Rain
Municipality in the canton of Lucerne · FSO no. 1037
Parcel data from Nov 2026, statistics computed on 29 Oct 2026.
Open map at the Rain centerThe parcel data lists 892 parcels in Rain, covering 9.5 km². 65.5% of them have at least one registered building. The median parcel measures 1’143 m².
Key figures
- Parcels
- 892
- 0.7% of the canton
- Total area
- 9.5 km²
- 0.6% of the canton
- Median area
- 1’143 m²
- Canton: 1’199 m²
- Switzerland: 881 m²
- Built share
- 65.5%
- Canton: 63.1%
- Switzerland: 51%
- Median year built
- 2000
- Canton: 1988
- Switzerland: 1975
About Rain
Rain is a municipality in the canton of Lucerne and holds 0.7% of the canton's parcels on 0.6% of its area. The median parcel in Rain measures 1’143 m², about the same as the canton median of 1’199 m². Rain is about as built-up as the canton as a whole: 65.5% of its parcels have a building, against 63.1% across the canton.
The zones with the most parcels are 2-geschossige Wohnzone b (21.4%), Landwirtschaftszone (20%) and Wald (16.5%). In total, Rain uses 17 zone designations.
According to the building register, Rain has 1’041 buildings with 1’387 dwellings, 1.3 dwellings per building on average. Residential buildings mix single-family houses and buildings with several dwellings: single-family houses make up 56.5% of them. Non-residential buildings account for 41.3% of all buildings.
Built parcels most often have their newest building from 1981 to 2000 (25.2% of them), and 47.1% have one from 2001 or later. The median year built, 2000, is more recent than in the canton as a whole (1988).
Built and unbuilt parcels
Built: 584 (65.5%)
Unbuilt: 308 (34.5%)
Parcels by zone
| Zone | Parcels | Area | Built |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2-geschossige Wohnzone b | 191 | 0.15 km² | 93.7% |
| Landwirtschaftszone | 178 | 7.37 km² | 54.5% |
| Wald | 147 | 1.17 km² | 3.4% |
| 3-geschossige Wohnzone a | 89 | 0.11 km² | 83.1% |
| 2½-geschossige Wohnzone | 72 | 0.06 km² | 88.9% |
| Dorfzone | 64 | 0.06 km² | 82.8% |
| Arbeitszone | 50 | 0.12 km² | 84.0% |
| 3-geschossige Wohnzone b | 35 | 0.03 km² | 91.4% |
| 2-geschossige Wohnzone a | 26 | 0.02 km² | 73.1% |
| Zone für öffentliche Zwecke | 14 | 0.05 km² | 57.1% |
| Übriges Gebiet A | 8 | 0.09 km² | 12.5% |
| 2½-geschossige Wohn- + Gewerbezone | 5 | 0.01 km² | 80.0% |
| Other zones (5 labels) | 13 | 0.21 km² | 46.2% |
Zone names are the municipal designations. A canton lists each wording separately.
Building stock
The building register lists 1’041 buildings with 1’387 dwellings here; 300 of them are single-family houses.
- Buildings
- 1’041
- Dwellings
- 1’387
- Single-family houses
- 300
- Building volume
- 1.5 million m³
Buildings by category
Construction periods
Built parcels by construction period of their newest building
Maps and geodata for Rain
geopool works as a GIS and geoportal for Rain. 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.