Lully, Vaud
Encyclopedia
Lully is a municipality
in the Swiss
canton
of Vaud
, located in the district of Morges
.
Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 13.7% and transportation infrastructure made up 6.3%. Out of the forested land, all of the forested land area is covered with heavy forests. Of the agricultural land, 42.4% is used for growing crops and 4.4% is pastures, while 18.0% is used for orchards or vine crops.
The municipality was part of the Morges District until it was dissolved on 31 August 2006, and Lully became part of the new district of Morges.
The municipality is located westward of the Morges river. It consists of the village of Lully and the hamlet
of Sécheron.
of the municipal coat of arms
is Azure, a Bend Or and a Cross bottony Argent.
Most of the population speaks French
(566 or 85.4%), with German
being second most common (46 or 6.9%) and English
being third (19 or 2.9%). There are 6 people who speak Italian
.
Of the population in the municipality 114 or about 17.2% were born in Lully and lived there in 2000. There were 286 or 43.1% who were born in the same canton, while 121 or 18.3% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 118 or 17.8% were born outside of Switzerland.
In there were 8 live births to Swiss citizens and 2 births to non-Swiss citizens, and in same time span there was 1 death of a Swiss citizen. Ignoring immigration and emigration, the population of Swiss citizens increased by 7 while the foreign population increased by 2. There were 2 Swiss women who immigrated back to Switzerland. At the same time, there were 7 non-Swiss men and 5 non-Swiss women who immigrated from another country to Switzerland. The total Swiss population change in 2008 (from all sources, including moves across municipal borders) was an increase of 10 and the non-Swiss population increased by 16 people. This represents a population growth rate of 3.4%.
The age distribution, , in Lully is; 89 children or 11.4% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 139 teenagers or 17.8% are between 10 and 19. Of the adult population, 81 people or 10.4% of the population are between 20 and 29 years old. 101 people or 13.0% are between 30 and 39, 119 people or 15.3% are between 40 and 49, and 103 people or 13.2% are between 50 and 59. The senior population distribution is 86 people or 11.0% of the population are between 60 and 69 years old, 38 people or 4.9% are between 70 and 79, there are 16 people or 2.1% who are between 80 and 89, and there are 7 people or 0.9% who are 90 and older.
, there were 288 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 334 married individuals, 21 widows or widowers and 20 individuals who are divorced.
the average number of residents per living room was 0.56 which is about equal to the cantonal average of 0.61 per room. In this case, a room is defined as space of a housing unit of at least 4 m² (43 sq ft) as normal bedrooms, dining rooms, living rooms, kitchens and habitable cellars and attics. About 64.6% of the total households were owner occupied, or in other words did not pay rent (though they may have a mortgage
or a rent-to-own agreement).
, there were 236 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.7 persons per household. There were 47 households that consist of only one person and 34 households with five or more people. Out of a total of 242 households that answered this question, 19.4% were households made up of just one person. Of the rest of the households, there are 64 married couples without children, 105 married couples with children There were 15 single parents with a child or children. There were 5 households that were made up of unrelated people and 6 households that were made up of some sort of institution or another collective housing.
there were 126 single family homes (or 69.6% of the total) out of a total of 181 inhabited buildings. There were 27 multi-family buildings (14.9%), along with 22 multi-purpose buildings that were mostly used for housing (12.2%) and 6 other use buildings (commercial or industrial) that also had some housing (3.3%). Of the single family homes 15 were built before 1919, while 24 were built between 1990 and 2000. The greatest number of single family homes (36) were built between 1971 and 1980. The most multi-family homes (10) were built between 1961 and 1970 and the next most (8) were built before 1919. There were 2 multi-family houses built between 1996 and 2000.
there were 251 apartments in the municipality. The most common apartment size was 4 rooms of which there were 64. There were 8 single room apartments and 128 apartments with five or more rooms. Of these apartments, a total of 226 apartments (90.0% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 16 apartments (6.4%) were seasonally occupied and 9 apartments (3.6%) were empty. , the construction rate of new housing units was 0 new units per 1000 residents. The vacancy rate for the municipality, , was 0%.
