Adelboden: observed built density
Municipality in the canton of Bern · FSO no. 561 · Parcel data as of July 2025
- Parcels
- 3’802
1 % of the canton
- Municipal zones
- 14
- Median utilization
- 18 %
Canton: 32 %
Switzerland: 10 %
- Median GFZ
- 0.08
Canton: 0.09
Switzerland: 0.09
- Median height
- 8.6 m
Canton: 9.5 m
Switzerland: 9.5 m
- Median floors
- 2.4
Canton: 2.3
Switzerland: 2.3
About Adelboden
Adelboden is a municipality in the canton of Bern. The parcel data lists 3’802 parcels in 14 municipal zone types. The zone types with the most parcels are Landwirtschaftszone (2’506), Wohnzone 2-geschossig (916) and Dorfkernzone (109).
The median parcel is built to a volume utilization of 18 %; half of the parcels lie between 5 % and 96 %. The canton median is 32 %, so Adelboden sits below it.
The median building height is 8.6 m at 2.4 floors, and the median floor-area ratio (GFZ) is 0.08. Parcels built in the last 20 years reach a mean volume utilization of 200 % (189 parcels), higher than the 129 % across all building years.
Parcels by municipal zone
| Zone | Parcels | Median utilization |
|---|---|---|
| Landwirtschaftszone | 2’506 | 2 % |
| Wohnzone 2-geschossig | 916 | 71 % |
| Dorfkernzone | 109 | 93 % |
| Zone öffentlicher Nutzung | 80 | 12 % |
| Mischzone A 3-geschossig | 72 | 87 % |
| Arbeitszone | 51 | 66 % |
| Hotelzone | 29 | 525 % |
| Mischzone B 3-geschossig | 9 | 115 % |
| Bauernhofzone | 8 | 16 % |
| Zone für Sport- und Freizeitanlagen | 8 | 11 % |
| Erhaltungszone | 6 | 95 % |
| Grünzone | 6 | 20 % |
| Other zones (2) | 2 | - |
Volume utilization (ratioV)
Of the 3’772 parcels with a value, half lie between 5 % and 96 %. The median is 18 % and the mean 116 %.
Share of parcels by range
- below 50 %59 %
- 50 % to below 100 %17 %
- 100 % to below 150 %8 %
- 150 % and above16 %
Floor-area ratio (GFZ)
Of the 3’772 parcels with a value, half lie between 0.04 and 0.41. The median is 0.08 and the mean 0.24.
Share of parcels by range
- below 0.5081 %
- 0.50 to below 1.0015 %
- 1.00 to below 1.502 %
- 1.50 and above2 %
Building height
Of the 2’252 parcels with a value, half lie between 7.1 m and 9.9 m. The median is 8.6 m and the mean 8.8 m.
Share of parcels by range
- below 8 m39 %
- 8 m to below 12 m52 %
- 12 m to below 20 m9 %
- 20 m and above< 1 %
Number of floors
Of the 1’463 parcels with a value, half lie between 1.9 and 3.1. The median is 2.4 and the mean 2.5.
Share of parcels by range
- below 29 %
- 2 to below 345 %
- 3 to below 544 %
- 5 and above2 %
Building age cohorts
Mean volume utilization of the parcels built inside each window, from all years on record down to the last five. The windows overlap: the last 20 years include the last 5.
| Built in | Parcels | Mean utilization |
|---|---|---|
| All years | 3’802 | 129 % |
| Last 60 years | 876 | 205 % |
| Last 40 years | 542 | 193 % |
| Last 20 years | 189 | 200 % |
| Last 15 years | 133 | 191 % |
| Last 10 years | 74 | 203 % |
| Last 5 years | 39 | 157 % |
How to read this page
room shows observed built density: what has been built on the parcels, not what the zoning permits. Volume utilization (ratioV) compares the built volume of a parcel with the reference volume of its municipal zone type. The floor-area ratio (GFZ) is floor area divided by parcel area; building height and number of floors are taken from the buildings on a parcel. Figures pool all municipal zones of the area. Medians and quartiles are read from bins 10 points (ratioV), 0.1 (GFZ), 2 m (height) and 1 floor wide, so they are exact to within one bin; means are exact. A parcel counts in a distribution only when the parcel data has a value for it. The floors distribution leaves out parcels without a building (0 floors).