Ettiswil: observed built density
Municipality in the canton of Lucerne · FSO no. 1128 · Parcel data as of July 2025
- Parcels
- 1’349
1 % of the canton
- Municipal zones
- 27
- Median utilization
- 17 %
Canton: 49 %
Switzerland: 10 %
- Median GFZ
- 0.09
Canton: 0.13
Switzerland: 0.09
- Median height
- -
Canton: -
Switzerland: 9.5 m
- Median floors
- 2.2
Canton: 2.4
Switzerland: 2.3
About Ettiswil
Ettiswil is a municipality in the canton of Lucerne. The parcel data lists 1’349 parcels in 27 municipal zone types. The zone types with the most parcels are Landwirtschaftszone (500), Wohnzone 2 dicht (152) and Wald (151).
The median parcel is built to a volume utilization of 17 %; half of the parcels lie between 5 % and 97 %. The canton median is 49 %, so Ettiswil sits below it.
Parcels built in the last 20 years reach a mean volume utilization of 128 % (191 parcels), higher than the 77 % across all building years.
Parcels by municipal zone
| Zone | Parcels | Median utilization |
|---|---|---|
| Landwirtschaftszone | 500 | 0 % |
| Wohnzone 2 dicht | 152 | 99 % |
| Wald | 151 | 0 % |
| Wohnzone 3 niedrig | 93 | 86 % |
| Wohnzone 2 normal | 92 | 97 % |
| Kernzone Ettiswil | 72 | 80 % |
| Arbeitszone III | 54 | 96 % |
| Verkehrszone | 36 | 0 % |
| Wohnzone 3 dicht | 32 | 92 % |
| Kernzone Kottwil | 30 | 74 % |
| Dorfzone Ausserdorf | 26 | 112 % |
| Zone für öffentliche Zwecke | 18 | 59 % |
| Other zones (15) | 93 | - |
Volume utilization (ratioV)
Of the 1’319 parcels with a value, half lie between 5 % and 97 %. The median is 17 % and the mean 66 %.
Share of parcels by range
- below 50 %56 %
- 50 % to below 100 %21 %
- 100 % to below 150 %12 %
- 150 % and above11 %
Floor-area ratio (GFZ)
Of the 1’319 parcels with a value, half lie between 0.05 and 0.40. The median is 0.09 and the mean 0.22.
Share of parcels by range
- below 0.5083 %
- 0.50 to below 1.0015 %
- 1.00 to below 1.502 %
- 1.50 and above< 1 %
Building height
The parcel data has too few values for this measure here.
Number of floors
Of the 477 parcels with a value, half lie between 1.8 and 2.7. The median is 2.2 and the mean 2.2.
Share of parcels by range
- below 210 %
- 2 to below 359 %
- 3 to below 531 %
- 5 and above< 1 %
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 | 1’349 | 77 % |
| Last 60 years | 540 | 126 % |
| Last 40 years | 423 | 130 % |
| Last 20 years | 191 | 128 % |
| Last 15 years | 124 | 138 % |
| Last 10 years | 68 | 156 % |
| Last 5 years | 26 | 166 % |
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).