Engelberg: observed built density
Municipality in the canton of Obwalden · FSO no. 1402 · Parcel data as of July 2025
- Parcels
- 2’435
14 % of the canton
- Municipal zones
- 25
- Median utilization
- 52 %
Canton: 42 %
Switzerland: 10 %
- Median GFZ
- 0.22
Canton: 0.10
Switzerland: 0.09
- Median height
- -
Canton: -
Switzerland: 9.5 m
- Median floors
- 2.4
Canton: 2.3
Switzerland: 2.3
About Engelberg
Engelberg is a municipality in the canton of Obwalden. The parcel data lists 2’435 parcels in 25 municipal zone types. The zone types with the most parcels are Zweigeschossige Wohnzone B (608), Landwirtschaftszone (549) and Zweigeschossige Wohnzone A (424).
The median parcel is built to a volume utilization of 52 %; half of the parcels lie between 7 % and 114 %. The canton median is 42 %, so Engelberg sits above it.
Parcels built in the last 20 years reach a mean volume utilization of 156 % (217 parcels), lower than the 227 % across all building years.
Parcels by municipal zone
| Zone | Parcels | Median utilization |
|---|---|---|
| Zweigeschossige Wohnzone B | 608 | 69 % |
| Landwirtschaftszone | 549 | 14 % |
| Zweigeschossige Wohnzone A | 424 | 83 % |
| Wald | 236 | 0 % |
| Dreigeschossige Wohnzone | 188 | 60 % |
| Dorfzone | 94 | 89 % |
| Dreigeschossige Gewerbe- und Wohnzone | 68 | 72 % |
| Viergeschossige Wohnzone | 59 | 66 % |
| Übriges Gebiet | 50 | 0 % |
| Zone für öffentliche Bauten und Anlagen | 31 | 59 % |
| Alpwirtschaftszone | 25 | 80 % |
| Gewerbezone | 23 | 30 % |
| Other zones (13) | 80 | - |
Volume utilization (ratioV)
Of the 2’396 parcels with a value, half lie between 7 % and 114 %. The median is 52 % and the mean 172 %.
Share of parcels by range
- below 50 %49 %
- 50 % to below 100 %21 %
- 100 % to below 150 %13 %
- 150 % and above16 %
Floor-area ratio (GFZ)
Of the 2’396 parcels with a value, half lie between 0.06 and 0.54. The median is 0.22 and the mean 0.37.
Share of parcels by range
- below 0.5073 %
- 0.50 to below 1.0019 %
- 1.00 to below 1.505 %
- 1.50 and above4 %
Building height
The parcel data has too few values for this measure here.
Number of floors
Of the 1’221 parcels with a value, half lie between 1.8 and 3.2. The median is 2.4 and the mean 2.5.
Share of parcels by range
- below 211 %
- 2 to below 343 %
- 3 to below 542 %
- 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 | 2’435 | 227 % |
| Last 60 years | 970 | 179 % |
| Last 40 years | 528 | 144 % |
| Last 20 years | 217 | 156 % |
| Last 15 years | 125 | 179 % |
| Last 10 years | 62 | 197 % |
| Last 5 years | 31 | 250 % |
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).