The historical population is given in the following chart:
the most popular party was the Green Party
which received 19.74% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SVP
(18.59%), the SP
(17.79%) and the FDP
(13.48%). In the federal election, a total of 251 votes were cast, and the voter turnout
was 54.0%.
the total number of full-time equivalent
jobs was 67. The number of jobs in the primary sector was 20, all of which were in agriculture. The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 6 of which 5 or (83.3%) were in manufacturing and 1 was in construction. The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 41. In the tertiary sector; 7 or 17.1% were in the sale or repair of motor vehicles, 1 was in the movement and storage of goods, 11 or 26.8% were technical professionals or scientists, 5 or 12.2% were in education and 14 or 34.1% were in health care.
, there were 36 workers who commuted into the municipality and 254 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 7.1 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering. Of the working population, 10.3% used public transportation to get to work, and 71.3% used a private car.
. Of the rest of the population, there were 7 members of an Orthodox church
(or about 1.06% of the population), there was 1 individual who belongs to the Christian Catholic Church
, and there were 38 individuals (or about 5.73% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There was 1 individual who was Islam
ic. There was 1 person who was Hindu
. 113 (or about 17.04% of the population) belonged to no church, are agnostic
or atheist
, and 43 individuals (or about 6.49% of the population) did not answer the question.
). Of the 159 who completed tertiary schooling, 55.3% were Swiss men, 29.6% were Swiss women, 9.4% were non-Swiss men and 5.7% were non-Swiss women.
In the 2009/2010 school year there were a total of 114 students in the Lully (VD) school district. In the Vaud cantonal school system, two years of non-obligatory pre-school are provided by the political districts. During the school year, the political district provided pre-school care for a total of 631 children of which 203 children (32.2%) received subsidized pre-school care. The canton's primary school program requires students to attend for four years. There were 60 students in the municipal primary school program. The obligatory lower secondary school program lasts for six years and there were 54 students in those schools.
, there were 33 students in Lully who came from another municipality, while 126 residents attended schools outside the municipality.
Municipalities of Switzerland
Communes , also known as municipalities, are the smallest government division in Switzerland, numbering 2,596 . While many have a population of a few hundred citizens, the largest cities such as Zürich or Geneva also have the legal status of municipalities...
in the Swiss
Switzerland
Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....
canton
Cantons of Switzerland
The 26 cantons of Switzerland are the member states of the federal state of Switzerland. Each canton was a fully sovereign state with its own borders, army and currency from the Treaty of Westphalia until the establishment of the Swiss federal state in 1848...
of Vaud
Vaud
Vaud is one of the 26 cantons of Switzerland and is located in Romandy, the French-speaking southwestern part of the country. The capital is Lausanne. The name of the Canton in Switzerland's other languages are Vaud in Italian , Waadt in German , and Vad in Romansh.-History:Along the lakes,...
, located in the district of Morges
Morges (district)
Morges District is a district in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. The seat of the district is the city of Morges.-Geography:Morges has an area, , of . Of this area, or 55.1% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 33.9% is forested...
.
Geography
Lully has an area, , of 2.1 square kilometre. Of this area, 1.33 square kilometre or 64.9% is used for agricultural purposes, while 0.26 square kilometre or 12.7% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 0.42 square kilometre or 20.5% is settled (buildings or roads) and 0.01 km² (2.5 acre) or 0.5% is unproductive land.Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 13.7% and transportation infrastructure made up 6.3%. Out of the forested land, all of the forested land area is covered with heavy forests. Of the agricultural land, 42.4% is used for growing crops and 4.4% is pastures, while 18.0% is used for orchards or vine crops.
The municipality was part of the Morges District until it was dissolved on 31 August 2006, and Lully became part of the new district of Morges.
The municipality is located westward of the Morges river. It consists of the village of Lully and the hamlet
Hamlet (place)
A hamlet is usually a rural settlement which is too small to be considered a village, though sometimes the word is used for a different sort of community. Historically, when a hamlet became large enough to justify building a church, it was then classified as a village...
of Sécheron.
Coat of arms
The blazonBlazon
In heraldry and heraldic vexillology, a blazon is a formal description of a coat of arms, flag or similar emblem, from which the reader can reconstruct the appropriate image...
of the municipal coat of arms
Coat of arms
A coat of arms is a unique heraldic design on a shield or escutcheon or on a surcoat or tabard used to cover and protect armour and to identify the wearer. Thus the term is often stated as "coat-armour", because it was anciently displayed on the front of a coat of cloth...
is Azure, a Bend Or and a Cross bottony Argent.
