Vandœuvres
Encyclopedia
Vandœuvres is a municipality
of the Canton of Geneva
, Switzerland
.
Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 37.9% and transportation infrastructure made up 3.9%. Power and water infrastructure as well as other special developed areas made up 1.1% of the area while parks, green belts and sports fields made up 11.8%. Out of the forested land, 2.3% of the total land area is heavily forested and 3.6% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 28.6% is used for growing crops and 7.9% is pastures, while 2.5% is used for orchards or vine crops.
The municipality of Vandoeuvres consists of the sub-sections or villages of Bessinge - La Rippaz, Vandoeuvres - village, Crête, Seymaz and Chougny.
Most of the population speaks French
(1,876 or 80.4%), with English
being second most common (134 or 5.7%) and German
being third (131 or 5.6%). There are 42 people who speak Italian
and 1 person who speaks Romansh.
, the gender distribution of the population was 49.5% male and 50.5% female. The population was made up of 904 Swiss men (33.6% of the population) and 428 (15.9%) non-Swiss men. There were 950 Swiss women (35.3%) and 409 (15.2%) non-Swiss women. Of the population in the municipality 340 or about 14.6% were born in Vandoeuvres and lived there in 2000. There were 741 or 31.8% who were born in the same canton, while 332 or 14.2% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 856 or 36.7% were born outside of Switzerland.
In there were 17 live births to Swiss citizens and 9 births to non-Swiss citizens, and in same time span there were 14 deaths of Swiss citizens and 4 non-Swiss citizen deaths. Ignoring immigration and emigration, the population of Swiss citizens increased by 3 while the foreign population increased by 5. There were 11 Swiss men and 7 Swiss women who emigrated from Switzerland. At the same time, there were 15 non-Swiss men and 10 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 a decrease of 16 and the non-Swiss population increased by 22 people. This represents a population growth rate of 0.2%.
The age distribution of the population is children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 28.7% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 56.1% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 15.2%.
, there were 971 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 1,123 married individuals, 112 widows or widowers and 127 individuals who are divorced.
the average number of residents per living room was 0.49 which is less people per room than 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 66.4% 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 810 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.7 persons per household. There were 187 households that consist of only one person and 87 households with five or more people. Out of a total of 830 households that answered this question, 22.5% were households made up of just one person and there were 3 adults who lived with their parents. Of the rest of the households, there are 198 married couples without children, 355 married couples with children There were 55 single parents with a child or children. There were 12 households that were made up of unrelated people and 20 households that were made up of some sort of institution or another collective housing.
there were 540 single family homes (or 82.3% of the total) out of a total of 656 inhabited buildings. There were 59 multi-family buildings (9.0%), along with 39 multi-purpose buildings that were mostly used for housing (5.9%) and 18 other use buildings (commercial or industrial) that also had some housing (2.7%). Of the single family homes 84 were built before 1919, while 105 were built between 1990 and 2000. The most multi-family homes (16) were built before 1919 and the next most (14) were built between 1996 and 2000.
there were 840 apartments in the municipality. The most common apartment size was 5 rooms of which there were 163. There were 26 single room apartments and 505 apartments with five or more rooms. Of these apartments, a total of 760 apartments (90.5% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 61 apartments (7.3%) were seasonally occupied and 19 apartments (2.3%) were empty. , the construction rate of new housing units was 0.8 new units per 1000 residents. The vacancy rate for the municipality, , was 0.32%.
The historical population is given in the following chart:
the most popular party was the LPS Party
which received 33.97% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SVP
(23.31%), the Green Party
(12.54%) and the SP
(8.9%). In the federal election, a total of 834 votes were cast, and the voter turnout
was 58.8%.
In the 2009 Grand Conseil
election, there were a total of 1,412 registered voters of which 712 (50.4%) voted. The most popular party in the municipality for this election was the Libéral
with 39.2% of the ballots. In the canton-wide election they received the highest proportion of votes. The second most popular party was the UDC
(with 11.6%), they were seventh in the canton-wide election, while the third most popular party was the Les Verts
(with 11.4%), they were second in the canton-wide election.
For the 2009 Conseil d'Etat election, there were a total of 1,412 registered voters of which 768 (54.4%) voted.
