Villars-le-Grand
Encyclopedia
Villars-le-Grand is a former municipality
in the district of Broye-Vully in the canton
of Vaud
in Switzerland
.
The municipalities of Bellerive
, Chabrey
, Constantine
, Montmagny
, Mur
, Vallamand
and Villars-le-Grand merged on 1 July 2011 into the new municipality of Vully-les-Lacs
.
Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 2.9% and transportation infrastructure made up 5.2%. Out of the forested land, 1.7% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.4% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 77.4% is used for growing crops and 7.9% is pastures, while 2.4% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is flowing water.
The municipality was part of the Avenches District until it was dissolved on 31 August 2006, and Villars-le-Grand became part of the new district of Broye-Vully.
Most of the population speaks French
(262 or 90.3%), with German
being second most common (24 or 8.3%) and Portuguese
being third (2 or 0.7%). There is 1 person who speaks Italian
.
Of the population in the municipality 134 or about 46.2% were born in Villars-le-Grand and lived there in 2000. There were 55 or 19.0% who were born in the same canton, while 72 or 24.8% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 16 or 5.5% were born outside of Switzerland.
In there were 2 live births to Swiss citizens and 2 births to non-Swiss citizens. Ignoring immigration and emigration, the population of Swiss citizens increased by 2 while the foreign population increased by 2. The total Swiss population change in 2008 (from all sources, including moves across municipal borders) was a decrease of 10 and the non-Swiss population increased by 2 people. This represents a population growth rate of -2.8%.
The age distribution, , in Villars-le-Grand is; 24 children or 8.7% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 32 teenagers or 11.6% are between 10 and 19. Of the adult population, 23 people or 8.4% of the population are between 20 and 29 years old. 24 people or 8.7% are between 30 and 39, 44 people or 16.0% are between 40 and 49, and 38 people or 13.8% are between 50 and 59. The senior population distribution is 49 people or 17.8% of the population are between 60 and 69 years old, 23 people or 8.4% are between 70 and 79, there are 14 people or 5.1% who are between 80 and 89, and there are 4 people or 1.5% who are 90 and older.
, there were 115 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 154 married individuals, 12 widows or widowers and 9 individuals who are divorced.
the average number of residents per living room was 0.61 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 (43.1 sq ft) as normal bedrooms, dining rooms, living rooms, kitchens and habitable cellars and attics. About 66.7% 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 107 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.7 persons per household. There were 19 households that consist of only one person and 9 households with five or more people. Out of a total of 109 households that answered this question, 17.4% were households made up of just one person and there were 2 adults who lived with their parents. Of the rest of the households, there are 39 married couples without children, 41 married couples with children There were 6 single parents with a child or children.
there were 47 single family homes (or 52.2% of the total) out of a total of 90 inhabited buildings. There were 10 multi-family buildings (11.1%), along with 30 multi-purpose buildings that were mostly used for housing (33.3%) and 3 other use buildings (commercial or industrial) that also had some housing (3.3%). Of the single family homes 17 were built before 1919, while 6 were built between 1990 and 2000. The most multi-family homes (4) were built before 1919 and the next most (1) were built between 1919 and 1945. There was 1 multi-family house built between 1996 and 2000.
there were 115 apartments in the municipality. The most common apartment size was 4 rooms of which there were 39. There were single room apartments and 43 apartments with five or more rooms. Of these apartments, a total of 102 apartments (88.7% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 6 apartments (5.2%) were seasonally occupied and 7 apartments (6.1%) were empty. , the construction rate of new housing units was 3.6 new units per 1000 residents. The vacancy rate for the municipality, , was 0.79%.
The historical population is given in the following chart:
the most popular party was the SVP
which received 39.93% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the FDP
(24.39%), the SP
(15.18%) and the CVP
(5.26%). In the federal election, a total of 96 votes were cast, and the voter turnout
was 43.4%.
the total number of full-time equivalent
jobs was 42. The number of jobs in the primary sector was 38, all of which were in agriculture. The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 1, in manufacturing. The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 3, all in education.
, there were 9 workers who commuted into the municipality and 100 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 11.1 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering. Of the working population, 5.3% used public transportation to get to work, and 60% used a private car.
. There were 3 (or about 1.03% of the population) who were Islam
ic. 23 (or about 7.93% of the population) belonged to no church, are agnostic
or atheist
, and 12 individuals (or about 4.14% of the population) did not answer the question.
). Of the 23 who completed tertiary schooling, 69.6% were Swiss men, 21.7% were Swiss women.
