Dardagny
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Dardagny is a municipality
of the Canton of Geneva
, Switzerland
.
In 1978, Dardagny received the Wakker Prize
for the development and preservation of its architectural heritage.
Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 1.2% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 3.7% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.8%. Out of the forested land, 24.5% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.4% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 32.7% is used for growing crops and 4.7% is pastures, while 24.0% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is flowing water.
It consists of the villages of Dardagny and La Plaine as well as numerous hamlets
including Essertines and Malval.
The municipality of Dardagny consists of the sub-sections or villages of La Tuilière, Roulave, Malval, Essertines, Vallon de l'Allondon, Dardagny and La Plaine.
Most of the population speaks French
(1,088 or 84.7%), with German
being second most common (52 or 4.0%) and English
being third (44 or 3.4%).
, the gender distribution of the population was 49.2% male and 50.8% female. The population was made up of 522 Swiss men (34.3% of the population) and 226 (14.9%) non-Swiss men. There were 575 Swiss women (37.8%) and 197 (13.0%) non-Swiss women. Of the population in the municipality 331 or about 25.8% were born in Dardagny and lived there in 2000. There were 352 or 27.4% who were born in the same canton, while 235 or 18.3% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 336 or 26.2% were born outside of Switzerland.
In there were 7 live births to Swiss citizens and 1 birth to non-Swiss citizens, and in same time span there were 3 deaths of Swiss citizens. Ignoring immigration and emigration, the population of Swiss citizens increased by 4 while the foreign population increased by 1. There were 4 Swiss men and 6 Swiss women who emigrated from Switzerland. At the same time, there were 3 non-Swiss men who immigrated from another country to Switzerland and 3 non-Swiss women who emigrated from Switzerland to another country. The total Swiss population remained the same in 2008 and the non-Swiss population increased by 9 people. This represents a population growth rate of 0.7%.
The age distribution of the population is children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 30.7% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 62.3% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 7%.
, there were 561 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 609 married individuals, 38 widows or widowers and 76 individuals who are divorced.
the average number of residents per living room was 0.65 which is about equal to the cantonal average of 0.64 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 28.8% 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 475 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.6 persons per household. There were 122 households that consist of only one person and 41 households with five or more people. Out of a total of 492 households that answered this question, 24.8% were households made up of just one person. Of the rest of the households, there are 104 married couples without children, 202 married couples with children There were 45 single parents with a child or children. There were 2 households that were made up of unrelated people and 17 households that were made up of some sort of institution or another collective housing.
there were 104 single family homes (or 44.6% of the total) out of a total of 233 inhabited buildings. There were 52 multi-family buildings (22.3%), along with 58 multi-purpose buildings that were mostly used for housing (24.9%) and 19 other use buildings (commercial or industrial) that also had some housing (8.2%). Of the single family homes 39 were built before 1919, while 12 were built between 1990 and 2000.
there were 513 apartments in the municipality. The most common apartment size was 3 rooms of which there were 164. There were 26 single room apartments and 140 apartments with five or more rooms. Of these apartments, a total of 462 apartments (90.1% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 44 apartments (8.6%) were seasonally occupied and 7 apartments (1.4%) were empty. , the construction rate of new housing units was 11.3 new units per 1000 residents. The vacancy rate for the municipality, , was 0%.
The historical population is given in the following chart:
and the Farm House Bellevaux are listed as Swiss heritage site of national significance
. The entire village of Dardagny and the hamlet of Malval are part of the Inventory of Swiss Heritage Sites
.
the most popular party was the SVP
which received 17.62% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the FDP
(16.58%), the Green Party
(16.47%) and the SP
(14.11%). In the federal election, a total of 343 votes were cast, and the voter turnout
was 48.9%.
In the 2009 Grand Conseil
election, there were a total of 719 registered voters of which 288 (40.1%) voted. The most popular party in the municipality for this election was the MCG with 20.0% of the ballots. In the canton-wide election they received the third highest proportion of votes. The second most popular party was the Les Radicaux
(with 19.3%), they were sixth in the canton-wide election, while the third most popular party was the Les Verts
(with 14.3%), they were second in the canton-wide election.
For the 2009 Conseil d'Etat election, there were a total of 726 registered voters of which 358 (49.3%) voted.
