Vérossaz
Encyclopedia
Vérossaz is a municipality
in the district of Saint-Maurice, in the canton of Valais, Switzerland
.
Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 1.8% and transportation infrastructure made up 0.8%. Out of the forested land, 35.6% of the total land area is heavily forested and 3.0% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 0.1% is used for growing crops and 11.6% is pastures and 13.2% is used for alpine pastures. All the water in the municipality is flowing water. Of the unproductive areas, 7.3% is unproductive vegetation and 16.7% is too rocky for vegetation.
of the municipal coat of arms
is Quartered Gules a Cross bottony Argent and Sable a Crown Or.
Most of the population speaks French
(430 or 97.9%) as their first language, German
is the second most common (3 or 0.7%) and English
is the third (2 or 0.5%). and 1 person who speaks Romansh.
, the population was 49.5% male and 50.5% female. The population was made up of 261 Swiss men (45.3% of the population) and 24 (4.2%) non-Swiss men. There were 276 Swiss women (47.9%) and 15 (2.6%) non-Swiss women. Of the population in the municipality, 231 or about 52.6% were born in Vérossaz and lived there in 2000. There were 110 or 25.1% who were born in the same canton, while 62 or 14.1% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 32 or 7.3% were born outside of Switzerland.
, children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 25.3% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 58.3% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 16.4%.
, there were 178 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 218 married individuals, 18 widows or widowers and 25 individuals who are divorced.
, there were 174 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.4 persons per household. There were 52 households that consist of only one person and 13 households with five or more people. , a total of 172 apartments (60.1% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 85 apartments (29.7%) were seasonally occupied and 29 apartments (10.1%) were empty. , the construction rate of new housing units was 3.5 new units per 1000 residents. The vacancy rate for the municipality, , was 0.33%.
The historical population is given in the following chart:
the most popular party was the CVP
which received 51.16% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SP
(15.63%), the FDP
(14.63%) and the SVP
(11.53%). In the federal election, a total of 273 votes were cast, and the voter turnout
was 65.3%.
In the 2009 Conseil d'Etat/Staatsrat
election a total of 281 votes were cast, of which 8 or about 2.8% were invalid. The voter participation was 69.0%, which is much more than the cantonal average of 54.67%. In the 2007 Swiss Council of States election
election a total of 267 votes were cast, of which 20 or about 7.5% were invalid. The voter participation was 66.4%, which is much more than the cantonal average of 59.88%.
the total number of full-time equivalent
jobs was 52. The number of jobs in the primary sector was 15, all of which were in agriculture. The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 16 of which 1 was in manufacturing and 15 (93.8%) were in construction. The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 21. In the tertiary sector; 4 or 19.0% were in the sale or repair of motor vehicles, 6 or 28.6% were in the movement and storage of goods, 2 or 9.5% were in a hotel or restaurant, 2 or 9.5% were technical professionals or scientists, 5 or 23.8% were in education.
, there were 26 workers who commuted into the municipality and 138 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 5.3 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering. Of the working population, 4.8% used public transportation to get to work, and 81.2% used a private car.
. Of the rest of the population, there was 1 individual who belongs to the Christian Catholic Church
, and there were 5 individuals (or about 1.14% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There was 1 individual who was Islam
ic. There were 1 individual who belonged to another church. 18 (or about 4.10% of the population) belonged to no church, are agnostic
or atheist
, and 8 individuals (or about 1.82% of the population) did not answer the question.
). Of the 38 who completed tertiary schooling, 52.6% were Swiss men, 36.8% were Swiss women.
, there was one student in Vérossaz who came from another municipality, while 30 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 district of Saint-Maurice, in the canton of Valais, 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....
.
Geography
Vérossaz has an area, , of 14.3 square kilometre. Of this area, 3.57 square kilometre or 25.0% is used for agricultural purposes, while 6.79 square kilometre or 47.5% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 0.39 square kilometre or 2.7% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.07 km² (17.3 acre) or 0.5% is either rivers or lakes and 3.5 square kilometre or 24.5% is unproductive land.Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 1.8% and transportation infrastructure made up 0.8%. Out of the forested land, 35.6% of the total land area is heavily forested and 3.0% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 0.1% is used for growing crops and 11.6% is pastures and 13.2% is used for alpine pastures. All the water in the municipality is flowing water. Of the unproductive areas, 7.3% is unproductive vegetation and 16.7% is too rocky for vegetation.
