Kerns: observed built density
Municipality in the canton of Obwalden · FSO no. 1404 · Parcel data as of July 2025
- Parcels
- 2’595
15 % of the canton
- Municipal zones
- 28
- Median utilization
- 51 %
Canton: 42 %
Switzerland: 10 %
- Median GFZ
- 0.09
Canton: 0.10
Switzerland: 0.09
- Median height
- -
Canton: -
Switzerland: 9.5 m
- Median floors
- 2.4
Canton: 2.3
Switzerland: 2.3
About Kerns
Kerns is a municipality in the canton of Obwalden. The parcel data lists 2’595 parcels in 28 municipal zone types. The zone types with the most parcels are Landwirtschaftszone (897), Zweigeschossige Wohnzone (422) and Wald (252).
The median parcel is built to a volume utilization of 51 %; half of the parcels lie between 7 % and 113 %. The canton median is 42 %, so Kerns sits above it.
Parcels built in the last 20 years reach a mean volume utilization of 244 % (374 parcels), lower than the 526 % across all building years.
Parcels by municipal zone
| Zone | Parcels | Median utilization |
|---|---|---|
| Landwirtschaftszone | 897 | 22 % |
| Zweigeschossige Wohnzone | 422 | 102 % |
| Wald | 252 | 0 % |
| Dreigeschossige Wohnzone | 160 | 66 % |
| Alpwirtschaftszone | 148 | 136 % |
| Dreigeschossige Wohn- und Gewerbezone | 143 | 74 % |
| Dorfkernzone | 136 | 69 % |
| Zweigeschossige Wohnzone in empfindlicher Lage | 85 | 88 % |
| Verkehrszone | 63 | 0 % |
| Verkehrsfläche | 47 | 0 % |
| Zone St. Niklausen | 42 | 84 % |
| Zweigeschossige Ferienhauszone | 33 | 54 % |
| Other zones (16) | 167 | - |
Volume utilization (ratioV)
Of the 2’562 parcels with a value, half lie between 7 % and 113 %. The median is 51 % and the mean 461 %.
Share of parcels by range
- below 50 %49 %
- 50 % to below 100 %21 %
- 100 % to below 150 %12 %
- 150 % and above18 %
Floor-area ratio (GFZ)
Of the 2’562 parcels with a value, half lie between 0.05 and 0.48. The median is 0.09 and the mean 0.30.
Share of parcels by range
- below 0.5076 %
- 0.50 to below 1.0018 %
- 1.00 to below 1.504 %
- 1.50 and above2 %
Building height
The parcel data has too few values for this measure here.
Number of floors
Of the 1’058 parcels with a value, half lie between 1.8 and 3.1. The median is 2.4 and the mean 2.5.
Share of parcels by range
- below 29 %
- 2 to below 346 %
- 3 to below 543 %
- 5 and above2 %
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 | 2’595 | 526 % |
| Last 60 years | 1’316 | 466 % |
| Last 40 years | 884 | 355 % |
| Last 20 years | 374 | 244 % |
| Last 15 years | 246 | 185 % |
| Last 10 years | 143 | 180 % |
| Last 5 years | 42 | 186 % |
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).