Emmen: observed built density
Municipality in the canton of Lucerne · FSO no. 1024 · Parcel data as of July 2025
- Parcels
- 3’964
3 % of the canton
- Municipal zones
- 30
- Median utilization
- 69 %
Canton: 49 %
Switzerland: 10 %
- Median GFZ
- 0.37
Canton: 0.13
Switzerland: 0.09
- Median height
- -
Canton: -
Switzerland: 9.5 m
- Median floors
- 2.6
Canton: 2.4
Switzerland: 2.3
About Emmen
Emmen is a municipality in the canton of Lucerne. The parcel data lists 3’964 parcels in 30 municipal zone types. The zone types with the most parcels are 2-geschossige Wohnzone (923), 3-geschossige Wohnzone (868) and 2-geschossige Wohnzone für verdichtete Bauweise (432).
The median parcel is built to a volume utilization of 69 %; half of the parcels lie between 9 % and 109 %. The canton median is 49 %, so Emmen sits above it.
Parcels built in the last 20 years reach a mean volume utilization of 112 % (537 parcels), higher than the 85 % across all building years.
Parcels by municipal zone
| Zone | Parcels | Median utilization |
|---|---|---|
| 2-geschossige Wohnzone | 923 | 88 % |
| 3-geschossige Wohnzone | 868 | 67 % |
| 2-geschossige Wohnzone für verdichtete Bauweise | 432 | 88 % |
| 4-geschossige Wohnzone | 340 | 105 % |
| Landwirtschaftszone | 253 | 0 % |
| Arbeitszone | 238 | 59 % |
| Wald | 214 | 0 % |
| Spezielle Wohnzone | 148 | 40 % |
| Übriges Gebiet A | 81 | 0 % |
| 4-geschossige Wohn- / Gewerbezone | 69 | 53 % |
| Zone für öffentliche Zwecke | 66 | 31 % |
| 6-geschossige Kernzone | 54 | 37 % |
| Other zones (18) | 278 | - |
Volume utilization (ratioV)
Of the 3’915 parcels with a value, half lie between 9 % and 109 %. The median is 69 % and the mean 80 %.
Share of parcels by range
- below 50 %39 %
- 50 % to below 100 %32 %
- 100 % to below 150 %17 %
- 150 % and above12 %
Floor-area ratio (GFZ)
Of the 3’915 parcels with a value, half lie between 0.09 and 0.69. The median is 0.37 and the mean 0.53.
Share of parcels by range
- below 0.5061 %
- 0.50 to below 1.0026 %
- 1.00 to below 1.507 %
- 1.50 and above5 %
Building height
The parcel data has too few values for this measure here.
Number of floors
Of the 2’136 parcels with a value, half lie between 2.0 and 3.4. The median is 2.6 and the mean 2.9.
Share of parcels by range
- below 25 %
- 2 to below 343 %
- 3 to below 544 %
- 5 and above9 %
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 | 3’964 | 85 % |
| Last 60 years | 2’144 | 110 % |
| Last 40 years | 1’517 | 115 % |
| Last 20 years | 537 | 112 % |
| Last 15 years | 381 | 116 % |
| Last 10 years | 214 | 122 % |
| Last 5 years | 80 | 140 % |
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).