Meggen: observed built density
Municipality in the canton of Lucerne · FSO no. 1063 · Parcel data as of July 2025
- Parcels
- 1’951
2 % of the canton
- Municipal zones
- 22
- Median utilization
- 59 %
Canton: 49 %
Switzerland: 10 %
- Median GFZ
- 0.33
Canton: 0.13
Switzerland: 0.09
- Median height
- -
Canton: -
Switzerland: 9.5 m
- Median floors
- 2.5
Canton: 2.4
Switzerland: 2.3
About Meggen
Meggen is a municipality in the canton of Lucerne. The parcel data lists 1’951 parcels in 22 municipal zone types. The zone types with the most parcels are 2-geschossige Wohnzone c (497), 2-geschossige Wohnzone b (483) and Landwirtschaftszone (149).
The median parcel is built to a volume utilization of 59 %; half of the parcels lie between 8 % and 99 %. The canton median is 49 %, so Meggen sits above it.
Parcels built in the last 20 years reach a mean volume utilization of 324 % (276 parcels), higher than the 121 % across all building years.
Parcels by municipal zone
| Zone | Parcels | Median utilization |
|---|---|---|
| 2-geschossige Wohnzone c | 497 | 75 % |
| 2-geschossige Wohnzone b | 483 | 66 % |
| Landwirtschaftszone | 149 | 2 % |
| 3-geschossige Wohnzone b | 131 | 85 % |
| Wald | 121 | 0 % |
| 3-geschossige Wohn- und Geschäftszone | 97 | 77 % |
| 2-geschossige Wohnzone a | 87 | 58 % |
| Uebriges Gebiet A | 87 | 0 % |
| 3-geschossige Wohnzone a | 62 | 89 % |
| Parkzone | 62 | 48 % |
| Zone für öffentliche Zwecke | 50 | 11 % |
| Fischerdörflizone | 26 | 97 % |
| Other zones (10) | 99 | - |
Volume utilization (ratioV)
Of the 1’929 parcels with a value, half lie between 8 % and 99 %. The median is 59 % and the mean 87 %.
Share of parcels by range
- below 50 %45 %
- 50 % to below 100 %31 %
- 100 % to below 150 %13 %
- 150 % and above11 %
Floor-area ratio (GFZ)
Of the 1’929 parcels with a value, half lie between 0.07 and 0.58. The median is 0.33 and the mean 0.38.
Share of parcels by range
- below 0.5068 %
- 0.50 to below 1.0024 %
- 1.00 to below 1.506 %
- 1.50 and above1 %
Building height
The parcel data has too few values for this measure here.
Number of floors
Of the 1’114 parcels with a value, half lie between 1.8 and 3.2. The median is 2.5 and the mean 2.5.
Share of parcels by range
- below 212 %
- 2 to below 339 %
- 3 to below 546 %
- 5 and above3 %
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 | 1’951 | 121 % |
| Last 60 years | 1’078 | 157 % |
| Last 40 years | 683 | 195 % |
| Last 20 years | 276 | 324 % |
| Last 15 years | 201 | 411 % |
| Last 10 years | 111 | 640 % |
| Last 5 years | 31 | 125 % |
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).