Hergiswil (NW): observed built density
Municipality in the canton of Nidwalden · FSO no. 1507 · Parcel data as of July 2025
- Parcels
- 1’313
11 % of the canton
- Municipal zones
- 29
- Median utilization
- 62 %
Canton: 60 %
Switzerland: 10 %
- Median GFZ
- 0.43
Canton: 0.29
Switzerland: 0.09
- Median height
- -
Canton: -
Switzerland: 9.5 m
- Median floors
- 3.1
Canton: 2.8
Switzerland: 2.3
About Hergiswil (NW)
Hergiswil (NW) is a municipality in the canton of Nidwalden. The parcel data lists 1’313 parcels in 29 municipal zone types. The zone types with the most parcels are Wohnzone 11b (371), Landwirtschaftszone (151) and Wohnzone 14a (135).
The median parcel is built to a volume utilization of 62 %; half of the parcels lie between 9 % and 102 %. The canton median is 60 %, close to the level of Hergiswil (NW).
Parcels built in the last 20 years reach a mean volume utilization of 137 % (201 parcels), lower than the 468 % across all building years.
Parcels by municipal zone
| Zone | Parcels | Median utilization |
|---|---|---|
| Wohnzone 11b | 371 | 71 % |
| Landwirtschaftszone | 151 | 19 % |
| Wohnzone 14a | 135 | 56 % |
| Wohnzone 14b | 112 | 77 % |
| Verkehrszone | 103 | 0 % |
| Wohnzone 17 | 87 | 83 % |
| Wohnzone 11a | 72 | 86 % |
| Wohn- und Gewerbezone 18b | 49 | 104 % |
| Wald | 41 | 0 % |
| Zone für öffentliche Zwecke | 33 | 88 % |
| Wohnzone 12 | 29 | 59 % |
| Kernzone 15 | 24 | 83 % |
| Other zones (17) | 106 | - |
Volume utilization (ratioV)
Of the 1’280 parcels with a value, half lie between 9 % and 102 %. The median is 62 % and the mean 108 %.
Share of parcels by range
- below 50 %41 %
- 50 % to below 100 %33 %
- 100 % to below 150 %15 %
- 150 % and above12 %
Floor-area ratio (GFZ)
Of the 1’280 parcels with a value, half lie between 0.08 and 0.76. The median is 0.43 and the mean 0.51.
Share of parcels by range
- below 0.5057 %
- 0.50 to below 1.0029 %
- 1.00 to below 1.508 %
- 1.50 and above6 %
Building height
The parcel data has too few values for this measure here.
Number of floors
Of the 754 parcels with a value, half lie between 2.5 and 3.9. The median is 3.1 and the mean 3.2.
Share of parcels by range
- below 21 %
- 2 to below 324 %
- 3 to below 564 %
- 5 and above11 %
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 | 1’313 | 468 % |
| Last 60 years | 692 | 164 % |
| Last 40 years | 436 | 193 % |
| Last 20 years | 201 | 137 % |
| Last 15 years | 148 | 153 % |
| Last 10 years | 94 | 166 % |
| Last 5 years | 50 | 151 % |
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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).