Hitzkirch: observed built density
Municipality in the canton of Lucerne · FSO no. 1030 · Parcel data as of July 2025
- Parcels
- 3’448
3 % of the canton
- Municipal zones
- 29
- Median utilization
- 9 %
Canton: 49 %
Switzerland: 10 %
- Median GFZ
- 0.08
Canton: 0.13
Switzerland: 0.09
- Median height
- -
Canton: -
Switzerland: 9.5 m
- Median floors
- 2.2
Canton: 2.4
Switzerland: 2.3
About Hitzkirch
Hitzkirch is a municipality in the canton of Lucerne. The parcel data lists 3’448 parcels in 29 municipal zone types. The zone types with the most parcels are Landwirtschaftszone (1’137), Wohnzone C (507) and Wald (495).
The median parcel is built to a volume utilization of 9 %; half of the parcels lie between 5 % and 82 %. The canton median is 49 %, so Hitzkirch sits below it.
Parcels built in the last 20 years reach a mean volume utilization of 127 % (425 parcels), higher than the 63 % across all building years.
Parcels by municipal zone
| Zone | Parcels | Median utilization |
|---|---|---|
| Landwirtschaftszone | 1’137 | 0 % |
| Wohnzone C | 507 | 79 % |
| Wald | 495 | 0 % |
| Wohnzone D | 413 | 75 % |
| Dorfzone | 272 | 75 % |
| Übriges Gebiet | 186 | 0 % |
| Wohn- und Arbeitszone 1 | 62 | 44 % |
| Zweigeschossige Wohnzone | 52 | 95 % |
| Kernzone Hitzkirch | 50 | 79 % |
| Kernerweiterungszone Hitzkirch | 41 | 44 % |
| Zone für öffentliche Zwecke | 36 | 96 % |
| Wohnzone B | 35 | 73 % |
| Other zones (17) | 162 | - |
Volume utilization (ratioV)
Of the 3’406 parcels with a value, half lie between 5 % and 82 %. The median is 9 % and the mean 57 %.
Share of parcels by range
- below 50 %63 %
- 50 % to below 100 %18 %
- 100 % to below 150 %10 %
- 150 % and above9 %
Floor-area ratio (GFZ)
Of the 3’406 parcels with a value, half lie between 0.04 and 0.33. The median is 0.08 and the mean 0.19.
Share of parcels by range
- below 0.5086 %
- 0.50 to below 1.0011 %
- 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 1’266 parcels with a value, half lie between 1.7 and 2.8. The median is 2.2 and the mean 2.2.
Share of parcels by range
- below 217 %
- 2 to below 351 %
- 3 to below 532 %
- 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 in | Parcels | Mean utilization |
|---|---|---|
| All years | 3’448 | 63 % |
| Last 60 years | 1’259 | 116 % |
| Last 40 years | 962 | 117 % |
| Last 20 years | 425 | 127 % |
| Last 15 years | 304 | 131 % |
| Last 10 years | 135 | 143 % |
| Last 5 years | 37 | 126 % |
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).