In 2011, all the municipalities held local elections, and in Dardagny there were 13 spots open on the municipal council. There were a total of 986 registered voters of which 484 (49.1%) voted. Out of the 484 votes, there were 5 blank votes, 5 null or unreadable votes and 212 votes with a name that was not on the list.
the total number of full-time equivalent
jobs was 541. The number of jobs in the primary sector was 73, all of which were in agriculture. The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 406 of which 399 or (98.3%) were in manufacturing and 7 (1.7%) were in construction. The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 62. In the tertiary sector; 6 or 9.7% were in the sale or repair of motor vehicles, 3 or 4.8% were in the movement and storage of goods, 19 or 30.6% were in a hotel or restaurant, 2 or 3.2% were in the information industry, 7 or 11.3% were in education and 2 or 3.2% were in health care.
, there were 435 workers who commuted into the municipality and 496 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 1.1 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering. About 20.2% of the workforce coming into Dardagny are coming from outside Switzerland, while 0.0% of the locals commute out of Switzerland for work. Of the working population, 21.3% used public transportation to get to work, and 57% used a private car.
. Of the rest of the population, there were 12 members of an Orthodox church
(or about 0.93% of the population), there was 1 individual who belongs to the Christian Catholic Church
, and there were 29 individuals (or about 2.26% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There were 2 individuals (or about 0.16% of the population) who were Jewish
, and 16 (or about 1.25% of the population) who were Islam
ic. There were 2 individuals who were Buddhist
, 1 person who was Hindu
and 1 individual who belonged to another church. 306 (or about 23.83% of the population) belonged to no church, are agnostic
or atheist
, and 80 individuals (or about 6.23% of the population) did not answer the question.
). Of the 208 who completed tertiary schooling, 35.1% were Swiss men, 34.1% were Swiss women, 17.8% were non-Swiss men and 13.0% were non-Swiss women.
During the 2009-2010 school year there were a total of 324 students in the Dardagny school system. The education system
in the Canton of Geneva allows young children to attend two years of non-obligatory Kindergarten
. During that school year, there were 22 children who were in a pre-kindergarten class. The canton's school system provides two years of non-mandatory kindergarten
and requires students to attend six years of primary school, with some of the children attending smaller, specialized classes. In Dardagny there were 53 students in kindergarten or primary school and 3 students were in the special, smaller classes. The secondary school
program consists of three lower, obligatory years of schooling, followed by three to five years of optional, advanced schools. There were 53 lower secondary students who attended school in Dardagny. There were 94 upper secondary students from the municipality along with 15 students who were in a professional, non-university track program. An additional 23 students attended a private school.
, there were 24 students in Dardagny who came from another municipality, while 141 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...
of the Canton of Geneva
Canton of Geneva
The Republic and Canton of Geneva is the French speaking westernmost canton or state of Switzerland, surrounded on almost all sides by France. As is the case in several other Swiss cantons The Republic and Canton of Geneva is the French speaking westernmost canton or state of Switzerland,...
, 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....
.
In 1978, Dardagny received the Wakker Prize
Wakker Prize
The Wakker Prize is awarded annually by the Swiss Heritage Society to a Municipality of Switzerland for the development and preservation of its architectural heritage....
for the development and preservation of its architectural heritage.
History
Dardagny is first mentioned in 1309 as Dardaniacum. The village of La Plaine is first mentioned in 1321 as Planum.Geography
Dardagny has an area, , of 8.6 square kilometres (3.3 sq mi). Of this area, 5.27 km² (2 sq mi) or 61.3% is used for agricultural purposes, while 2.23 km² (0.861007813661353 sq mi) or 25.9% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 0.81 km² (0.312742748459953 sq mi) or 9.4% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.2 km² (0.077220431718507 sq mi) or 2.3% is either rivers or lakes and 0.08 km² (19.8 acre) or 0.9% is unproductive land.Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 1.2% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 3.7% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.8%. Out of the forested land, 24.5% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.4% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 32.7% is used for growing crops and 4.7% is pastures, while 24.0% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is flowing water.
It consists of the villages of Dardagny and La Plaine as well as numerous hamlets
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...
including Essertines and Malval.
The municipality of Dardagny consists of the sub-sections or villages of La Tuilière, Roulave, Malval, Essertines, Vallon de l'Allondon, Dardagny and La Plaine.
Demographics
Dardagny has a population of . , 26.0% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1999–2009 ) the population has changed at a rate of 5.4%. It has changed at a rate of -3.9% due to migration and at a rate of 8.6% 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...
(1,088 or 84.7%), 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 (52 or 4.0%) 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 (44 or 3.4%).
