Wangen-Brüttisellen: observed built density
Municipality in the canton of Zurich · FSO no. 200 · Parcel data as of July 2025
- Parcels
- 3’106
1 % of the canton
- Municipal zones
- 26
- Median utilization
- 8 %
Canton: 40 %
Switzerland: 10 %
- Median GFZ
- 0.08
Canton: 0.22
Switzerland: 0.09
- Median height
- 9.6 m
Canton: 10.5 m
Switzerland: 9.5 m
- Median floors
- 2.7
Canton: 2.8
Switzerland: 2.3
About Wangen-Brüttisellen
Wangen-Brüttisellen is a municipality in the canton of Zurich. The parcel data lists 3’106 parcels in 26 municipal zone types. The zone types with the most parcels are Kantonale Landwirtschaftszone (713), Wohnzone 2 30% (671) and Wald (575).
The median parcel is built to a volume utilization of 8 %; half of the parcels lie between 4 % and 73 %. The canton median is 40 %, so Wangen-Brüttisellen sits below it.
The median building height is 9.6 m at 2.7 floors, and the median floor-area ratio (GFZ) is 0.08. Parcels built in the last 20 years reach a mean volume utilization of 107 % (204 parcels), higher than the 39 % across all building years.
Parcels by municipal zone
| Zone | Parcels | Median utilization |
|---|---|---|
| Kantonale Landwirtschaftszone | 713 | 0 % |
| Wohnzone 2 30% | 671 | 79 % |
| Wald | 575 | 0 % |
| Kernzone A | 247 | 69 % |
| Wohnzone 2 50% | 195 | 73 % |
| Kernzone B | 150 | 52 % |
| 3-geschossige Wohnzone 60% | 113 | 74 % |
| Kantonale Freihaltezone | 95 | 0 % |
| Freihaltezone | 76 | 0 % |
| Reservezone | 43 | 0 % |
| Gewerbezone 4 | 36 | 4 % |
| Zentrumszone 4 130% | 35 | 0 % |
| Other zones (14) | 157 | - |
Volume utilization (ratioV)
Of the 3’076 parcels with a value, half lie between 4 % and 73 %. The median is 8 % and the mean 37 %.
Share of parcels by range
- below 50 %65 %
- 50 % to below 100 %22 %
- 100 % to below 150 %9 %
- 150 % and above4 %
Floor-area ratio (GFZ)
Of the 3’075 parcels with a value, half lie between 0.04 and 0.54. The median is 0.08 and the mean 0.28.
Share of parcels by range
- below 0.5073 %
- 0.50 to below 1.0020 %
- 1.00 to below 1.506 %
- 1.50 and above1 %
Building height
Of the 1’237 parcels with a value, half lie between 8.2 m and 11.4 m. The median is 9.6 m and the mean 9.9 m.
Share of parcels by range
- below 8 m22 %
- 8 m to below 12 m61 %
- 12 m to below 20 m17 %
- 20 m and above< 1 %
Number of floors
Of the 974 parcels with a value, half lie between 2.1 and 3.2. The median is 2.7 and the mean 2.7.
Share of parcels by range
- below 25 %
- 2 to below 334 %
- 3 to below 559 %
- 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 | 3’106 | 39 % |
| Last 60 years | 1’003 | 94 % |
| Last 40 years | 825 | 96 % |
| Last 20 years | 204 | 107 % |
| Last 15 years | 102 | 105 % |
| Last 10 years | 73 | 109 % |
| Last 5 years | 21 | 106 % |
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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).