In 2011, all the municipalities held local elections, and in Vandoeuvres there were 17 spots open on the municipal council. There were a total of 1,722 registered voters of which 928 (53.9%) voted. Out of the 928 votes, there were 1 blank votes, 1 null or unreadable votes and 76 votes with a name that was not on the list.
the total number of full-time equivalent
jobs was 385. The number of jobs in the primary sector was 13, all of which were in agriculture. The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 54 of which 22 or (40.7%) were in manufacturing and 23 (42.6%) were in construction. The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 318. In the tertiary sector; 13 or 4.1% were in the sale or repair of motor vehicles, 17 or 5.3% were in a hotel or restaurant, 3 or 0.9% were the insurance or financial industry, 58 or 18.2% were technical professionals or scientists, 44 or 13.8% were in education and 60 or 18.9% were in health care.
, there were 328 workers who commuted into the municipality and 802 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 2.4 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering. About 24.7% of the workforce coming into Vandoeuvres are coming from outside Switzerland, while 0.2% of the locals commute out of Switzerland for work. Of the working population, 13.3% used public transportation to get to work, and 62% used a private car.
. Of the rest of the population, there were 33 members of an Orthodox church
(or about 1.41% of the population), there were 2 individuals (or about 0.09% of the population) who belonged to the Christian Catholic Church
, and there were 60 individuals (or about 2.57% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There were 92 individuals (or about 3.94% of the population) who were Jewish
, and 47 (or about 2.01% of the population) who were Islam
ic. There were 5 individuals who were Buddhist
, 4 individuals who were Hindu
and 3 individuals who belonged to another church. 395 (or about 16.93% of the population) belonged to no church, are agnostic
or atheist
, and 131 individuals (or about 5.62% of the population) did not answer the question.
). Of the 761 who completed tertiary schooling, 40.7% were Swiss men, 30.4% were Swiss women, 17.1% were non-Swiss men and 11.8% were non-Swiss women.
During the 2009-2010 school year there were a total of 627 students in the Vandoeuvres 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 35 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 Vandoeuvres there were 61 students in kindergarten or primary school and 6 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 61 lower secondary students who attended school in Vandoeuvres. There were 103 upper secondary students from the municipality along with 11 students who were in a professional, non-university track program. An additional 229 students attended a private school.
, there were 33 students in Vandoeuvres who came from another municipality, while 377 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....
.
Geography
Vandoeuvres has an area, , of 4.41 square kilometres (1.7 sq mi). Of this area, 1.72 km² (0.66409571277916 sq mi) or 39.0% is used for agricultural purposes, while 0.26 km² (0.100386561234059 sq mi) or 5.9% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 2.43 km² (0.93822824537986 sq mi) or 55.1% is settled (buildings or roads).Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 37.9% and transportation infrastructure made up 3.9%. Power and water infrastructure as well as other special developed areas made up 1.1% of the area while parks, green belts and sports fields made up 11.8%. Out of the forested land, 2.3% of the total land area is heavily forested and 3.6% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 28.6% is used for growing crops and 7.9% is pastures, while 2.5% is used for orchards or vine crops.
The municipality of Vandoeuvres consists of the sub-sections or villages of Bessinge - La Rippaz, Vandoeuvres - village, Crête, Seymaz and Chougny.
Demographics
Vandoeuvres has a population of . , 26.8% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1999–2009 ) the population has changed at a rate of 18%. It has changed at a rate of 15% due to migration and at a rate of 2% 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...
(1,876 or 80.4%), with 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 second most common (134 or 5.7%) and 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 third (131 or 5.6%). There are 42 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...
and 1 person who speaks Romansh.
, the gender distribution of the population was 49.5% male and 50.5% female. The population was made up of 904 Swiss men (33.6% of the population) and 428 (15.9%) non-Swiss men. There were 950 Swiss women (35.3%) and 409 (15.2%) non-Swiss women. Of the population in the municipality 340 or about 14.6% were born in Vandoeuvres and lived there in 2000. There were 741 or 31.8% who were born in the same canton, while 332 or 14.2% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 856 or 36.7% were born outside of Switzerland.
In there were 17 live births to Swiss citizens and 9 births to non-Swiss citizens, and in same time span there were 14 deaths of Swiss citizens and 4 non-Swiss citizen deaths. Ignoring immigration and emigration, the population of Swiss citizens increased by 3 while the foreign population increased by 5. There were 11 Swiss men and 7 Swiss women who emigrated from Switzerland. At the same time, there were 15 non-Swiss men and 10 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 a decrease of 16 and the non-Swiss population increased by 22 people. This represents a population growth rate of 0.2%.
The age distribution of the population is children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 28.7% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 56.1% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 15.2%.
