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Tafers: observed built density

Municipality in the canton of Fribourg · FSO no. 2306 · Parcel data as of July 2025

The parcel data covers only part of the land in the canton of Fribourg, so figures here may be incomplete.

Parcels
1’868

2 % of the canton

Municipal zones
28
Median utilization
88 %

Canton: 86 %

Switzerland: 10 %

Median GFZ
0.39

Canton: 0.36

Switzerland: 0.09

Median height
8.9 m

Canton: 8.9 m

Switzerland: 9.5 m

Median floors
2.2

Canton: 2.3

Switzerland: 2.3

About Tafers

Tafers is a municipality in the canton of Fribourg. The parcel data lists 1’868 parcels in 28 municipal zone types. The zone types with the most parcels are Wohnzone schwacher Dichte (1’076), Wohnzone swacher Dichte (137) and Wohnzone mittlerer Dichte (115).

The median parcel is built to a volume utilization of 88 %; half of the parcels lie between 60 % and 119 %. The canton median is 86 %, close to the level of Tafers.

The median building height is 8.9 m at 2.2 floors, and the median floor-area ratio (GFZ) is 0.39. Parcels built in the last 20 years reach a mean volume utilization of 110 % (449 parcels), higher than the 94 % across all building years.

Parcels by municipal zone

Municipal zone types with their parcel count and median volume utilization
ZoneParcelsMedian utilization
Wohnzone schwacher Dichte1’07688 %
Wohnzone swacher Dichte13781 %
Wohnzone mittlerer Dichte115104 %
Mischzone 110865 %
Kernzone6649 %
Weilerzone (Kernzone)66100 %
Mischzone54124 %
Dorfzone Rohr45111 %
Zentrumszone24148 %
Arbeitszone2091 %
lndustriezone2086 %
Zone von allgemeinem lnteresse1745 %
Other zones (15)120-

Volume utilization (ratioV)

Of the 1’828 parcels with a value, half lie between 60 % and 119 %. The median is 88 % and the mean 90 %.

0 %300 %+

Share of parcels by range

  • below 50 %21 %
  • 50 % to below 100 %40 %
  • 100 % to below 150 %27 %
  • 150 % and above12 %

Floor-area ratio (GFZ)

Of the 1’827 parcels with a value, half lie between 0.26 and 0.56. The median is 0.39 and the mean 0.42.

0.003.00+

Share of parcels by range

  • below 0.5069 %
  • 0.50 to below 1.0027 %
  • 1.00 to below 1.504 %
  • 1.50 and above1 %

Building height

Of the 1’422 parcels with a value, half lie between 7.6 m and 10.3 m. The median is 8.9 m and the mean 9.1 m.

0 m60 m+

Share of parcels by range

  • below 8 m30 %
  • 8 m to below 12 m61 %
  • 12 m to below 20 m8 %
  • 20 m and above< 1 %

Number of floors

Of the 1’199 parcels with a value, half lie between 1.8 and 2.8. The median is 2.2 and the mean 2.3.

016+

Share of parcels by range

  • below 27 %
  • 2 to below 358 %
  • 3 to below 534 %
  • 5 and above1 %

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 inParcelsMean utilization
All years1’86894 %
Last 60 years1’301104 %
Last 40 years1’019110 %
Last 20 years449110 %
Last 15 years307115 %
Last 10 years152130 %
Last 5 years67119 %

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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).