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Canton of Schaffhausen

Canton · Municipalities with height data: 26

Parcel data from Jul 2025, statistics computed on 29 Sept 2026.

In the canton of Schaffhausen, the parcel data holds a measured building height for 21’281 parcels. On a typical parcel the tallest building is 10 m high, and on 19 in 20 parcels it is 16.8 m or lower.

Key figures

Median building height
10 m
Switzerland: 9.5 m
Median floors
2

Switzerland: 2

Tallest building
75.9 m

Switzerland: 221.3 m

Parcels measured
21’281

1.4% of Switzerland

25 m or taller
122

0.6% of measured parcels

About the canton of Schaffhausen

For the canton of Schaffhausen, the parcel data holds a measured building height for 21’281 parcels. On half of them the tallest building is at most 10 m, on three quarters at most 12.2 m, and on 19 in 20 at most 16.8 m. The parcel data holds building heights for 26 of the canton’s 26 municipalities.

In the canton, the median building height, 10 m, is close to the Swiss median of 9.5 m. The tallest building measures 75.9 m. 58 parcels have a building of 30 m or taller.

The median floor count is 2, and the building with the most floors has 25. By median building height, the canton of Schaffhausen ranks 6th of 20 cantons with complete height data. Among its municipalities with at least 200 measured parcels, the highest median building heights are those of Schaffhausen (10.8 m), Beggingen (10.7 m) and Neuhausen am Rheinfall (10.7 m).

Building heights

The height of the tallest building on each parcel, over the 21’281 parcels with a measured height. Each percentile is the height that share of parcels stays at or below.

Building height percentiles
FigureHereSwitzerland
P25 (lower quartile)7.9 m7.8 m
P50 (median)10.0 m9.5 m
P75 (upper quartile)12.2 m11.5 m
P9516.8 m16.6 m
Tallest building75.9 m221.3 m

Parcels by building height

  • 0-3 m168
  • 3-6 m1’824
  • 6-9 m6’019
  • 9-12 m7’639
  • 12-15 m3’712
  • 15-18 m1’169
  • 18-21 m404
  • 21-24 m193
  • 24-27 m60
  • 27-30 m35
  • 30 m or taller58

Floors

The number of floors of the building with the most floors on each parcel, over the 15’308 parcels with a floor count. Median: 2, most floors: 25.

Parcels by number of floors

  • 1 floor1’203
  • 2 floors7’745
  • 3 floors4’665
  • 4 floors1’099
  • 5 floors405
  • 6 floors124
  • 7 floors28
  • 8 or more floors39

Tallest buildings

Parcels whose tallest building reaches at least the height in each row. The rows are cumulative: a parcel with a 60 m building also counts in every row below 60 m. The tallest building measures 75.9 m.

Parcels by tallest building
Tallest buildingParcelsShare of measured
15 m or taller1’9199%
25 m or taller1220.6%
30 m or taller580.3%
50 m or taller6< 0.1%
100 m or taller00%

Building height map for the canton of Schaffhausen

roofs maps building height for every parcel in the canton of Schaffhausen. Heights come from swisstopo swissBUILDINGS3D and the number of floors from the federal building register (GWR); where no height was measured, the map estimates it from the floors and marks it with a ~.

Municipalities in the canton of Schaffhausen

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