In the 2009/2010 school year there were a total of 36 students in the Villars-le-Grand 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 155 children of which 83 children (53.5%) received subsidized pre-school care. The canton's primary school program requires students to attend for four years. There were 17 students in the municipal primary school program. The obligatory lower secondary school program lasts for six years and there were 18 students in those schools. There were also 1 students who were home schooled or attended another non-traditional school.
, there were 18 students in Villars-le-Grand who came from another municipality, while 29 residents attended schools outside the municipality.
Municipalities of Switzerland
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in the district of Broye-Vully in the 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,...
in Switzerland
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....
.
The municipalities of Bellerive
Bellerive, Switzerland
Bellerive is a former municipality in the district of Broye-Vully in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.The municipalities of Bellerive, Chabrey, Constantine, Montmagny, Mur , Vallamand and Villars-le-Grand merged on 1 July 2011 into the new municipality of Vully-les-Lacs.-Geography:Bellerive has an...
, Chabrey
Chabrey
Chabrey is a former municipality in the district of Broye-Vully in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.The municipalities of Bellerive, Chabrey, Constantine, Montmagny, Mur, Vallamand and Villars-le-Grand merged on 1 July 2011 into the new municipality of Vully-les-Lacs.-Geography:Chabrey has an...
, Constantine
Constantine, Switzerland
Constantine is a former municipality in the district of Broye-Vully in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.The municipalities of Bellerive, Chabrey, Constantine, Montmagny, Mur, Vallamand and Villars-le-Grand merged on 1 July 2011 into the new municipality of Vully-les-Lacs.-Geography:Constantine has...
, Montmagny
Montmagny, Switzerland
Montmagny is a former municipality in the district of Broye-Vully in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.The municipalities of Bellerive, Chabrey, Constantine, Montmagny, Mur, Vallamand and Villars-le-Grand merged on 1 July 2011 into the new municipality of Vully-les-Lacs.-History:Montmagny is first...
, Mur
Mur, Switzerland
Mur is a former municipality in the district of Broye-Vully in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.The municipalities of Bellerive, Chabrey, Constantine, Montmagny, Mur, Vallamand and Villars-le-Grand merged on 1 July 2011 into the new municipality of Vully-les-Lacs.-Geography:Mur has an area, , of...
, Vallamand
Vallamand
Vallamand is a municipality in the Swiss the canton of Vaud in the district of Broye-Vully.The municipalities of Bellerive, Chabrey, Constantine, Montmagny, Mur, Vallamand and Villars-le-Grand merged on 1 July 2011 into the new municipality of Vully-les-Lacs.-Geography:Vallamand has an area, , of...
and Villars-le-Grand merged on 1 July 2011 into the new municipality of Vully-les-Lacs
Vully-les-Lacs
Vully-les-Lacs is a municipality in the district of Broye-Vully in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.The municipalities of Bellerive, Chabrey, Constantine, Montmagny, Mur , Vallamand and Villars-le-Grand merged on 1 July 2011 into the new municipality of Vully-les-Lacs.-History:Bellerive is first...
.
Geography
Villars-le-Grand has an area, , of 4.2 square kilometres (1.6 sq mi). Of this area, 3.68 km² (1.4 sq mi) or 87.6% is used for agricultural purposes, while 0.13 km² (0.0501932806170296 sq mi) or 3.1% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 0.35 km² (0.135135755507387 sq mi) or 8.3% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.08 km² (19.8 acre) or 1.9% is either rivers or lakes.Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 2.9% and transportation infrastructure made up 5.2%. Out of the forested land, 1.7% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.4% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 77.4% is used for growing crops and 7.9% is pastures, while 2.4% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is flowing water.
The municipality was part of the Avenches District until it was dissolved on 31 August 2006, and Villars-le-Grand became part of the new district of Broye-Vully.
Demographics
Villars-le-Grand has a population of 275. , 5.4% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1999–2009 ) the population has changed at a rate of -3.5%. It has changed at a rate of -1.8% due to migration and at a rate of -1.1% 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...
(262 or 90.3%), 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 (24 or 8.3%) and Portuguese
Portuguese language
Portuguese is a Romance language that arose in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia, nowadays Galicia and Northern Portugal. The southern part of the Kingdom of Galicia became independent as the County of Portugal in 1095...
being third (2 or 0.7%). There is 1 person who speaks 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 134 or about 46.2% were born in Villars-le-Grand and lived there in 2000. There were 55 or 19.0% who were born in the same canton, while 72 or 24.8% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 16 or 5.5% were born outside of Switzerland.
