valais · FSO no. 6289
Parcel data from Jul 2025, statistics computed on 26 Sept 2026.
Open map at the Saas-Balen center
Canton only partly covered
The parcel data covers only about 51% of the area of the canton of Valais, so the figures for Saas-Balen may be incomplete as well.
The parcel data lists 813 parcels in Saas-Balen, covering 234’479 m². 39.1% of them have at least one registered building. The median parcel measures 140 m².
Key figures
- Parcels
- 813
- 0.1% of the canton
- Total area
- 234’479 m²
< 0.1% of the canton
- Median area
- 140 m²
Canton: 511 m²
Switzerland: 870 m²
- Built share
- 39.1%
Canton: 26.2%
Switzerland: 52%
- Median year built
- 1932
Canton: 1980
Switzerland: 1976
About Saas-Balen
Saas-Balen is a municipality in the canton of Valais.
Among the parcels in the data, the most common zones are Dorfzone (33.8%), Wohnzone W3 (30.1%) and Landschafltich empfindliches Baugebiet W2 B (7.4%).
According to the building register, Saas-Balen has 592 buildings with 471 dwellings, 0.8 dwellings per building on average. Residential buildings mix single-family houses and buildings with several dwellings: single-family houses make up 36.5% of them. Non-residential buildings account for 60.8% of all buildings.
Among the built parcels in the data, the newest building most often dates from before 1920 (46.2%), and on 4.4% of them it dates from 2001 or later. The median year built is 1932.
Built and unbuilt parcels
Built: 318 (39.1%)Unbuilt: 495 (60.9%)
Parcels by zone
| Zone | Parcels | Area | Built |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dorfzone | 275 | 0.03 km² | 57.8% |
| Wohnzone W3 | 245 | 0.09 km² | 29.0% |
| Landschafltich empfindliches Baugebiet W2 B | 60 | 0.02 km² | 21.7% |
| Wohzone W3 A | 45 | 0.01 km² | 35.6% |
| Landschafltich empfindliches Baugebiet W2 A | 43 | 0.01 km² | 14.0% |
| Wohnzone W4 | 29 | 0.01 km² | 17.2% |
| Landschaftlich empfindliches Baugebiet W2 A | 27 | 0.01 km² | 14.8% |
| Camping | 24 | < 0.01 km² | 95.8% |
| Wohnzone W2 | 20 | 0.01 km² | 20.0% |
| Wohzone W4 | 9 | 0.01 km² | 66.7% |
| Öfentliche Bauten und Anlagen | 8 | < 0.01 km² | 25.0% |
| Wald (provisorisch) | 7 | < 0.01 km² | 0.0% |
| Other zones (6 labels) | 21 | 0.02 km² | 42.9% |
Zone names are the municipal designations. A canton lists each wording separately.
Building stock
The building register lists 592 buildings with 471 dwellings here; 72 of them are single-family houses.
- Buildings
- 592
- Dwellings
- 471
- Single-family houses
- 72
- Building volume
- 225’686 m³
Buildings by category
Construction periods
Built parcels by construction period of their newest buildingMaps and geodata for Saas-Balen
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