, the gender distribution of the population was 49.2% male and 50.8% female. The population was made up of 522 Swiss men (34.3% of the population) and 226 (14.9%) non-Swiss men. There were 575 Swiss women (37.8%) and 197 (13.0%) non-Swiss women. Of the population in the municipality 331 or about 25.8% were born in Dardagny and lived there in 2000. There were 352 or 27.4% who were born in the same canton, while 235 or 18.3% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 336 or 26.2% were born outside of Switzerland.
In there were 7 live births to Swiss citizens and 1 birth to non-Swiss citizens, and in same time span there were 3 deaths of Swiss citizens. Ignoring immigration and emigration, the population of Swiss citizens increased by 4 while the foreign population increased by 1. There were 4 Swiss men and 6 Swiss women who emigrated from Switzerland. At the same time, there were 3 non-Swiss men who immigrated from another country to Switzerland and 3 non-Swiss women who emigrated from Switzerland to another country. The total Swiss population remained the same in 2008 and the non-Swiss population increased by 9 people. This represents a population growth rate of 0.7%.
The age distribution of the population is children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 30.7% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 62.3% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 7%.
, there were 561 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 609 married individuals, 38 widows or widowers and 76 individuals who are divorced.
the average number of residents per living room was 0.65 which is about equal to the cantonal average of 0.64 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 28.8% 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 475 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.6 persons per household. There were 122 households that consist of only one person and 41 households with five or more people. Out of a total of 492 households that answered this question, 24.8% were households made up of just one person. Of the rest of the households, there are 104 married couples without children, 202 married couples with children There were 45 single parents with a child or children. There were 2 households that were made up of unrelated people and 17 households that were made up of some sort of institution or another collective housing.
there were 104 single family homes (or 44.6% of the total) out of a total of 233 inhabited buildings. There were 52 multi-family buildings (22.3%), along with 58 multi-purpose buildings that were mostly used for housing (24.9%) and 19 other use buildings (commercial or industrial) that also had some housing (8.2%). Of the single family homes 39 were built before 1919, while 12 were built between 1990 and 2000.
there were 513 apartments in the municipality. The most common apartment size was 3 rooms of which there were 164. There were 26 single room apartments and 140 apartments with five or more rooms. Of these apartments, a total of 462 apartments (90.1% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 44 apartments (8.6%) were seasonally occupied and 7 apartments (1.4%) were empty. , the construction rate of new housing units was 11.3 new units per 1000 residents. The vacancy rate for the municipality, , was 0%.
The historical population is given in the following chart:
Heritage sites of national significance
Dardagny CastleDardagny Castle
Dardagny Castle is a castle in the municipality of Dardagny in the Canton of Geneva in Switzerland. It is a Swiss heritage site of national significance.-History:...
and the Farm House Bellevaux are listed as Swiss heritage site of national significance
Swiss Inventory of Cultural Property of National and Regional Significance
The Swiss Inventory of Cultural Property of National and Regional Significance is a register of some 8,300 items of cultural property in Switzerland...
. The entire village of Dardagny and the hamlet of Malval are part of the Inventory of Swiss Heritage Sites
Inventory of Swiss Heritage Sites
The Inventory of Swiss Heritage Sites is part of a 1981 Ordinance of the Swiss Federal Council implementing the Federal Law on the Protection of Nature and Cultural Heritage.-Sites of national importance:-Types:...
.
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 17.62% 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....
(16.58%), 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:...
(16.47%) and the SP
Social Democratic Party of Switzerland
The Social Democratic Party of Switzerland is the largest centre-left political party in Switzerland....
(14.11%). In the federal election, a total of 343 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 48.9%.
In the 2009 Grand Conseil
Grand Council of Geneva
The Grand Council of Geneva is the legislature of the canton of Geneva, in Switzerland. Geneva, styled as a 'Republic and Canton', has a unicameral legislature. The Grand Council has 100 seats, with members elected every four years...
election, there were a total of 719 registered voters of which 288 (40.1%) voted. The most popular party in the municipality for this election was the MCG with 20.0% of the ballots. In the canton-wide election they received the third highest proportion of votes. The second most popular party was the Les Radicaux
Free Democratic Party of Switzerland
The Free Democratic Party was a classical liberal political party in Switzerland. It was one of the major parties in Switzerland until its merger with the smaller classical liberal Liberal Party, to form FDP.The Liberals on 1 January 2009....
(with 19.3%), they were sixth in the canton-wide election, while the third most popular party was the Les Verts
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:...
(with 14.3%), they were second in the canton-wide election.
