Bulle
Municipality in the canton of Fribourg · FSO no. 2125
Parcel data from Nov 2026, statistics computed on 29 Oct 2026.
Open map at the Bulle centerThe parcel data lists 4’150 parcels in Bulle, covering 23.8 km². 83.8% of them have at least one registered building. The median parcel measures 895 m².
Key figures
- Parcels
- 4’150
- 2.5% of the canton
- Total area
- 23.8 km²
- 1.4% of the canton
- Median area
- 895 m²
- Canton: 1’290 m²
- Switzerland: 881 m²
- Built share
- 83.8%
- Canton: 75.2%
- Switzerland: 51%
- Median year built
- 1993
- Canton: 1988
- Switzerland: 1975
About Bulle
Bulle ranks 7th of 119 municipalities in the canton of Fribourg by number of parcels and holds 2.5% of the canton's parcels on 1.4% of its area. The median parcel in Bulle measures 895 m², smaller than the canton median of 1’290 m². Bulle is more built-up than the canton as a whole: 83.8% of its parcels have a building, against 75.2% across the canton.
The zones with the most parcels are Zone résidentielle à faible densité (29.6%), Zone résidentielle à moyenne densité (13.4%) and Zone péricentrale II (9.7%). In total, Bulle uses 20 zone designations. In the data, 17.9% of the parcels have no zone designation.
According to the building register, Bulle has 5’902 buildings with 13’227 dwellings, 2.2 dwellings per building on average. Residential buildings mix single-family houses and buildings with several dwellings: single-family houses make up 51.9% of them. Non-residential buildings account for 39.6% of all buildings.
Built parcels most often have their newest building from 1981 to 2000 (22.7% of them), and 30.7% have one from 2001 or later. The median year built, 1993, is close to that of the canton as a whole (1988).
Built and unbuilt parcels
Built: 3’479 (83.8%)
Unbuilt: 671 (16.2%)
Parcels by zone
| Zone | Parcels | Area | Built |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zone résidentielle à faible densité | 1’228 | 1.14 km² | 91.4% |
| Zone résidentielle à moyenne densité | 555 | 0.57 km² | 91.0% |
| Zone péricentrale II | 404 | 0.44 km² | 89.4% |
| Zone de centre | 325 | 0.44 km² | 84.6% |
| Zone de l'ancienne ville | 216 | 0.17 km² | 91.7% |
| Zone péricentrale I | 197 | 0.61 km² | 82.7% |
| Zone résidentielle à haute densité I | 186 | 0.50 km² | 90.9% |
| Zone d'activités I | 75 | 0.80 km² | 69.3% |
| Zone d'activités II | 57 | 0.22 km² | 75.4% |
| Zone d'intérêt général I | 46 | 0.41 km² | 73.9% |
| Zone résidentielle à haute densité II | 37 | 0.14 km² | 81.1% |
| Zone mixte du Terraillet | 19 | 0.17 km² | 10.5% |
| Other zones (8 labels) | 63 | 1.30 km² | 23.8% |
| No zone | 742 | 16.90 km² | 68.6% |
Zone names are the municipal designations. A canton lists each wording separately.
Building stock
The building register lists 5’902 buildings with 13’227 dwellings here; 1’486 of them are single-family houses.
- Buildings
- 5’902
- Dwellings
- 13’227
- Single-family houses
- 1’486
- Building volume
- 12.6 million m³
Buildings by category
Construction periods
Built parcels by construction period of their newest building
Maps and geodata for Bulle
geopool works as a GIS and geoportal for Bulle. 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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