Val-de-Travers: observed built density
Municipality in the canton of Neuchâtel · FSO no. 6512 · Parcel data as of July 2025
- Parcels
- 6’790
11 % of the canton
- Municipal zones
- 25
- 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
- 2.4
Canton: 2.6
Switzerland: 2.3
About Val-de-Travers
Val-de-Travers is a municipality in the canton of Neuchâtel. The parcel data lists 6’790 parcels in 25 municipal zone types. The zone types with the most parcels are Zone agricole / Aire forestière / Espace de transport (3’375), Zone d'ancienne localité (1’170) and Zone d'habitation à faible densité (862).
The median parcel is built to a volume utilization of 9 %; half of the parcels lie between 5 % and 116 %. The canton median is 12 %, so Val-de-Travers sits below it.
Parcels built in the last 20 years reach a mean volume utilization of 180 % (608 parcels), higher than the 122 % across all building years.
Parcels by municipal zone
| Zone | Parcels | Median utilization |
|---|---|---|
| Zone agricole / Aire forestière / Espace de transport | 3’375 | 0 % |
| Zone d'ancienne localité | 1’170 | 136 % |
| Zone d'habitation à faible densité | 862 | 86 % |
| Zone mixte | 340 | 100 % |
| Zone de transport | 248 | 0 % |
| Zone industrielle | 211 | 79 % |
| Zone d'habitation à moyenne densité | 200 | 104 % |
| Zone d'utilité publique | 104 | 68 % |
| Zone d'habitation à haute densité | 88 | 60 % |
| Zone viticole | 48 | 0 % |
| Zone de protection de l'ancienne localité | 28 | 52 % |
| Zone de verdure | 25 | 0 % |
| Other zones (13) | 91 | - |
Volume utilization (ratioV)
Of the 6’739 parcels with a value, half lie between 5 % and 116 %. The median is 9 % and the mean 109 %.
Share of parcels by range
- below 50 %61 %
- 50 % to below 100 %11 %
- 100 % to below 150 %9 %
- 150 % and above19 %
Floor-area ratio (GFZ)
Of the 6’739 parcels with a value, half lie between 0.04 and 0.35. The median is 0.08 and the mean 0.26.
Share of parcels by range
- below 0.5082 %
- 0.50 to below 1.0010 %
- 1.00 to below 1.504 %
- 1.50 and above3 %
Building height
The parcel data has too few values for this measure here.
Number of floors
Of the 1’961 parcels with a value, half lie between 1.8 and 3.1. The median is 2.4 and the mean 2.4.
Share of parcels by range
- below 212 %
- 2 to below 345 %
- 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 | 6’790 | 122 % |
| Last 60 years | 1’646 | 191 % |
| Last 40 years | 1’169 | 183 % |
| Last 20 years | 608 | 180 % |
| Last 15 years | 520 | 174 % |
| Last 10 years | 251 | 139 % |
| Last 5 years | 97 | 129 % |
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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).