Ottenbach
Municipality in the canton of Zurich · FSO no. 11
Parcel data from Jul 2025, statistics computed on 26 Sept 2026.
Open map at the Ottenbach center
The parcel data lists 1’260 parcels in Ottenbach, covering 5 km². 64.4% of them have at least one registered building. The median parcel measures 756 m².
Key figures
- Parcels
- 1’260
- 0.3% of the canton
- Total area
- 5 km²
0.3% of the canton
- Median area
- 756 m²
Canton: 814 m²
Switzerland: 870 m²
- Built share
- 64.4%
Canton: 56.8%
Switzerland: 52%
- Median year built
- 1984
Canton: 1977
Switzerland: 1976
About Ottenbach
Ottenbach is a municipality in the canton of Zurich and holds 0.3% of the canton's parcels on 0.3% of its area. The median parcel in Ottenbach measures 756 m², about the same as the canton median of 814 m². Ottenbach is more built-up than the canton as a whole: 64.4% of its parcels have a building, against 56.8% across the canton.
The zones with the most parcels are Wohnzone 2B (28.1%), Kernzone (23.9%) and Kantonale Landwirtschaftszone (19.6%). In total, Ottenbach uses 13 zone designations.
According to the building register, Ottenbach has 1’311 buildings with 1’405 dwellings, 1.1 dwellings per building on average. Most residential buildings are single-family houses (77.3%). Non-residential buildings account for 37.1% of all buildings.
Built parcels most often have their newest building from 1981 to 2000 (37.4% of them), and 21.6% have one from 2001 or later. The median year built, 1984, is more recent than in the canton as a whole (1977).
Built and unbuilt parcels
Built: 811 (64.4%)Unbuilt: 449 (35.6%)
Parcels by zone
| Zone | Parcels | Area | Built |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wohnzone 2B | 354 | 0.25 km² | 82.8% |
| Kernzone | 301 | 0.21 km² | 78.4% |
| Kantonale Landwirtschaftszone | 247 | 2.98 km² | 22.7% |
| Wohnzone G2 | 122 | 0.09 km² | 84.4% |
| Wohnzone 2A | 96 | 0.09 km² | 84.4% |
| Wald | 62 | 1.01 km² | 11.3% |
| Reservezone | 38 | 0.11 km² | 28.9% |
| Gewerbezone | 15 | 0.03 km² | 73.3% |
| Gewässer | 6 | 0.14 km² | 33.3% |
| Wohnzone 3 | 6 | 0.03 km² | 66.7% |
| Zone für öffentliche Bauten | 5 | 0.05 km² | 40.0% |
| kommunale Freihaltezone | 5 | 0.01 km² | 40.0% |
| Kantonale Freihaltezone | 3 | 0.02 km² | 100.0% |
Zone names are the municipal designations. A canton lists each wording separately.
Building stock
The building register lists 1’311 buildings with 1’405 dwellings here; 585 of them are single-family houses.
- Buildings
- 1’311
- Dwellings
- 1’405
- Single-family houses
- 585
- Building volume
- 1.3 million m³
Buildings by category
Construction periods
Built parcels by construction period of their newest buildingMaps and geodata for Ottenbach
geopool works as a GIS and geoportal for Ottenbach. 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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