Cornaux: observed built density
Municipality in the canton of Neuchâtel · FSO no. 6451 · Parcel data as of July 2025
- Parcels
- 737
1 % of the canton
- Municipal zones
- 14
- Median utilization
- 10 %
Canton: 12 %
Switzerland: 10 %
- Median GFZ
- 0.09
Canton: 0.09
Switzerland: 0.09
- Median height
- -
Canton: -
Switzerland: 9.5 m
- Median floors
- 2.7
Canton: 2.6
Switzerland: 2.3
About Cornaux
Cornaux is a municipality in the canton of Neuchâtel. The parcel data lists 737 parcels in 14 municipal zone types. The zone types with the most parcels are Zone agricole / Aire forestière / Espace de transport (200), Zone d'ancienne localité (105) and Zone d'habitation à faible densité (79).
The median parcel is built to a volume utilization of 10 %; half of the parcels lie between 5 % and 99 %. The canton median is 12 %, so Cornaux sits below it.
Parcels built in the last 20 years reach a mean volume utilization of 134 % (75 parcels), higher than the 120 % across all building years.
Parcels by municipal zone
| Zone | Parcels | Median utilization |
|---|---|---|
| Zone agricole / Aire forestière / Espace de transport | 200 | 0 % |
| Zone d'ancienne localité | 105 | 105 % |
| Zone d'habitation à faible densité | 79 | 86 % |
| Zone viticole | 67 | 0 % |
| Zone d'habitation à moyenne densité | 55 | 73 % |
| Zone d'habitation à haute densité | 47 | 46 % |
| Zone industrielle | 43 | 0 % |
| Zone résidentielle densifiée | 41 | 66 % |
| Zone d'activités économiques | 39 | 64 % |
| Zone de transport | 23 | 0 % |
| Zone mixte | 13 | 52 % |
| Zone d'utilité publique | 12 | 4 % |
| Other zones (2) | 13 | - |
Volume utilization (ratioV)
Of the 724 parcels with a value, half lie between 5 % and 99 %. The median is 10 % and the mean 106 %.
Share of parcels by range
- below 50 %60 %
- 50 % to below 100 %15 %
- 100 % to below 150 %13 %
- 150 % and above11 %
Floor-area ratio (GFZ)
Of the 723 parcels with a value, half lie between 0.04 and 0.40. The median is 0.09 and the mean 0.28.
Share of parcels by range
- below 0.5080 %
- 0.50 to below 1.0011 %
- 1.00 to below 1.505 %
- 1.50 and above3 %
Building height
The parcel data has too few values for this measure here.
Number of floors
Of the 214 parcels with a value, half lie between 2.0 and 3.3. The median is 2.7 and the mean 2.7.
Share of parcels by range
- below 27 %
- 2 to below 336 %
- 3 to below 551 %
- 5 and above6 %
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 | 737 | 120 % |
| Last 60 years | 243 | 134 % |
| Last 40 years | 176 | 142 % |
| Last 20 years | 75 | 134 % |
| Last 15 years | 53 | 148 % |
| Last 10 years | 11 | 140 % |
| Last 5 years | 4 | 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).