Lignières: observed built density
Municipality in the canton of Neuchâtel · FSO no. 6456 · Parcel data as of July 2025
- Parcels
- 732
1 % of the canton
- Municipal zones
- 15
- Median utilization
- 9 %
Canton: 12 %
Switzerland: 10 %
- Median GFZ
- 0.08
Canton: 0.09
Switzerland: 0.09
- Median height
- -
Canton: -
Switzerland: 9.5 m
- Median floors
- 2.2
Canton: 2.6
Switzerland: 2.3
About Lignières
Lignières is a municipality in the canton of Neuchâtel. The parcel data lists 732 parcels in 15 municipal zone types. The zone types with the most parcels are Zone agricole / Aire forestière / Espace de transport (390), Zone d'habitation à faible densité (124) and Zone d'ancienne localité (106).
The median parcel is built to a volume utilization of 9 %; half of the parcels lie between 4 % and 87 %. The canton median is 12 %, so Lignières sits below it.
Parcels built in the last 20 years reach a mean volume utilization of 130 % (93 parcels), higher than the 78 % across all building years.
Parcels by municipal zone
| Zone | Parcels | Median utilization |
|---|---|---|
| Zone agricole / Aire forestière / Espace de transport | 390 | 0 % |
| Zone d'habitation à faible densité | 124 | 78 % |
| Zone d'ancienne localité | 106 | 76 % |
| Zone de constructions basses | 17 | 90 % |
| Zone de protection de l'ancienne localité | 17 | 17 % |
| Zone d'habitation à moyenne densité | 14 | 175 % |
| Zone de transport | 14 | 0 % |
| Zone artisanale | 13 | 0 % |
| Zone mixte | 13 | 84 % |
| Zone d'utilité publique | 9 | 46 % |
| Zone viticole | 7 | 0 % |
| Zone de sports - détente - loisirs a | 5 | 100 % |
| Other zones (3) | 3 | - |
Volume utilization (ratioV)
Of the 718 parcels with a value, half lie between 4 % and 87 %. The median is 9 % and the mean 67 %.
Share of parcels by range
- below 50 %64 %
- 50 % to below 100 %14 %
- 100 % to below 150 %9 %
- 150 % and above13 %
Floor-area ratio (GFZ)
Of the 718 parcels with a value, half lie between 0.04 and 0.28. The median is 0.08 and the mean 0.19.
Share of parcels by range
- below 0.5086 %
- 0.50 to below 1.0010 %
- 1.00 to below 1.502 %
- 1.50 and above2 %
Building height
The parcel data has too few values for this measure here.
Number of floors
Of the 209 parcels with a value, half lie between 1.8 and 2.9. The median is 2.2 and the mean 2.3.
Share of parcels by range
- below 211 %
- 2 to below 354 %
- 3 to below 536 %
- 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 | 732 | 78 % |
| Last 60 years | 234 | 147 % |
| Last 40 years | 193 | 145 % |
| Last 20 years | 93 | 130 % |
| Last 15 years | 85 | 132 % |
| Last 10 years | 44 | 146 % |
| Last 5 years | 25 | 182 % |
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).