Le Locle: observed built density
Municipality in the canton of Neuchâtel · FSO no. 6436 · Parcel data as of July 2025
- Parcels
- 4’011
6 % of the canton
- Municipal zones
- 19
- Median utilization
- 52 %
Canton: 12 %
Switzerland: 10 %
- Median GFZ
- 0.12
Canton: 0.09
Switzerland: 0.09
- Median height
- -
Canton: -
Switzerland: 9.5 m
- Median floors
- 3.0
Canton: 2.6
Switzerland: 2.3
About Le Locle
Le Locle is a municipality in the canton of Neuchâtel. The parcel data lists 4’011 parcels in 19 municipal zone types. The zone types with the most parcels are Zone agricole / Aire forestière / Espace de transport (1’307), Zone d'habitation à faible densité (938) and Zone d'ancienne localité (585).
The median parcel is built to a volume utilization of 52 %; half of the parcels lie between 6 % and 156 %. The canton median is 12 %, so Le Locle sits above it.
Parcels built in the last 20 years reach a mean volume utilization of 158 % (381 parcels), lower than the 163 % across all building years.
Parcels by municipal zone
| Zone | Parcels | Median utilization |
|---|---|---|
| Zone agricole / Aire forestière / Espace de transport | 1’307 | 0 % |
| Zone d'habitation à faible densité | 938 | 88 % |
| Zone d'ancienne localité | 585 | 159 % |
| Zone mixte | 340 | 94 % |
| Zone d'habitation à moyenne densité | 227 | 85 % |
| Zone d'habitation à haute densité | 140 | 78 % |
| Zone de transport | 121 | 0 % |
| Zone de verdure | 106 | 0 % |
| Zone d'utilité publique | 67 | 115 % |
| Zone d'activités économiques | 61 | 45 % |
| Zone viticole | 32 | 0 % |
| Zone industrielle | 25 | 45 % |
| Other zones (7) | 62 | - |
Volume utilization (ratioV)
Of the 3’978 parcels with a value, half lie between 6 % and 156 %. The median is 52 % and the mean 142 %.
Share of parcels by range
- below 50 %50 %
- 50 % to below 100 %13 %
- 100 % to below 150 %11 %
- 150 % and above26 %
Floor-area ratio (GFZ)
Of the 3’978 parcels with a value, half lie between 0.05 and 0.51. The median is 0.12 and the mean 0.44.
Share of parcels by range
- below 0.5075 %
- 0.50 to below 1.0011 %
- 1.00 to below 1.505 %
- 1.50 and above9 %
Building height
The parcel data has too few values for this measure here.
Number of floors
Of the 1’419 parcels with a value, half lie between 2.2 and 3.9. The median is 3.0 and the mean 3.1.
Share of parcels by range
- below 26 %
- 2 to below 329 %
- 3 to below 552 %
- 5 and above13 %
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 | 4’011 | 163 % |
| Last 60 years | 1’126 | 198 % |
| Last 40 years | 776 | 166 % |
| Last 20 years | 381 | 158 % |
| Last 15 years | 307 | 147 % |
| Last 10 years | 89 | 183 % |
| Last 5 years | 39 | 175 % |
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).