Vacallo
Municipality in the canton of Ticino · FSO no. 5268
Parcel data from Nov 2026, statistics computed on 29 Oct 2026.
Open map at the Vacallo centerThe parcel data lists 1’151 parcels in Vacallo, covering 1.6 km². 55.4% of them have at least one registered building. The median parcel measures 726 m².
Key figures
- Parcels
- 1’151
- 0.4% of the canton
- Total area
- 1.6 km²
- 0.1% of the canton
- Median area
- 726 m²
- Canton: 718 m²
- Switzerland: 881 m²
- Built share
- 55.4%
- Canton: 42.8%
- Switzerland: 51%
- Median year built
- 1975
- Canton: 1958
- Switzerland: 1975
About Vacallo
Vacallo is a municipality in the canton of Ticino and holds 0.4% of the canton's parcels in the data, on 0.1% of their area. The median parcel in Vacallo measures 726 m², about the same as the canton median of 718 m². Vacallo is more built-up than the canton as a whole: 55.4% of its parcels have a building, against 42.8% across the canton.
The zones with the most parcels are Zona forestale (18.9%) and Autostrada A2 (17.3%). In total, Vacallo uses 5 zone designations. In the data, 61.3% of the parcels have no zone designation.
According to the building register, Vacallo has 994 buildings with 2’046 dwellings, 2.1 dwellings per building on average. Residential buildings mix single-family houses and buildings with several dwellings: single-family houses make up 57.8% of them. Non-residential buildings account for 29.5% of all buildings.
Built parcels most often have their newest building from 1946 to 1960 (19.4% of them), and 11.4% have one from 2001 or later. The median year built, 1975, is more recent than in the canton as a whole (1958).
Built and unbuilt parcels
Built: 638 (55.4%)
Unbuilt: 513 (44.6%)
Parcels by zone
| Zone | Parcels | Area | Built |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zona forestale | 217 | 0.55 km² | 9.2% |
| Autostrada A2 | 199 | 0.28 km² | 97.0% |
| Centro sportivo Mercole | 21 | 0.03 km² | 90.5% |
| Zona agricola | 8 | 0.03 km² | 75.0% |
| Corso d'acqua | 1 | < 0.01 km² | 0.0% |
| No zone | 705 | 0.75 km² | 56.7% |
Zone names are the municipal designations. A canton lists each wording separately.
Building stock
The building register lists 994 buildings with 2’046 dwellings here; 402 of them are single-family houses.
- Buildings
- 994
- Dwellings
- 2’046
- Single-family houses
- 402
- Building volume
- 1.4 million m³
Buildings by category
Construction periods
Built parcels by construction period of their newest building
Maps and geodata for Vacallo
geopool works as a GIS and geoportal for Vacallo. 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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