Demographics
Lully has a population of . , 16.4% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1999–2009 ) the population has changed at a rate of 16%. It has changed at a rate of 10.4% due to migration and at a rate of 6.1% due to births and deaths.Most of the population speaks French
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
(566 or 85.4%), with German
German language
German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....
being second most common (46 or 6.9%) and English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
being third (19 or 2.9%). There are 6 people who speak Italian
Italian language
Italian is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia...
.
Of the population in the municipality 114 or about 17.2% were born in Lully and lived there in 2000. There were 286 or 43.1% who were born in the same canton, while 121 or 18.3% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 118 or 17.8% were born outside of Switzerland.
In there were 8 live births to Swiss citizens and 2 births to non-Swiss citizens, and in same time span there was 1 death of a Swiss citizen. Ignoring immigration and emigration, the population of Swiss citizens increased by 7 while the foreign population increased by 2. There were 2 Swiss women who immigrated back to Switzerland. At the same time, there were 7 non-Swiss men and 5 non-Swiss women who immigrated from another country to Switzerland. The total Swiss population change in 2008 (from all sources, including moves across municipal borders) was an increase of 10 and the non-Swiss population increased by 16 people. This represents a population growth rate of 3.4%.
The age distribution, , in Lully is; 89 children or 11.4% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 139 teenagers or 17.8% are between 10 and 19. Of the adult population, 81 people or 10.4% of the population are between 20 and 29 years old. 101 people or 13.0% are between 30 and 39, 119 people or 15.3% are between 40 and 49, and 103 people or 13.2% are between 50 and 59. The senior population distribution is 86 people or 11.0% of the population are between 60 and 69 years old, 38 people or 4.9% are between 70 and 79, there are 16 people or 2.1% who are between 80 and 89, and there are 7 people or 0.9% who are 90 and older.
, there were 288 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 334 married individuals, 21 widows or widowers and 20 individuals who are divorced.
the average number of residents per living room was 0.56 which is about equal to the cantonal average of 0.61 per room. In this case, a room is defined as space of a housing unit of at least 4 m² (43 sq ft) as normal bedrooms, dining rooms, living rooms, kitchens and habitable cellars and attics. About 64.6% of the total households were owner occupied, or in other words did not pay rent (though they may have a mortgage
Mortgage loan
A mortgage loan is a loan secured by real property through the use of a mortgage note which evidences the existence of the loan and the encumbrance of that realty through the granting of a mortgage which secures the loan...
or a rent-to-own agreement).
, there were 236 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.7 persons per household. There were 47 households that consist of only one person and 34 households with five or more people. Out of a total of 242 households that answered this question, 19.4% were households made up of just one person. Of the rest of the households, there are 64 married couples without children, 105 married couples with children There were 15 single parents with a child or children. There were 5 households that were made up of unrelated people and 6 households that were made up of some sort of institution or another collective housing.
there were 126 single family homes (or 69.6% of the total) out of a total of 181 inhabited buildings. There were 27 multi-family buildings (14.9%), along with 22 multi-purpose buildings that were mostly used for housing (12.2%) and 6 other use buildings (commercial or industrial) that also had some housing (3.3%). Of the single family homes 15 were built before 1919, while 24 were built between 1990 and 2000. The greatest number of single family homes (36) were built between 1971 and 1980. The most multi-family homes (10) were built between 1961 and 1970 and the next most (8) were built before 1919. There were 2 multi-family houses built between 1996 and 2000.
there were 251 apartments in the municipality. The most common apartment size was 4 rooms of which there were 64. There were 8 single room apartments and 128 apartments with five or more rooms. Of these apartments, a total of 226 apartments (90.0% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 16 apartments (6.4%) were seasonally occupied and 9 apartments (3.6%) were empty. , the construction rate of new housing units was 0 new units per 1000 residents. The vacancy rate for the municipality, , was 0%.
The historical population is given in the following chart:
Politics
In the 2007 federal electionSwiss federal election, 2007
Elections to the Swiss Federal Assembly, the federal parliament of Switzerland, were held on Sunday, 21 October 2007. In a few cantons, a second round of the elections to the Council of States was held on 11 November, 18 November, and 25 November 2007...
the most popular party was the Green Party
Green Party of Switzerland
The Green Party of Switzerland is the fifth-largest party in the National Council of Switzerland, and the largest party that is not represented on the Federal Council.-History:...
which received 19.74% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SVP
Swiss People's Party
The Swiss People's Party , also known as the Democratic Union of the Centre , is a conservative political party in Switzerland. Chaired by Toni Brunner, but spearheaded by Christoph Blocher, the party is the largest party in the Federal Assembly, with 58 members of the National Council and 6 of...
