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Visperterminen: observed built density

Municipality in the canton of Valais · FSO no. 6298 · 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
7’931

1 % of the canton

Municipal zones
29
Median utilization
6 %

Canton: 7 %

Switzerland: 10 %

Median GFZ
0.06

Canton: 0.07

Switzerland: 0.09

Median height
7.9 m

Canton: 8.4 m

Switzerland: 9.5 m

Median floors
2.5

Canton: 2.3

Switzerland: 2.3

About Visperterminen

Visperterminen is a municipality in the canton of Valais. The parcel data lists 7’931 parcels in 29 municipal zone types. The zone types with the most parcels are Rebbau (2’126), Landwirtschaftszone 1. Priorität (1’248) and Landwirtschaftszone 2. Priorität (inkl. Sömmerungs- + Alpweiden) (1’176).

The median parcel is built to a volume utilization of 6 %; half of the parcels lie between 3 % and 9 %. The canton median is 7 %, close to the level of Visperterminen.

The median building height is 7.9 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 106 % (70 parcels), higher than the 28 % across all building years.

Parcels by municipal zone

Municipal zone types with their parcel count and median volume utilization
ZoneParcelsMedian utilization
Rebbau2’1260 %
Landwirtschaftszone 1. Priorität1’2480 %
Landwirtschaftszone 2. Priorität (inkl. Sömmerungs- + Alpweiden)1’1760 %
Dorfzone831111 %
Dorfzone D1 (Weilerzone)430-
GLZ - Geschützte Landwirtschaftszone von kantonaler Bedeutung3750 %
Verkehr (Strassen, Wege, Plätze)3400 %
Wohnzone W23120 %
Wald (provisorisch)3100 %
Wohnzone W319254 %
Wohnzone W2 (2. Erschliessungs - Etappe)1570 %
Zone mit unbestimmter Nutzung1060 %
Other zones (16)328-

Volume utilization (ratioV)

Of the 7’873 parcels with a value, half lie between 3 % and 9 %. The median is 6 % and the mean 25 %.

0 %300 %+

Share of parcels by range

  • below 50 %85 %
  • 50 % to below 100 %5 %
  • 100 % to below 150 %4 %
  • 150 % and above6 %

Floor-area ratio (GFZ)

Of the 7’873 parcels with a value, half lie between 0.03 and 0.09. The median is 0.06 and the mean 0.20.

0.003.00+

Share of parcels by range

  • below 0.5085 %
  • 0.50 to below 1.007 %
  • 1.00 to below 1.505 %
  • 1.50 and above4 %

Building height

Of the 1’461 parcels with a value, half lie between 6.7 m and 9.9 m. The median is 7.9 m and the mean 8.6 m.

0 m60 m+

Share of parcels by range

  • below 8 m53 %
  • 8 m to below 12 m34 %
  • 12 m to below 20 m13 %
  • 20 m and above< 1 %

Number of floors

Of the 537 parcels with a value, half lie between 1.9 and 3.2. The median is 2.5 and the mean 2.6.

016+

Share of parcels by range

  • below 26 %
  • 2 to below 343 %
  • 3 to below 549 %
  • 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 inParcelsMean utilization
All years7’93128 %
Last 60 years337134 %
Last 40 years187128 %
Last 20 years70106 %
Last 15 years46108 %
Last 10 years29100 %
Last 5 years1094 %

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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).