Kriens: observed built density
Municipality in the canton of Lucerne · FSO no. 1059 · Parcel data as of July 2025
- Parcels
- 4’957
4 % of the canton
- Municipal zones
- 36
- Median utilization
- 68 %
Canton: 49 %
Switzerland: 10 %
- Median GFZ
- 0.36
Canton: 0.13
Switzerland: 0.09
- Median height
- -
Canton: -
Switzerland: 9.5 m
- Median floors
- 2.7
Canton: 2.4
Switzerland: 2.3
About Kriens
Kriens is a municipality in the canton of Lucerne. The parcel data lists 4’957 parcels in 36 municipal zone types. The zone types with the most parcels are Wohnzone B (1’189), Wohnzone D (800) and Wohnzone A (516).
The median parcel is built to a volume utilization of 68 %; half of the parcels lie between 8 % and 116 %. The canton median is 49 %, so Kriens sits above it.
Parcels built in the last 20 years reach a mean volume utilization of 160 % (440 parcels), higher than the 149 % across all building years.
Parcels by municipal zone
| Zone | Parcels | Median utilization |
|---|---|---|
| Wohnzone B | 1’189 | 97 % |
| Wohnzone D | 800 | 69 % |
| Wohnzone A | 516 | 82 % |
| Landwirtschaft | 372 | 0 % |
| Schutzverordnung Hochwald | 344 | 0 % |
| Wohnzone E | 307 | 90 % |
| Wald | 202 | 0 % |
| Wohn- / Arbeitszone B | 177 | 59 % |
| Arbeitszone A | 128 | 77 % |
| Wohn- / Arbeitszone A | 123 | 65 % |
| Arbeitszone C | 115 | 51 % |
| Wohnzone mit Volumenerhaltung | 100 | 57 % |
| Other zones (24) | 584 | - |
Volume utilization (ratioV)
Of the 4’905 parcels with a value, half lie between 8 % and 116 %. The median is 68 % and the mean 135 %.
Share of parcels by range
- below 50 %40 %
- 50 % to below 100 %27 %
- 100 % to below 150 %19 %
- 150 % and above14 %
Floor-area ratio (GFZ)
Of the 4’905 parcels with a value, half lie between 0.07 and 0.68. The median is 0.36 and the mean 0.47.
Share of parcels by range
- below 0.5062 %
- 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 2’517 parcels with a value, half lie between 2.0 and 3.4. The median is 2.7 and the mean 2.9.
Share of parcels by range
- below 24 %
- 2 to below 340 %
- 3 to below 546 %
- 5 and above10 %
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 | 4’957 | 149 % |
| Last 60 years | 2’169 | 181 % |
| Last 40 years | 1’459 | 166 % |
| Last 20 years | 440 | 160 % |
| Last 15 years | 272 | 175 % |
| Last 10 years | 168 | 175 % |
| Last 5 years | 57 | 237 % |
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).