Goms: observed built density
Municipality in the canton of Valais · FSO no. 6077 · Parcel data as of July 2025
The parcel data covers only part of the land in the canton of Valais, so figures here may be incomplete.
- Parcels
- 19’729
3 % of the canton
- Municipal zones
- 87
- Median utilization
- 6 %
Canton: 7 %
Switzerland: 10 %
- Median GFZ
- 0.06
Canton: 0.07
Switzerland: 0.09
- Median height
- 8.4 m
Canton: 8.4 m
Switzerland: 9.5 m
- Median floors
- 2.5
Canton: 2.3
Switzerland: 2.3
About Goms
Goms is a municipality in the canton of Valais. The parcel data lists 19’729 parcels in 87 municipal zone types. The zone types with the most parcels are Landwirtschaftszone 1 (5’300), Landwirtschaftszone 1. Priorität (3’118) and Landwirtschaftszone 2. Priorität (2’082).
The median parcel is built to a volume utilization of 6 %; half of the parcels lie between 3 % and 8 %. The canton median is 7 %, so Goms sits below it.
The median building height is 8.4 m at 2.5 floors, and the median floor-area ratio (GFZ) is 0.06. Parcels built in the last 20 years reach a mean volume utilization of 102 % (122 parcels), higher than the 25 % across all building years.
Parcels by municipal zone
| Zone | Parcels | Median utilization |
|---|---|---|
| Landwirtschaftszone 1 | 5’300 | 0 % |
| Landwirtschaftszone 1. Priorität | 3’118 | 0 % |
| Landwirtschaftszone 2. Priorität | 2’082 | 0 % |
| Landwirtschaftszone 2 | 1’752 | 0 % |
| Geschützte Landwirtschaftszone | 983 | 0 % |
| Landwirtschaftszonen 1. Priorität LZ 1 | 830 | 0 % |
| Wald | 669 | 0 % |
| Dorfkernzone | 649 | 89 % |
| Landwirtschaftszonen 2. Priorität LZ 2 | 612 | 0 % |
| Dorfzone | 555 | 63 % |
| Dorfzone (Erschliessungsstand a) | 325 | 50 % |
| Dorferweiterungszone | 294 | 0 % |
| Other zones (73) | 2’560 | - |
Volume utilization (ratioV)
Of the 19’578 parcels with a value, half lie between 3 % and 8 %. The median is 6 % and the mean 18 %.
Share of parcels by range
- below 50 %91 %
- 50 % to below 100 %3 %
- 100 % to below 150 %3 %
- 150 % and above3 %
Floor-area ratio (GFZ)
Of the 19’574 parcels with a value, half lie between 0.03 and 0.08. The median is 0.06 and the mean 0.10.
Share of parcels by range
- below 0.5093 %
- 0.50 to below 1.003 %
- 1.00 to below 1.502 %
- 1.50 and above2 %
Building height
Of the 1’943 parcels with a value, half lie between 7.0 m and 9.9 m. The median is 8.4 m and the mean 8.6 m.
Share of parcels by range
- below 8 m43 %
- 8 m to below 12 m51 %
- 12 m to below 20 m6 %
- 20 m and above0 %
Number of floors
Of the 1’162 parcels with a value, half lie between 1.9 and 3.1. The median is 2.5 and the mean 2.5.
Share of parcels by range
- below 27 %
- 2 to below 344 %
- 3 to below 548 %
- 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 | 19’729 | 25 % |
| Last 60 years | 587 | 112 % |
| Last 40 years | 369 | 118 % |
| Last 20 years | 122 | 102 % |
| Last 15 years | 89 | 99 % |
| Last 10 years | 63 | 92 % |
| Last 5 years | 33 | 93 % |
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).