(18.59%), the SP
Social Democratic Party of Switzerland
The Social Democratic Party of Switzerland is the largest centre-left political party in Switzerland....
(17.79%) and the FDP
FDP.The Liberals
FDP.The Liberals is a classical liberal political party in Switzerland. It is the joint-largest party in the Federal Council, third-largest party in the National Council, and second-largest in the Council of States....
(13.48%). In the federal election, a total of 251 votes were cast, and the voter turnout
Voter turnout
Voter turnout is the percentage of eligible voters who cast a ballot in an election . After increasing for many decades, there has been a trend of decreasing voter turnout in most established democracies since the 1960s...
was 54.0%.
Economy
, Lully had an unemployment rate of 2.6%. , there were 29 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 10 businesses involved in this sector. 6 people were employed in the secondary sector and there were 4 businesses in this sector. 60 people were employed in the tertiary sector, with 22 businesses in this sector. There were 331 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 45.3% of the workforce.the total number of full-time equivalent
Full-time equivalent
Full-time equivalent , is a unit to measure employed persons or students in a way that makes them comparable although they may work or study a different number of hours per week. FTE is often used to measure a worker's involvement in a project, or to track cost reductions in an organization...
jobs was 67. The number of jobs in the primary sector was 20, all of which were in agriculture. The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 6 of which 5 or (83.3%) were in manufacturing and 1 was in construction. The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 41. In the tertiary sector; 7 or 17.1% were in the sale or repair of motor vehicles, 1 was in the movement and storage of goods, 11 or 26.8% were technical professionals or scientists, 5 or 12.2% were in education and 14 or 34.1% were in health care.
, there were 36 workers who commuted into the municipality and 254 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 7.1 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering. Of the working population, 10.3% used public transportation to get to work, and 71.3% used a private car.
Religion
From the , 188 or 28.4% were Roman Catholic, while 288 or 43.4% belonged to the Swiss Reformed ChurchSwiss Reformed Church
The Reformed branch of Protestantism in Switzerland was started in Zürich by Huldrych Zwingli and spread within a few years to Basel , Bern , St...
. Of the rest of the population, there were 7 members of an Orthodox church
Orthodox Christianity
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(or about 1.06% of the population), there was 1 individual who belongs to the Christian Catholic Church
Christian Catholic Church of Switzerland
The Christian Catholic Church of Switzerland is the Swiss member church of the Union of Utrecht, also known as Old Catholic Church, originally founded by the jansenists, with a later influx of discontented Catholics following their disappointment with the First Vatican Council. It has 14,000...
, and there were 38 individuals (or about 5.73% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There was 1 individual who was Islam
Islam
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ic. There was 1 person who was Hindu
Hinduism
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. 113 (or about 17.04% of the population) belonged to no church, are agnostic
Agnosticism
Agnosticism is the view that the truth value of certain claims—especially claims about the existence or non-existence of any deity, but also other religious and metaphysical claims—is unknown or unknowable....
or atheist
Atheism
Atheism is, in a broad sense, the rejection of belief in the existence of deities. In a narrower sense, atheism is specifically the position that there are no deities...
, and 43 individuals (or about 6.49% of the population) did not answer the question.
Education
In Lully about 221 or (33.3%) of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education, and 159 or (24.0%) have completed additional higher education (either university or a FachhochschuleFachhochschule
A Fachhochschule or University of Applied Sciences is a German type of tertiary education institution, sometimes specialized in certain topical areas . Fachhochschulen were founded in Germany and later adopted by Austria, Liechtenstein, Switzerland and Greece...
). Of the 159 who completed tertiary schooling, 55.3% were Swiss men, 29.6% were Swiss women, 9.4% were non-Swiss men and 5.7% were non-Swiss women.
In the 2009/2010 school year there were a total of 114 students in the Lully (VD) school district. In the Vaud cantonal school system, two years of non-obligatory pre-school are provided by the political districts. During the school year, the political district provided pre-school care for a total of 631 children of which 203 children (32.2%) received subsidized pre-school care. The canton's primary school program requires students to attend for four years. There were 60 students in the municipal primary school program. The obligatory lower secondary school program lasts for six years and there were 54 students in those schools.
, there were 33 students in Lully who came from another municipality, while 126 residents attended schools outside the municipality.