Cortaillod: observed built density
Municipality in the canton of Neuchâtel · FSO no. 6408 · Parcel data as of July 2025
- Parcels
- 1’558
3 % of the canton
- Municipal zones
- 16
- Median utilization
- 49 %
Canton: 12 %
Switzerland: 10 %
- Median GFZ
- 0.22
Canton: 0.09
Switzerland: 0.09
- Median height
- -
Canton: -
Switzerland: 9.5 m
- Median floors
- 2.6
Canton: 2.6
Switzerland: 2.3
About Cortaillod
Cortaillod is a municipality in the canton of Neuchâtel. The parcel data lists 1’558 parcels in 16 municipal zone types. The zone types with the most parcels are Zone d'habitation à faible densité (594), Zone viticole (220) and Zone d'ancienne localité (213).
The median parcel is built to a volume utilization of 49 %; half of the parcels lie between 6 % and 108 %. The canton median is 12 %, so Cortaillod sits above it.
Parcels built in the last 20 years reach a mean volume utilization of 157 % (159 parcels), higher than the 104 % across all building years.
Parcels by municipal zone
| Zone | Parcels | Median utilization |
|---|---|---|
| Zone d'habitation à faible densité | 594 | 84 % |
| Zone viticole | 220 | 0 % |
| Zone d'ancienne localité | 213 | 89 % |
| Zone agricole / Aire forestière / Espace de transport | 192 | 0 % |
| Zone d'habitation à haute densité | 87 | 89 % |
| Zone industrielle | 55 | 42 % |
| Zone d'habitation à moyenne densité | 53 | 71 % |
| Zone mixte | 37 | 34 % |
| Zone de transport | 28 | 0 % |
| Zone de verdure | 23 | 0 % |
| Zone d'utilité publique | 18 | 23 % |
| Zone de sports - détente - loisirs a | 13 | 26 % |
| Other zones (4) | 25 | - |
Volume utilization (ratioV)
Of the 1’538 parcels with a value, half lie between 6 % and 108 %. The median is 49 % and the mean 86 %.
Share of parcels by range
- below 50 %50 %
- 50 % to below 100 %21 %
- 100 % to below 150 %15 %
- 150 % and above13 %
Floor-area ratio (GFZ)
Of the 1’538 parcels with a value, half lie between 0.06 and 0.56. The median is 0.22 and the mean 0.41.
Share of parcels by range
- below 0.5072 %
- 0.50 to below 1.0015 %
- 1.00 to below 1.506 %
- 1.50 and above7 %
Building height
The parcel data has too few values for this measure here.
Number of floors
Of the 656 parcels with a value, half lie between 2.0 and 3.2. The median is 2.6 and the mean 2.7.
Share of parcels by range
- below 26 %
- 2 to below 341 %
- 3 to below 551 %
- 5 and above2 %
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 | 1’558 | 104 % |
| Last 60 years | 542 | 155 % |
| Last 40 years | 347 | 147 % |
| Last 20 years | 159 | 157 % |
| Last 15 years | 127 | 168 % |
| Last 10 years | 39 | 243 % |
| Last 5 years | 16 | 453 % |
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).