Saas-Fee: observed built density
Municipality in the canton of Valais · FSO no. 6290 · 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
- 2’915
< 1 % of the canton
- Municipal zones
- 19
- Median utilization
- 7 %
Canton: 7 %
Switzerland: 10 %
- Median GFZ
- 0.07
Canton: 0.07
Switzerland: 0.09
- Median height
- 11.4 m
Canton: 8.4 m
Switzerland: 9.5 m
- Median floors
- 3.4
Canton: 2.3
Switzerland: 2.3
About Saas-Fee
Saas-Fee is a municipality in the canton of Valais. The parcel data lists 2’915 parcels in 19 municipal zone types. The zone types with the most parcels are Landwirtschaftszone (751), Wohnzone 1 (446) and Wohnzone 2 (435).
The median parcel is built to a volume utilization of 7 %; half of the parcels lie between 3 % and 51 %. The canton median is 7 %, close to the level of Saas-Fee.
The median building height is 11.4 m at 3.4 floors, and the median floor-area ratio (GFZ) is 0.07. Parcels built in the last 20 years reach a mean volume utilization of 156 % (126 parcels), lower than the 1’699 % across all building years.
Parcels by municipal zone
| Zone | Parcels | Median utilization |
|---|---|---|
| Landwirtschaftszone | 751 | 0 % |
| Wohnzone 1 | 446 | 49 % |
| Wohnzone 2 | 435 | 0 % |
| Wald | 311 | 0 % |
| Ortsbild-Schutzzone | 251 | 45 % |
| Kernzone | 138 | 101 % |
| - | 104 | 0 % |
| Wohnzone 2A | 88 | 0 % |
| Wohnzone 3 | 83 | 0 % |
| Wohnzone 4 | 75 | 0 % |
| Wohnzone 2 zweite Erschliessungspriorität | 66 | 0 % |
| Wohnzone 5 | 66 | 0 % |
| Other zones (7) | 101 | - |
Volume utilization (ratioV)
Of the 2’889 parcels with a value, half lie between 3 % and 51 %. The median is 7 % and the mean 1’360 %.
Share of parcels by range
- below 50 %75 %
- 50 % to below 100 %7 %
- 100 % to below 150 %9 %
- 150 % and above10 %
Floor-area ratio (GFZ)
Of the 2’889 parcels with a value, half lie between 0.03 and 0.32. The median is 0.07 and the mean 0.33.
Share of parcels by range
- below 0.5078 %
- 0.50 to below 1.007 %
- 1.00 to below 1.508 %
- 1.50 and above8 %
Building height
Of the 756 parcels with a value, half lie between 9.0 m and 14.1 m. The median is 11.4 m and the mean 11.6 m.
Share of parcels by range
- below 8 m16 %
- 8 m to below 12 m41 %
- 12 m to below 20 m42 %
- 20 m and above2 %
Number of floors
Of the 634 parcels with a value, half lie between 2.7 and 4.4. The median is 3.4 and the mean 3.6.
Share of parcels by range
- below 22 %
- 2 to below 315 %
- 3 to below 560 %
- 5 and above23 %
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 | 2’915 | 1’699 % |
| Last 60 years | 503 | 6’165 % |
| Last 40 years | 326 | 2’107 % |
| Last 20 years | 126 | 156 % |
| Last 15 years | 75 | 193 % |
| Last 10 years | 44 | 218 % |
| Last 5 years | 20 | 124 % |
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).