Pfaffnau: observed built density
Municipality in the canton of Lucerne · FSO no. 1139 · Parcel data as of July 2025
- Parcels
- 1’175
1 % of the canton
- Municipal zones
- 20
- Median utilization
- 47 %
Canton: 49 %
Switzerland: 10 %
- Median GFZ
- 0.10
Canton: 0.13
Switzerland: 0.09
- Median height
- -
Canton: -
Switzerland: 9.5 m
- Median floors
- 2.1
Canton: 2.4
Switzerland: 2.3
About Pfaffnau
Pfaffnau is a municipality in the canton of Lucerne. The parcel data lists 1’175 parcels in 20 municipal zone types. The zone types with the most parcels are Landwirtschaftszone (455), Wohnzone A (277) and Wohnzone B (98).
The median parcel is built to a volume utilization of 47 %; half of the parcels lie between 6 % and 108 %. The canton median is 49 %, close to the level of Pfaffnau.
Parcels built in the last 20 years reach a mean volume utilization of 125 % (186 parcels), higher than the 87 % across all building years.
Parcels by municipal zone
| Zone | Parcels | Median utilization |
|---|---|---|
| Landwirtschaftszone | 455 | 0 % |
| Wohnzone A | 277 | 91 % |
| Wohnzone B | 98 | 93 % |
| Kernzone | 61 | 104 % |
| Wald | 61 | 0 % |
| Verkehrszone | 46 | 0 % |
| Arbeitszone | 28 | 66 % |
| Mischzone | 26 | 99 % |
| Dorfzone Sagen | 24 | 106 % |
| Wohnzone C | 18 | 97 % |
| Übriges Gebiet A Gewässer | 13 | 0 % |
| Übriges Gebiet C | 13 | 5 % |
| Other zones (8) | 55 | - |
Volume utilization (ratioV)
Of the 1’147 parcels with a value, half lie between 6 % and 108 %. The median is 47 % and the mean 81 %.
Share of parcels by range
- below 50 %51 %
- 50 % to below 100 %21 %
- 100 % to below 150 %15 %
- 150 % and above13 %
Floor-area ratio (GFZ)
Of the 1’147 parcels with a value, half lie between 0.05 and 0.33. The median is 0.10 and the mean 0.19.
Share of parcels by range
- below 0.5089 %
- 0.50 to below 1.0010 %
- 1.00 to below 1.501 %
- 1.50 and above< 1 %
Building height
The parcel data has too few values for this measure here.
Number of floors
Of the 442 parcels with a value, half lie between 1.7 and 2.4. The median is 2.1 and the mean 2.2.
Share of parcels by range
- below 29 %
- 2 to below 369 %
- 3 to below 521 %
- 5 and above0 %
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 | 1’175 | 87 % |
| Last 60 years | 520 | 124 % |
| Last 40 years | 379 | 125 % |
| Last 20 years | 186 | 125 % |
| Last 15 years | 123 | 130 % |
| Last 10 years | 53 | 137 % |
| Last 5 years | 17 | 173 % |
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).