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 Quartered Gules a Cross bottony Argent and Sable a Crown Or.
Demographics
Vérossaz has a population of . , 6.4% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (2000–2010 ) the population has changed at a rate of 18.8%. It has changed at a rate of 19.8% due to migration and at a rate of 7% 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...
(430 or 97.9%) as their first language, 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....
is the second most common (3 or 0.7%) 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...
is the third (2 or 0.5%). and 1 person who speaks Romansh.
, the population was 49.5% male and 50.5% female. The population was made up of 261 Swiss men (45.3% of the population) and 24 (4.2%) non-Swiss men. There were 276 Swiss women (47.9%) and 15 (2.6%) non-Swiss women. Of the population in the municipality, 231 or about 52.6% were born in Vérossaz and lived there in 2000. There were 110 or 25.1% who were born in the same canton, while 62 or 14.1% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 32 or 7.3% were born outside of Switzerland.
, children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 25.3% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 58.3% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 16.4%.
, there were 178 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 218 married individuals, 18 widows or widowers and 25 individuals who are divorced.
, there were 174 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.4 persons per household. There were 52 households that consist of only one person and 13 households with five or more people. , a total of 172 apartments (60.1% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 85 apartments (29.7%) were seasonally occupied and 29 apartments (10.1%) were empty. , the construction rate of new housing units was 3.5 new units per 1000 residents. The vacancy rate for the municipality, , was 0.33%.
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 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...
which received 51.16% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SP
Social Democratic Party of Switzerland
The Social Democratic Party of Switzerland is the largest centre-left political party in Switzerland....
(15.63%), 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....
(14.63%) and 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...
(11.53%). In the federal election, a total of 273 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 65.3%.
In the 2009 Conseil d'Etat/Staatsrat
Conseil d'Etat (Switzerland)
In Switzerland, Conseil d'Etat is the name of the council constituting the cantonal government of French-speaking cantons. It is not to be confused with the Conseil des États which is a chamber of the Swiss parliament....
election a total of 281 votes were cast, of which 8 or about 2.8% were invalid. The voter participation was 69.0%, which is much more than the cantonal average of 54.67%. In the 2007 Swiss Council of States election
Swiss Council of States election, 2007
Elections were held to the Council of States of Switzerland in October and November 2007 as part of the 2007 federal election. All 46 members of the Council of States were elected from all cantons of Switzerland. The first round was held on 21 October...
election a total of 267 votes were cast, of which 20 or about 7.5% were invalid. The voter participation was 66.4%, which is much more than the cantonal average of 59.88%.
Economy
, Vérossaz had an unemployment rate of 3%. , there were 26 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 14 businesses involved in this sector. 16 people were employed in the secondary sector and there were 3 businesses in this sector. 25 people were employed in the tertiary sector, with 10 businesses in this sector. There were 186 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 38.7% 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 52. The number of jobs in the primary sector was 15, all of which were in agriculture. The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 16 of which 1 was in manufacturing and 15 (93.8%) were in construction. The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 21. In the tertiary sector; 4 or 19.0% were in the sale or repair of motor vehicles, 6 or 28.6% were in the movement and storage of goods, 2 or 9.5% were in a hotel or restaurant, 2 or 9.5% were technical professionals or scientists, 5 or 23.8% were in education.
, there were 26 workers who commuted into the municipality and 138 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 5.3 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering. Of the working population, 4.8% used public transportation to get to work, and 81.2% used a private car.
Religion
From the , 378 or 86.1% were Roman Catholic, while 29 or 6.6% 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 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 5 individuals (or about 1.14% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There was 1 individual who was Islam
Islam
Islam . The most common are and . : Arabic pronunciation varies regionally. The first vowel ranges from ~~. The second vowel ranges from ~~~...
ic. There were 1 individual who belonged to another church. 18 (or about 4.10% 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 8 individuals (or about 1.82% of the population) did not answer the question.
Education
In Vérossaz about 160 or (36.4%) of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education, and 38 or (8.7%) 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 38 who completed tertiary schooling, 52.6% were Swiss men, 36.8% were Swiss women.
, there was one student in Vérossaz who came from another municipality, while 30 residents attended schools outside the municipality.