In there were 2 live births to Swiss citizens and 2 births to non-Swiss citizens. Ignoring immigration and emigration, the population of Swiss citizens increased by 2 while the foreign population increased by 2. The total Swiss population change in 2008 (from all sources, including moves across municipal borders) was a decrease of 10 and the non-Swiss population increased by 2 people. This represents a population growth rate of -2.8%.
The age distribution, , in Villars-le-Grand is; 24 children or 8.7% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 32 teenagers or 11.6% are between 10 and 19. Of the adult population, 23 people or 8.4% of the population are between 20 and 29 years old. 24 people or 8.7% are between 30 and 39, 44 people or 16.0% are between 40 and 49, and 38 people or 13.8% are between 50 and 59. The senior population distribution is 49 people or 17.8% of the population are between 60 and 69 years old, 23 people or 8.4% are between 70 and 79, there are 14 people or 5.1% who are between 80 and 89, and there are 4 people or 1.5% who are 90 and older.
, there were 115 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 154 married individuals, 12 widows or widowers and 9 individuals who are divorced.
the average number of residents per living room was 0.61 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 (43.1 sq ft) as normal bedrooms, dining rooms, living rooms, kitchens and habitable cellars and attics. About 66.7% 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 107 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.7 persons per household. There were 19 households that consist of only one person and 9 households with five or more people. Out of a total of 109 households that answered this question, 17.4% were households made up of just one person and there were 2 adults who lived with their parents. Of the rest of the households, there are 39 married couples without children, 41 married couples with children There were 6 single parents with a child or children.
there were 47 single family homes (or 52.2% of the total) out of a total of 90 inhabited buildings. There were 10 multi-family buildings (11.1%), along with 30 multi-purpose buildings that were mostly used for housing (33.3%) and 3 other use buildings (commercial or industrial) that also had some housing (3.3%). Of the single family homes 17 were built before 1919, while 6 were built between 1990 and 2000. The most multi-family homes (4) were built before 1919 and the next most (1) were built between 1919 and 1945. There was 1 multi-family house built between 1996 and 2000.
there were 115 apartments in the municipality. The most common apartment size was 4 rooms of which there were 39. There were single room apartments and 43 apartments with five or more rooms. Of these apartments, a total of 102 apartments (88.7% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 6 apartments (5.2%) were seasonally occupied and 7 apartments (6.1%) were empty. , the construction rate of new housing units was 3.6 new units per 1000 residents. The vacancy rate for the municipality, , was 0.79%.
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 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...
which received 39.93% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were 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....
(24.39%), the SP
Social Democratic Party of Switzerland
The Social Democratic Party of Switzerland is the largest centre-left political party in Switzerland....
(15.18%) and the CVP
Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland
The Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland is a Christian democratic political party in Switzerland. It is the fourth-largest party in the National Council, with 31 seats, and the largest in the Council of States, with 15 seats. It has one seat, that of Doris Leuthard, on the Swiss...
(5.26%). In the federal election, a total of 96 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 43.4%.
Economy
, Villars-le-Grand had an unemployment rate of 2.1%. , there were 67 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 16 businesses involved in this sector. 1 person was employed in the secondary sector and there was 1 business in this sector. 5 people were employed in the tertiary sector, with 1 business in this sector. There were 150 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 44.7% 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 42. The number of jobs in the primary sector was 38, all of which were in agriculture. The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 1, in manufacturing. The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 3, all in education.
, there were 9 workers who commuted into the municipality and 100 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 11.1 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering. Of the working population, 5.3% used public transportation to get to work, and 60% used a private car.
Religion
From the , 78 or 26.9% were Roman Catholic, while 174 or 60.0% 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...
. There were 3 (or about 1.03% of the population) who were Islam
Islam
Islam . The most common are and . : Arabic pronunciation varies regionally. The first vowel ranges from ~~. The second vowel ranges from ~~~...
ic. 23 (or about 7.93% 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 12 individuals (or about 4.14% of the population) did not answer the question.
Education
In Villars-le-Grand about 98 or (33.8%) of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education, and 23 or (7.9%) 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 23 who completed tertiary schooling, 69.6% were Swiss men, 21.7% were Swiss women.
In the 2009/2010 school year there were a total of 36 students in the Villars-le-Grand 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 155 children of which 83 children (53.5%) received subsidized pre-school care. The canton's primary school program requires students to attend for four years. There were 17 students in the municipal primary school program. The obligatory lower secondary school program lasts for six years and there were 18 students in those schools. There were also 1 students who were home schooled or attended another non-traditional school.
, there were 18 students in Villars-le-Grand who came from another municipality, while 29 residents attended schools outside the municipality.