Giswil: observed built density
Municipality in the canton of Obwalden · FSO no. 1403 · Parcel data as of July 2025
- Parcels
- 2’233
13 % of the canton
- Municipal zones
- 31
- Median utilization
- 32 %
Canton: 42 %
Switzerland: 10 %
- Median GFZ
- 0.09
Canton: 0.10
Switzerland: 0.09
- Median height
- -
Canton: -
Switzerland: 9.5 m
- Median floors
- 2.0
Canton: 2.3
Switzerland: 2.3
About Giswil
Giswil is a municipality in the canton of Obwalden. The parcel data lists 2’233 parcels in 31 municipal zone types. The zone types with the most parcels are Landwirtschaftszone (1’090), Zweigeschossige Wohnzone A (265) and Wald (204).
The median parcel is built to a volume utilization of 32 %; half of the parcels lie between 6 % and 115 %. The canton median is 42 %, so Giswil sits below it.
Parcels built in the last 20 years reach a mean volume utilization of 158 % (258 parcels), lower than the 182 % across all building years.
Parcels by municipal zone
| Zone | Parcels | Median utilization |
|---|---|---|
| Landwirtschaftszone | 1’090 | 16 % |
| Zweigeschossige Wohnzone A | 265 | 96 % |
| Wald | 204 | 0 % |
| Dorfzone A | 105 | 68 % |
| Zweigeschossige Wohnzone B | 105 | 48 % |
| Dreigeschossige Wohnzone | 89 | 105 % |
| Dorfzone B | 61 | 119 % |
| Verkehrsfläche | 58 | 0 % |
| Gewerbezone | 50 | 48 % |
| Verkehrszone | 43 | 0 % |
| Alpwirtschaftszone | 29 | 11 % |
| Dreigeschossige Wohn- und Gewerbezone | 24 | 52 % |
| Other zones (19) | 110 | - |
Volume utilization (ratioV)
Of the 2’197 parcels with a value, half lie between 6 % and 115 %. The median is 32 % and the mean 130 %.
Share of parcels by range
- below 50 %57 %
- 50 % to below 100 %14 %
- 100 % to below 150 %11 %
- 150 % and above19 %
Floor-area ratio (GFZ)
Of the 2’195 parcels with a value, half lie between 0.04 and 0.34. The median is 0.09 and the mean 0.20.
Share of parcels by range
- below 0.5086 %
- 0.50 to below 1.0011 %
- 1.00 to below 1.502 %
- 1.50 and above1 %
Building height
The parcel data has too few values for this measure here.
Number of floors
Of the 1’197 parcels with a value, half lie between 1.5 and 2.4. The median is 2.0 and the mean 2.0.
Share of parcels by range
- below 225 %
- 2 to below 354 %
- 3 to below 519 %
- 5 and above1 %
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 | 2’233 | 182 % |
| Last 60 years | 896 | 147 % |
| Last 40 years | 596 | 154 % |
| Last 20 years | 258 | 158 % |
| Last 15 years | 175 | 159 % |
| Last 10 years | 122 | 164 % |
| Last 5 years | 43 | 157 % |
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).