Oberkirch: observed built density
Municipality in the canton of Lucerne · FSO no. 1095 · Parcel data as of July 2025
- Parcels
- 1’041
1 % of the canton
- Municipal zones
- 22
- Median utilization
- 65 %
Canton: 49 %
Switzerland: 10 %
- Median GFZ
- 0.26
Canton: 0.13
Switzerland: 0.09
- Median height
- -
Canton: -
Switzerland: 9.5 m
- Median floors
- 2.1
Canton: 2.4
Switzerland: 2.3
About Oberkirch
Oberkirch is a municipality in the canton of Lucerne. The parcel data lists 1’041 parcels in 22 municipal zone types. The zone types with the most parcels are 2-geschossige Wohnzone ohne Verdichtung (171), Landwirtschaftszone (162) and Landhauszone (132).
The median parcel is built to a volume utilization of 65 %; half of the parcels lie between 8 % and 105 %. The canton median is 49 %, so Oberkirch sits above it.
Parcels built in the last 20 years reach a mean volume utilization of 151 % (228 parcels), close to the 147 % across all building years.
Parcels by municipal zone
| Zone | Parcels | Median utilization |
|---|---|---|
| 2-geschossige Wohnzone ohne Verdichtung | 171 | 73 % |
| Landwirtschaftszone | 162 | 57 % |
| Landhauszone | 132 | 88 % |
| 3-geschossige Wohnzone | 84 | 69 % |
| Uebriges Gebiet C (kantonale Schutzzone) | 79 | 0 % |
| 2-geschossige Wohnzone mit Verdichtung | 75 | 103 % |
| Spezielle Wohnzone | 57 | 100 % |
| Wald | 53 | 0 % |
| Uebriges Gebiet A | 46 | 0 % |
| Zone für Sport- und Freizeitanlagen | 38 | 0 % |
| Dorfzone A | 31 | 71 % |
| Geschäfts- und Wohnzone | 29 | 61 % |
| Other zones (10) | 84 | - |
Volume utilization (ratioV)
Of the 1’018 parcels with a value, half lie between 8 % and 105 %. The median is 65 % and the mean 118 %.
Share of parcels by range
- below 50 %41 %
- 50 % to below 100 %31 %
- 100 % to below 150 %15 %
- 150 % and above12 %
Floor-area ratio (GFZ)
Of the 1’018 parcels with a value, half lie between 0.06 and 0.49. The median is 0.26 and the mean 0.34.
Share of parcels by range
- below 0.5076 %
- 0.50 to below 1.0020 %
- 1.00 to below 1.504 %
- 1.50 and above1 %
Building height
The parcel data has too few values for this measure here.
Number of floors
Of the 622 parcels with a value, half lie between 1.6 and 2.7. The median is 2.1 and the mean 2.2.
Share of parcels by range
- below 221 %
- 2 to below 349 %
- 3 to below 529 %
- 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 | 1’041 | 147 % |
| Last 60 years | 623 | 172 % |
| Last 40 years | 445 | 143 % |
| Last 20 years | 228 | 151 % |
| Last 15 years | 157 | 157 % |
| Last 10 years | 70 | 212 % |
| Last 5 years | 15 | 130 % |
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).