Buchrain: observed built density
Municipality in the canton of Lucerne · FSO no. 1052 · Parcel data as of July 2025
- Parcels
- 1’478
1 % of the canton
- Municipal zones
- 26
- Median utilization
- 85 %
Canton: 49 %
Switzerland: 10 %
- Median GFZ
- 0.38
Canton: 0.13
Switzerland: 0.09
- Median height
- -
Canton: -
Switzerland: 9.5 m
- Median floors
- 2.4
Canton: 2.4
Switzerland: 2.3
About Buchrain
Buchrain is a municipality in the canton of Lucerne. The parcel data lists 1’478 parcels in 26 municipal zone types. The zone types with the most parcels are Wohnzone C (709), Wohnzone A (115) and Landwirtschaftszone (104).
The median parcel is built to a volume utilization of 85 %; half of the parcels lie between 10 % and 121 %. The canton median is 49 %, so Buchrain sits above it.
Parcels built in the last 20 years reach a mean volume utilization of 148 % (329 parcels), higher than the 121 % across all building years.
Parcels by municipal zone
| Zone | Parcels | Median utilization |
|---|---|---|
| Wohnzone C | 709 | 98 % |
| Wohnzone A | 115 | 86 % |
| Landwirtschaftszone | 104 | 0 % |
| Wohnzone B | 96 | 82 % |
| Erhaltungszone Wohnen | 95 | 107 % |
| Arbeitszone A | 72 | 52 % |
| Verkehrszone | 67 | 0 % |
| Wald | 57 | 0 % |
| Dorfkernzone Haslirain | 23 | 77 % |
| Dorfkernzone Buchrain Dorf | 16 | 93 % |
| Wohn- und Arbeitszone A | 15 | 27 % |
| Zone fuer Sport- und Freizeitanlagen | 14 | 0 % |
| Other zones (14) | 95 | - |
Volume utilization (ratioV)
Of the 1’451 parcels with a value, half lie between 10 % and 121 %. The median is 85 % and the mean 102 %.
Share of parcels by range
- below 50 %30 %
- 50 % to below 100 %33 %
- 100 % to below 150 %22 %
- 150 % and above14 %
Floor-area ratio (GFZ)
Of the 1’450 parcels with a value, half lie between 0.09 and 0.61. The median is 0.38 and the mean 0.43.
Share of parcels by range
- below 0.5065 %
- 0.50 to below 1.0028 %
- 1.00 to below 1.505 %
- 1.50 and above1 %
Building height
The parcel data has too few values for this measure here.
Number of floors
Of the 880 parcels with a value, half lie between 1.9 and 3.1. The median is 2.4 and the mean 2.6.
Share of parcels by range
- below 27 %
- 2 to below 345 %
- 3 to below 544 %
- 5 and above4 %
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 | 1’478 | 121 % |
| Last 60 years | 1’016 | 142 % |
| Last 40 years | 764 | 135 % |
| Last 20 years | 329 | 148 % |
| Last 15 years | 195 | 175 % |
| Last 10 years | 113 | 229 % |
| Last 5 years | 64 | 288 % |
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).