For the 2009 Conseil d'Etat election, there were a total of 726 registered voters of which 358 (49.3%) voted.
In 2011, all the municipalities held local elections, and in Dardagny there were 13 spots open on the municipal council. There were a total of 986 registered voters of which 484 (49.1%) voted. Out of the 484 votes, there were 5 blank votes, 5 null or unreadable votes and 212 votes with a name that was not on the list.
Economy
, Dardagny had an unemployment rate of 3.9%. , there were 95 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 26 businesses involved in this sector. 411 people were employed in the secondary sector and there were 9 businesses in this sector. 71 people were employed in the tertiary sector, with 23 businesses in this sector. There were 656 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 42.1% 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 541. The number of jobs in the primary sector was 73, all of which were in agriculture. The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 406 of which 399 or (98.3%) were in manufacturing and 7 (1.7%) were in construction. The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 62. In the tertiary sector; 6 or 9.7% were in the sale or repair of motor vehicles, 3 or 4.8% were in the movement and storage of goods, 19 or 30.6% were in a hotel or restaurant, 2 or 3.2% were in the information industry, 7 or 11.3% were in education and 2 or 3.2% were in health care.
, there were 435 workers who commuted into the municipality and 496 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 1.1 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering. About 20.2% of the workforce coming into Dardagny are coming from outside Switzerland, while 0.0% of the locals commute out of Switzerland for work. Of the working population, 21.3% used public transportation to get to work, and 57% used a private car.
Religion
From the , 475 or 37.0% were Roman Catholic, while 359 or 28.0% 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...
. Of the rest of the population, there were 12 members of an Orthodox church
Orthodox Christianity
The term Orthodox Christianity may refer to:* the Eastern Orthodox Church and its various geographical subdivisions...
(or about 0.93% 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 29 individuals (or about 2.26% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There were 2 individuals (or about 0.16% of the population) who were Jewish
Judaism
Judaism ) is the "religion, philosophy, and way of life" of the Jewish people...
, and 16 (or about 1.25% 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. There were 2 individuals who were Buddhist
Buddhism
Buddhism is a religion and philosophy encompassing a variety of traditions, beliefs and practices, largely based on teachings attributed to Siddhartha Gautama, commonly known as the Buddha . The Buddha lived and taught in the northeastern Indian subcontinent some time between the 6th and 4th...
, 1 person who was Hindu
Hinduism
Hinduism is the predominant and indigenous religious tradition of the Indian Subcontinent. Hinduism is known to its followers as , amongst many other expressions...
and 1 individual who belonged to another church. 306 (or about 23.83% 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 80 individuals (or about 6.23% of the population) did not answer the question.
Education
In Dardagny about 421 or (32.8%) of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education, and 208 or (16.2%) 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 208 who completed tertiary schooling, 35.1% were Swiss men, 34.1% were Swiss women, 17.8% were non-Swiss men and 13.0% were non-Swiss women.
During the 2009-2010 school year there were a total of 324 students in the Dardagny school system. The education system
Education in Switzerland
The education system in Switzerland is very diverse, because the constitution of Switzerland delegates the authority for the school system mainly to the cantons...
in the Canton of Geneva allows young children to attend two years of non-obligatory Kindergarten
Kindergarten
A kindergarten is a preschool educational institution for children. The term was created by Friedrich Fröbel for the play and activity institute that he created in 1837 in Bad Blankenburg as a social experience for children for their transition from home to school...
. During that school year, there were 22 children who were in a pre-kindergarten class. The canton's school system provides two years of non-mandatory kindergarten
Kindergarten
A kindergarten is a preschool educational institution for children. The term was created by Friedrich Fröbel for the play and activity institute that he created in 1837 in Bad Blankenburg as a social experience for children for their transition from home to school...
and requires students to attend six years of primary school, with some of the children attending smaller, specialized classes. In Dardagny there were 53 students in kindergarten or primary school and 3 students were in the special, smaller classes. The secondary school
Secondary school
Secondary school is a term used to describe an educational institution where the final stage of schooling, known as secondary education and usually compulsory up to a specified age, takes place...
program consists of three lower, obligatory years of schooling, followed by three to five years of optional, advanced schools. There were 53 lower secondary students who attended school in Dardagny. There were 94 upper secondary students from the municipality along with 15 students who were in a professional, non-university track program. An additional 23 students attended a private school.
, there were 24 students in Dardagny who came from another municipality, while 141 residents attended schools outside the municipality.