Buochs: observed built density
Municipality in the canton of Nidwalden · FSO no. 1502 · Parcel data as of July 2025
- Parcels
- 1’164
9 % of the canton
- Municipal zones
- 29
- Median utilization
- 70 %
Canton: 60 %
Switzerland: 10 %
- Median GFZ
- 0.45
Canton: 0.29
Switzerland: 0.09
- Median height
- -
Canton: -
Switzerland: 9.5 m
- Median floors
- 2.9
Canton: 2.8
Switzerland: 2.3
About Buochs
Buochs is a municipality in the canton of Nidwalden. The parcel data lists 1’164 parcels in 29 municipal zone types. The zone types with the most parcels are Wohnzone 14 (243), Landwirtschaftszone (204) and Wohnzone 11 (179).
The median parcel is built to a volume utilization of 70 %; half of the parcels lie between 21 % and 109 %. The canton median is 60 %, so Buochs sits above it.
Parcels built in the last 20 years reach a mean volume utilization of 129 % (149 parcels), lower than the 162 % across all building years.
Parcels by municipal zone
| Zone | Parcels | Median utilization |
|---|---|---|
| Wohnzone 14 | 243 | 61 % |
| Landwirtschaftszone | 204 | 38 % |
| Wohnzone 11 | 179 | 98 % |
| Wohnzone 10 | 95 | 52 % |
| Wohnzone 16 | 72 | 94 % |
| Kernzone 14b | 68 | 108 % |
| Verkehrszone | 66 | 0 % |
| Kernzone 14a | 46 | 86 % |
| Wohnzone 6.5a | 25 | 96 % |
| Zone für öffentliche Zwecke | 22 | 15 % |
| Gewerbezone 14a | 20 | 100 % |
| Kernzone 12 | 19 | 74 % |
| Other zones (17) | 105 | - |
Volume utilization (ratioV)
Of the 1’129 parcels with a value, half lie between 21 % and 109 %. The median is 70 % and the mean 131 %.
Share of parcels by range
- below 50 %39 %
- 50 % to below 100 %30 %
- 100 % to below 150 %19 %
- 150 % and above11 %
Floor-area ratio (GFZ)
Of the 1’129 parcels with a value, half lie between 0.08 and 0.84. The median is 0.45 and the mean 0.52.
Share of parcels by range
- below 0.5054 %
- 0.50 to below 1.0028 %
- 1.00 to below 1.5015 %
- 1.50 and above4 %
Building height
The parcel data has too few values for this measure here.
Number of floors
Of the 689 parcels with a value, half lie between 2.2 and 3.6. The median is 2.9 and the mean 2.9.
Share of parcels by range
- below 23 %
- 2 to below 333 %
- 3 to below 560 %
- 5 and above4 %
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 | 1’164 | 162 % |
| Last 60 years | 614 | 190 % |
| Last 40 years | 410 | 179 % |
| Last 20 years | 149 | 129 % |
| Last 15 years | 101 | 140 % |
| Last 10 years | 66 | 140 % |
| Last 5 years | 24 | 129 % |
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).