Niederhelfenschwil

Niederhelfenschwil ranks 49th of 75 municipalities in the canton of St. Gallen by number of parcels and holds 0.9% of the canton's parcels on 0.8% of its area. The median parcel in Niederhelfenschwil measures 1’201 m², larger than the canton median of 950 m². Niederhelfenschwil is less built-up than the canton as a whole: 55.5% of its parcels have a building, against 66.4% across the canton.

The zones with the most parcels are BauG Landwirtschaftszone (29.5%), BauG Wohnzone WE (16.7%) and Hinweis.Wald (16.2%). In total, Niederhelfenschwil uses 19 zone designations.

According to the building register, Niederhelfenschwil has 1’680 buildings with 1’381 dwellings, 0.8 dwellings per building on average. Most residential buildings are single-family houses (79.8%). Non-residential buildings account for 41.5% of all buildings.

Built parcels most often have their newest building from 1981 to 2000 (32.9% of them), and 33.5% have one from 2001 or later. The median year built, 1993, is more recent than in the canton as a whole (1977).

geopool works as a GIS and geoportal for Niederhelfenschwil. 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.