Hochdorf: observed built density
Municipality in the canton of Lucerne · FSO no. 1031 · Parcel data as of July 2025
- Parcels
- 2’121
2 % of the canton
- Municipal zones
- 24
- Median utilization
- 67 %
Canton: 49 %
Switzerland: 10 %
- Median GFZ
- 0.35
Canton: 0.13
Switzerland: 0.09
- Median height
- -
Canton: -
Switzerland: 9.5 m
- Median floors
- 2.4
Canton: 2.4
Switzerland: 2.3
About Hochdorf
Hochdorf is a municipality in the canton of Lucerne. The parcel data lists 2’121 parcels in 24 municipal zone types. The zone types with the most parcels are Wohnzone C (646), Wohnzone B (275) and Landwirtschaftszone (262).
The median parcel is built to a volume utilization of 67 %; half of the parcels lie between 8 % and 106 %. The canton median is 49 %, so Hochdorf sits above it.
Parcels built in the last 20 years reach a mean volume utilization of 110 % (361 parcels), higher than the 80 % across all building years.
Parcels by municipal zone
| Zone | Parcels | Median utilization |
|---|---|---|
| Wohnzone C | 646 | 93 % |
| Wohnzone B | 275 | 76 % |
| Landwirtschaftszone | 262 | 0 % |
| Wald | 115 | 0 % |
| Zentrumszone B | 100 | 91 % |
| Kernzone | 94 | 74 % |
| Zentrumszone A | 82 | 62 % |
| Zone für Sport- und Freizeitanlagen | 80 | 0 % |
| Wohnzone D | 77 | 47 % |
| Arbeitszone A | 75 | 89 % |
| Verkehrszone | 69 | 0 % |
| Arbeits- und Wohnzone | 47 | 88 % |
| Other zones (12) | 199 | - |
Volume utilization (ratioV)
Of the 2’093 parcels with a value, half lie between 8 % and 106 %. The median is 67 % and the mean 73 %.
Share of parcels by range
- below 50 %42 %
- 50 % to below 100 %30 %
- 100 % to below 150 %18 %
- 150 % and above11 %
Floor-area ratio (GFZ)
Of the 2’093 parcels with a value, half lie between 0.07 and 0.63. The median is 0.35 and the mean 0.42.
Share of parcels by range
- below 0.5065 %
- 0.50 to below 1.0026 %
- 1.00 to below 1.506 %
- 1.50 and above3 %
Building height
The parcel data has too few values for this measure here.
Number of floors
Of the 1’148 parcels with a value, half lie between 1.9 and 3.2. The median is 2.4 and the mean 2.6.
Share of parcels by range
- below 24 %
- 2 to below 350 %
- 3 to below 541 %
- 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 | 2’121 | 80 % |
| Last 60 years | 1’079 | 105 % |
| Last 40 years | 812 | 109 % |
| Last 20 years | 361 | 110 % |
| Last 15 years | 249 | 116 % |
| Last 10 years | 117 | 122 % |
| Last 5 years | 37 | 135 % |
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).