Zell (LU): observed built density
Municipality in the canton of Lucerne · FSO no. 1150 · Parcel data as of July 2025
- Parcels
- 1’159
1 % of the canton
- Municipal zones
- 23
- Median utilization
- 9 %
Canton: 49 %
Switzerland: 10 %
- Median GFZ
- 0.08
Canton: 0.13
Switzerland: 0.09
- Median height
- -
Canton: -
Switzerland: 9.5 m
- Median floors
- 2.2
Canton: 2.4
Switzerland: 2.3
About Zell (LU)
Zell (LU) is a municipality in the canton of Lucerne. The parcel data lists 1’159 parcels in 23 municipal zone types. The zone types with the most parcels are Landwirtschaftszone (317), Wald (299) and 2-geschossige Wohnzone a (211).
The median parcel is built to a volume utilization of 9 %; half of the parcels lie between 5 % and 85 %. The canton median is 49 %, so Zell (LU) sits below it.
Parcels built in the last 20 years reach a mean volume utilization of 145 % (135 parcels), higher than the 71 % across all building years.
Parcels by municipal zone
| Zone | Parcels | Median utilization |
|---|---|---|
| Landwirtschaftszone | 317 | 0 % |
| Wald | 299 | 0 % |
| 2-geschossige Wohnzone a | 211 | 83 % |
| Dorfzone | 84 | 63 % |
| 3-geschossige Wohnzone | 68 | 78 % |
| Arbeitszone 1 | 38 | 56 % |
| Uebriges Gebiet A | 38 | 0 % |
| Arbeitszone 2 | 27 | 65 % |
| Abbauzone | 20 | 0 % |
| 2-geschossige Wohnzone b | 13 | 107 % |
| Zone für öffentliche Zwecke | 11 | 62 % |
| Sonderbauzone Steiberg | 6 | 7 % |
| Other zones (11) | 27 | - |
Volume utilization (ratioV)
Of the 1’132 parcels with a value, half lie between 5 % and 85 %. The median is 9 % and the mean 63 %.
Share of parcels by range
- below 50 %62 %
- 50 % to below 100 %19 %
- 100 % to below 150 %10 %
- 150 % and above8 %
Floor-area ratio (GFZ)
Of the 1’132 parcels with a value, half lie between 0.04 and 0.33. The median is 0.08 and the mean 0.17.
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 323 parcels with a value, half lie between 1.8 and 2.7. The median is 2.2 and the mean 2.3.
Share of parcels by range
- below 25 %
- 2 to below 366 %
- 3 to below 529 %
- 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 | 1’159 | 71 % |
| Last 60 years | 384 | 128 % |
| Last 40 years | 289 | 136 % |
| Last 20 years | 135 | 145 % |
| Last 15 years | 94 | 151 % |
| Last 10 years | 66 | 158 % |
| Last 5 years | 31 | 157 % |
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).