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Canton of Fribourg

Canton · 119 municipalities with parcel data

Parcel data from Nov 2026, statistics computed on 29 Oct 2026.

The parcel data lists 167’231 parcels in the canton of Fribourg, covering 1’655 km². 75.2% of them have at least one registered building. The median parcel measures 1’290 m².

Key figures

Parcels
167’231
4.3% of Switzerland
Total area
1’655 km²
4.4% of Switzerland
Median area
1’290 m²
Switzerland: 881 m²
Built share
75.2%
Switzerland: 51%
Median year built
1988
Switzerland: 1975

About the canton of Fribourg

The canton of Fribourg ranks 9th of the 25 cantons with largely complete parcel data by number of parcels and 8th by total parcel area. Of its 119 municipalities with parcel data, Estavayer (5’504), Murten (5’203) and Gibloux (4’807) have the most parcels, which together hold 9.3% of the canton's parcels. In the data, 45.7% of the parcels have no zone designation.

The median parcel in the canton measures 1’290 m², larger than the Swiss median of 881 m². The canton is more built-up than Switzerland as a whole: 75.2% of its parcels have a building, against 51% nationwide. Among its municipalities with at least 500 parcels, Avry has the highest share of built parcels (88.4%) and Fétigny-Ménières the lowest (43.5%). Saint-Martin (FR) has the largest median parcel (3’140 m²) and Gletterens the smallest (551 m²).

According to the building register, a building in the canton holds 1.1 dwellings on average, against 1.5 across Switzerland. Most residential buildings are single-family houses (67.5%, against 63.6% across Switzerland). Non-residential buildings account for 43.2% of all buildings.

Built parcels most often have their newest building from 1981 to 2000 (16% of them), and 20.7% have one from 2001 or later. The median year built, 1988, is more recent than in Switzerland as a whole (1975).

Built and unbuilt parcels

Built: 125’738 (75.2%)

Unbuilt: 41’493 (24.8%)

Parcels by zone

Parcels by zone, the 12 largest zones first
ZoneParcelsAreaBuilt
Zone résidentielle à faible densité12’75712.60 km²89.0%
Zone résidentielle faible densité4’4844.54 km²88.4%
Wohnzone schwacher Dichte4’1123.21 km²88.8%
Zone résidentielle à faible densité I3’9043.93 km²89.5%
Zone village2’5812.72 km²80.8%
Zone de centre2’1852.72 km²84.3%
Zone de centre village1’7771.99 km²84.2%
Zone de gravière1’42512.62 km²13.5%
Zone résidentielle à moyenne densité1’3161.72 km²87.7%
Zone résidentielle à faible densité 21’1211.05 km²91.8%
Wohnzone niederer Dichte1’0570.76 km²88.8%
Zone centre village1’0321.25 km²85.8%
Other zones (793 labels)53’118343.56 km²76.6%
No zone76’3621’262.26 km²69.4%

Zone names are the municipal designations. A canton lists each wording separately.

Building stock

The building register lists 157’070 buildings with 172’461 dwellings here; 49’254 of them are single-family houses.

Buildings
157’070
Dwellings
172’461
Single-family houses
49’254
Building volume
202.5 million m³

Buildings by category

  • Residential72’935
  • Mixed use3’168
  • Non-residential67’787
  • Other13’180

Construction periods

Built parcels by construction period of their newest building

  • Before 19209’611
  • 1920-19453’555
  • 1946-19604’342
  • 1961-198011’161
  • 1981-200020’056
  • 2001-201012’858
  • 2011-20209’941
  • 2021 and later3’169
  • Unknown year51’045

Maps and geodata for the canton of Fribourg

geopool works as a GIS and geoportal for the canton of Fribourg. Its parcel map shows the parcels of the official cadastral survey with their area, their zone from the municipal zoning plan and their buildings, on swisstopo maps. Building zones, the property map and the geodata of each parcel open on the geopool map. The ÖREB extract of a parcel (public-law restrictions on landownership) is in lookup.

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