St. Margrethen
Municipality in the canton of St. Gallen · FSO no. 3236
Parcel data from Jul 2025, statistics computed on 29 Sept 2026.
Open map at the St. Margrethen center
For St. Margrethen (SG), the parcel data holds a measured building height for 1’357 parcels. On a typical parcel the tallest building is 9.4 m high, and on 19 in 20 parcels it is 16.2 m or lower.
Key figures
- Median building height
- 9.4 m
- Canton: 9.6 m
- Switzerland: 9.5 m
- Median floors
- 2
Canton: 2
Switzerland: 2
- Tallest building
- 60.6 m
Canton: 77.9 m
Switzerland: 221.3 m
- Parcels measured
- 1’357
1.1% of the canton
- 25 m or taller
- 13
1% of measured parcels
About St. Margrethen
St. Margrethen is a municipality in the canton of St. Gallen. For St. Margrethen, the parcel data holds a measured building height for 1’357 parcels. On half of them the tallest building is at most 9.4 m, on three quarters at most 11.5 m, and on 19 in 20 at most 16.2 m.
For St. Margrethen, the median building height, 9.4 m, is close to the canton median of 9.6 m. The tallest building measures 60.6 m. 6 parcels have a building of 30 m or taller.
The median floor count is 2, and the building with the most floors has 8. By median building height, St. Margrethen ranks 50th of 74 municipalities in the canton with complete height data.
Building heights
The height of the tallest building on each parcel, over the 1’357 parcels with a measured height. Each percentile is the height that share of parcels stays at or below.
| Figure | Here | Canton | Switzerland |
|---|---|---|---|
| P25 (lower quartile) | 8.1 m | 8.1 m | 7.8 m |
| P50 (median) | 9.4 m | 9.6 m | 9.5 m |
| P75 (upper quartile) | 11.5 m | 11.5 m | 11.5 m |
| P95 | 16.2 m | 16.3 m | 16.6 m |
| Tallest building | 60.6 m | 77.9 m | 221.3 m |
Parcels by building height
Floors
The number of floors of the building with the most floors on each parcel, over the 1’010 parcels with a floor count. Median: 2, most floors: 8.
Parcels by number of floors
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 60.6 m.
| Tallest building | Parcels | Share of measured |
|---|---|---|
| 15 m or taller | 102 | 7.5% |
| 25 m or taller | 13 | 1% |
| 30 m or taller | 6 | 0.4% |
| 50 m or taller | 2 | 0.1% |
| 100 m or taller | 0 | 0% |
Building height map for St. Margrethen
roofs maps building height for every parcel in St. Margrethen. 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 ~.
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