Chénens
Municipality in the canton of Fribourg · FSO no. 2177
Parcel data from Nov 2026, statistics computed on 29 Oct 2026.
Open map at the Chénens centerThe parcel data lists 846 parcels in Chénens, covering 3.9 km². 80.5% of them have at least one registered building. The median parcel measures 2’154 m².
Key figures
- Parcels
- 846
- 0.5% of the canton
- Total area
- 3.9 km²
- 0.2% of the canton
- Median area
- 2’154 m²
- Canton: 1’290 m²
- Switzerland: 881 m²
- Built share
- 80.5%
- Canton: 75.2%
- Switzerland: 51%
- Median year built
- 1998
- Canton: 1988
- Switzerland: 1975
About Chénens
Chénens ranks 74th of 119 municipalities in the canton of Fribourg by number of parcels and holds 0.5% of the canton's parcels on 0.2% of its area. The median parcel in Chénens measures 2’154 m², larger than the canton median of 1’290 m². Chénens is more built-up than the canton as a whole: 80.5% of its parcels have a building, against 75.2% across the canton.
The zones with the most parcels are Zone résidentielle faible densité (14.3%) and Zone centre village (7.4%). In total, Chénens uses 11 zone designations. In the data, 66.3% of the parcels have no zone designation.
According to the building register, Chénens has 473 buildings with 375 dwellings, 0.8 dwellings per building on average. Most residential buildings are single-family houses (78.2%). Non-residential buildings account for 37% of all buildings.
Built parcels most often have their newest building from 1981 to 2000 (9.4% of them), and 17.5% have one from 2001 or later. The median year built, 1998, is more recent than in the canton as a whole (1988).
Built and unbuilt parcels
Built: 681 (80.5%)
Unbuilt: 165 (19.5%)
Parcels by zone
| Zone | Parcels | Area | Built |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zone résidentielle faible densité | 121 | 0.11 km² | 90.9% |
| Zone centre village | 63 | 0.07 km² | 73.0% |
| Zone résid. à faible densité à presc.spéciales | 30 | 0.02 km² | 60.0% |
| Zone d'activités 2 | 21 | 0.06 km² | 71.4% |
| Zone mixte | 15 | 0.02 km² | 93.3% |
| Zone résidentielle à prescriptions spéciales | 14 | 0.01 km² | 85.7% |
| Zone d'activités 1 | 8 | 0.06 km² | 87.5% |
| Zone d'intérêt général | 6 | 0.02 km² | 50.0% |
| Zone d'activité de porcherie | 3 | 0.01 km² | 66.7% |
| Zone résidentielle moyenne densité | 3 | 0.01 km² | 100.0% |
| Zone CFF | 1 | < 0.01 km² | 100.0% |
| No zone | 561 | 3.51 km² | 80.2% |
Zone names are the municipal designations. A canton lists each wording separately.
Building stock
The building register lists 473 buildings with 375 dwellings here; 183 of them are single-family houses.
- Buildings
- 473
- Dwellings
- 375
- Single-family houses
- 183
- Building volume
- 488’506 m³
Buildings by category
Construction periods
Built parcels by construction period of their newest building
Maps and geodata for Chénens
geopool works as a GIS and geoportal for Chénens. 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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