Val-de-Ruz: observed built density
Municipality in the canton of Neuchâtel · FSO no. 6487 · Parcel data as of July 2025
- Parcels
- 10’294
17 % of the canton
- Municipal zones
- 28
- Median utilization
- 8 %
Canton: 12 %
Switzerland: 10 %
- Median GFZ
- 0.08
Canton: 0.09
Switzerland: 0.09
- Median height
- -
Canton: -
Switzerland: 9.5 m
- Median floors
- 2.4
Canton: 2.6
Switzerland: 2.3
About Val-de-Ruz
Val-de-Ruz is a municipality in the canton of Neuchâtel. The parcel data lists 10’294 parcels in 28 municipal zone types. The zone types with the most parcels are Zone agricole / Aire forestière / Espace de transport (5’513), Zone d'habitation à faible densité (1’893) and Zone d'ancienne localité (1’050).
The median parcel is built to a volume utilization of 8 %; half of the parcels lie between 4 % and 90 %. The canton median is 12 %, so Val-de-Ruz sits below it.
Parcels built in the last 20 years reach a mean volume utilization of 143 % (1’207 parcels), higher than the 77 % across all building years.
Parcels by municipal zone
| Zone | Parcels | Median utilization |
|---|---|---|
| Zone agricole / Aire forestière / Espace de transport | 5’513 | 0 % |
| Zone d'habitation à faible densité | 1’893 | 89 % |
| Zone d'ancienne localité | 1’050 | 94 % |
| Zone d'habitation à moyenne densité | 537 | 88 % |
| Zone d'habitation à haute densité | 329 | 91 % |
| Zone de transport | 233 | 0 % |
| Zone résidentielle densifiée | 144 | 89 % |
| Zone d'utilité publique | 107 | 29 % |
| Zone mixte | 106 | 80 % |
| Zone de constructions basses | 64 | 83 % |
| Zone viticole | 58 | 0 % |
| Zone industrielle | 49 | 77 % |
| Other zones (16) | 211 | - |
Volume utilization (ratioV)
Of the 10’225 parcels with a value, half lie between 4 % and 90 %. The median is 8 % and the mean 65 %.
Share of parcels by range
- below 50 %65 %
- 50 % to below 100 %13 %
- 100 % to below 150 %10 %
- 150 % and above12 %
Floor-area ratio (GFZ)
Of the 10’225 parcels with a value, half lie between 0.04 and 0.30. The median is 0.08 and the mean 0.19.
Share of parcels by range
- below 0.5087 %
- 0.50 to below 1.0010 %
- 1.00 to below 1.502 %
- 1.50 and above1 %
Building height
The parcel data has too few values for this measure here.
Number of floors
Of the 2’651 parcels with a value, half lie between 1.9 and 3.1. The median is 2.4 and the mean 2.5.
Share of parcels by range
- below 26 %
- 2 to below 349 %
- 3 to below 542 %
- 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 | 10’294 | 77 % |
| Last 60 years | 2’934 | 146 % |
| Last 40 years | 2’327 | 149 % |
| Last 20 years | 1’207 | 143 % |
| Last 15 years | 937 | 144 % |
| Last 10 years | 285 | 139 % |
| Last 5 years | 60 | 130 % |
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).