Wauwil: observed built density
Municipality in the canton of Lucerne · FSO no. 1146 · Parcel data as of July 2025
- Parcels
- 607
1 % of the canton
- Municipal zones
- 16
- Median utilization
- 61 %
Canton: 49 %
Switzerland: 10 %
- Median GFZ
- 0.36
Canton: 0.13
Switzerland: 0.09
- Median height
- -
Canton: -
Switzerland: 9.5 m
- Median floors
- 2.5
Canton: 2.4
Switzerland: 2.3
About Wauwil
Wauwil is a municipality in the canton of Lucerne. The parcel data lists 607 parcels in 16 municipal zone types. The zone types with the most parcels are 2-geschossige Wohnzone mit lockerer Bebauung (148), 2-geschossige Wohnzone mit dichter Bebauung (105) and Landwirtschaftszone (101).
The median parcel is built to a volume utilization of 61 %; half of the parcels lie between 9 % and 98 %. The canton median is 49 %, so Wauwil sits above it.
Parcels built in the last 20 years reach a mean volume utilization of 122 % (133 parcels), higher than the 81 % across all building years.
Parcels by municipal zone
| Zone | Parcels | Median utilization |
|---|---|---|
| 2-geschossige Wohnzone mit lockerer Bebauung | 148 | 67 % |
| 2-geschossige Wohnzone mit dichter Bebauung | 105 | 72 % |
| Landwirtschaftszone | 101 | 0 % |
| 3-geschossige Wohnzone | 76 | 73 % |
| Wohn-/Arbeitszone | 43 | 86 % |
| Uebriges Gebiet A | 33 | 0 % |
| Wald | 25 | 0 % |
| Arbeitszone | 19 | 94 % |
| Dorfzone | 17 | 96 % |
| Zentrumszone Glasi | 16 | 14 % |
| Kernzone | 13 | 94 % |
| Zone für öffentliche Zwecke | 7 | 258 % |
| Other zones (4) | 4 | - |
Volume utilization (ratioV)
Of the 592 parcels with a value, half lie between 9 % and 98 %. The median is 61 % and the mean 76 %.
Share of parcels by range
- below 50 %41 %
- 50 % to below 100 %35 %
- 100 % to below 150 %15 %
- 150 % and above9 %
Floor-area ratio (GFZ)
Of the 592 parcels with a value, half lie between 0.07 and 0.59. The median is 0.36 and the mean 0.41.
Share of parcels by range
- below 0.5065 %
- 0.50 to below 1.0028 %
- 1.00 to below 1.506 %
- 1.50 and above2 %
Building height
The parcel data has too few values for this measure here.
Number of floors
Of the 321 parcels with a value, half lie between 1.9 and 3.2. The median is 2.5 and the mean 2.6.
Share of parcels by range
- below 28 %
- 2 to below 342 %
- 3 to below 546 %
- 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 | 607 | 81 % |
| Last 60 years | 340 | 107 % |
| Last 40 years | 256 | 107 % |
| Last 20 years | 133 | 122 % |
| Last 15 years | 105 | 128 % |
| Last 10 years | 60 | 146 % |
| Last 5 years | 23 | 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).