Emmetten: observed built density
Municipality in the canton of Nidwalden · FSO no. 1504 · Parcel data as of July 2025
- Parcels
- 1’037
8 % of the canton
- Municipal zones
- 25
- Median utilization
- 43 %
Canton: 60 %
Switzerland: 10 %
- Median GFZ
- 0.10
Canton: 0.29
Switzerland: 0.09
- Median height
- -
Canton: -
Switzerland: 9.5 m
- Median floors
- 2.0
Canton: 2.8
Switzerland: 2.3
About Emmetten
Emmetten is a municipality in the canton of Nidwalden. The parcel data lists 1’037 parcels in 25 municipal zone types. The zone types with the most parcels are Landwirtschaftszone (292), Wohnzone W2B (195) and Ferienhauszone (98).
The median parcel is built to a volume utilization of 43 %; half of the parcels lie between 7 % and 105 %. The canton median is 60 %, so Emmetten sits below it.
Parcels built in the last 20 years reach a mean volume utilization of 136 % (138 parcels), close to the 139 % across all building years.
Parcels by municipal zone
| Zone | Parcels | Median utilization |
|---|---|---|
| Landwirtschaftszone | 292 | 16 % |
| Wohnzone W2B | 195 | 69 % |
| Ferienhauszone | 98 | 99 % |
| Wohnzone W2C | 98 | 75 % |
| Wald | 76 | 0 % |
| Dorfzone D3A | 46 | 62 % |
| Wohnzone W3 | 41 | 37 % |
| Übriges Gemeindegebiet | 37 | 0 % |
| Wohnzone W2A1 | 31 | 72 % |
| Kernzone | 30 | 28 % |
| Dorfzone D3B | 24 | 71 % |
| Übriges Gebiet ÜG | 12 | 4 % |
| Other zones (13) | 57 | - |
Volume utilization (ratioV)
Of the 1’010 parcels with a value, half lie between 7 % and 105 %. The median is 43 % and the mean 123 %.
Share of parcels by range
- below 50 %53 %
- 50 % to below 100 %20 %
- 100 % to below 150 %15 %
- 150 % and above12 %
Floor-area ratio (GFZ)
Of the 1’010 parcels with a value, half lie between 0.05 and 0.38. The median is 0.10 and the mean 0.24.
Share of parcels by range
- below 0.5084 %
- 0.50 to below 1.0012 %
- 1.00 to below 1.503 %
- 1.50 and above1 %
Building height
The parcel data has too few values for this measure here.
Number of floors
Of the 641 parcels with a value, half lie between 1.3 and 2.7. The median is 2.0 and the mean 2.1.
Share of parcels by range
- below 232 %
- 2 to below 338 %
- 3 to below 529 %
- 5 and above< 1 %
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 | 1’037 | 139 % |
| Last 60 years | 466 | 178 % |
| Last 40 years | 258 | 117 % |
| Last 20 years | 138 | 136 % |
| Last 15 years | 102 | 114 % |
| Last 10 years | 60 | 111 % |
| Last 5 years | 20 | 91 % |
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).