, there were 971 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 1,123 married individuals, 112 widows or widowers and 127 individuals who are divorced.
the average number of residents per living room was 0.49 which is less people per room than 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 66.4% 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 810 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.7 persons per household. There were 187 households that consist of only one person and 87 households with five or more people. Out of a total of 830 households that answered this question, 22.5% were households made up of just one person and there were 3 adults who lived with their parents. Of the rest of the households, there are 198 married couples without children, 355 married couples with children There were 55 single parents with a child or children. There were 12 households that were made up of unrelated people and 20 households that were made up of some sort of institution or another collective housing.
there were 540 single family homes (or 82.3% of the total) out of a total of 656 inhabited buildings. There were 59 multi-family buildings (9.0%), along with 39 multi-purpose buildings that were mostly used for housing (5.9%) and 18 other use buildings (commercial or industrial) that also had some housing (2.7%). Of the single family homes 84 were built before 1919, while 105 were built between 1990 and 2000. The most multi-family homes (16) were built before 1919 and the next most (14) were built between 1996 and 2000.
there were 840 apartments in the municipality. The most common apartment size was 5 rooms of which there were 163. There were 26 single room apartments and 505 apartments with five or more rooms. Of these apartments, a total of 760 apartments (90.5% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 61 apartments (7.3%) were seasonally occupied and 19 apartments (2.3%) were empty. , the construction rate of new housing units was 0.8 new units per 1000 residents. The vacancy rate for the municipality, , was 0.32%.
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 LPS Party
Liberal Party of Switzerland
The Liberal Party of Switzerland was a party with economically liberal policies. It was known as a party of the upper class. On 1 January 2009 it merged with the larger Free Democratic Party to establish FDP.The Liberals....
which received 33.97% 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...
(23.31%), 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:...
(12.54%) and the SP
Social Democratic Party of Switzerland
The Social Democratic Party of Switzerland is the largest centre-left political party in Switzerland....
(8.9%). In the federal election, a total of 834 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 58.8%.
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 1,412 registered voters of which 712 (50.4%) voted. The most popular party in the municipality for this election was the Libéral
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....
with 39.2% of the ballots. In the canton-wide election they received the highest proportion of votes. The second most popular party was the UDC
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...
(with 11.6%), they were seventh 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 11.4%), they were second in the canton-wide election.
For the 2009 Conseil d'Etat election, there were a total of 1,412 registered voters of which 768 (54.4%) voted.
In 2011, all the municipalities held local elections, and in Vandoeuvres there were 17 spots open on the municipal council. There were a total of 1,722 registered voters of which 928 (53.9%) voted. Out of the 928 votes, there were 1 blank votes, 1 null or unreadable votes and 76 votes with a name that was not on the list.
Economy
, Vandoeuvres had an unemployment rate of 2.1%. , there were 17 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 7 businesses involved in this sector. 56 people were employed in the secondary sector and there were 10 businesses in this sector. 408 people were employed in the tertiary sector, with 64 businesses in this sector. There were 986 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 40.1% 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 385. The number of jobs in the primary sector was 13, all of which were in agriculture. The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 54 of which 22 or (40.7%) were in manufacturing and 23 (42.6%) were in construction. The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 318. In the tertiary sector; 13 or 4.1% were in the sale or repair of motor vehicles, 17 or 5.3% were in a hotel or restaurant, 3 or 0.9% were the insurance or financial industry, 58 or 18.2% were technical professionals or scientists, 44 or 13.8% were in education and 60 or 18.9% were in health care.
, there were 328 workers who commuted into the municipality and 802 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 2.4 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering. About 24.7% of the workforce coming into Vandoeuvres are coming from outside Switzerland, while 0.2% of the locals commute out of Switzerland for work. Of the working population, 13.3% used public transportation to get to work, and 62% used a private car.
Religion
From the , 879 or 37.7% were Roman Catholic, while 682 or 29.2% 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 33 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 1.41% of the population), there were 2 individuals (or about 0.09% of the population) who belonged 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 60 individuals (or about 2.57% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There were 92 individuals (or about 3.94% of the population) who were Jewish
Judaism
Judaism ) is the "religion, philosophy, and way of life" of the Jewish people...
, and 47 (or about 2.01% 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 5 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...
, 4 individuals who were 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 3 individuals who belonged to another church. 395 (or about 16.93% 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 131 individuals (or about 5.62% of the population) did not answer the question.
Education
In Vandoeuvres about 561 or (24.0%) of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education, and 761 or (32.6%) 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 761 who completed tertiary schooling, 40.7% were Swiss men, 30.4% were Swiss women, 17.1% were non-Swiss men and 11.8% were non-Swiss women.
During the 2009-2010 school year there were a total of 627 students in the Vandoeuvres 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 35 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 Vandoeuvres there were 61 students in kindergarten or primary school and 6 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 61 lower secondary students who attended school in Vandoeuvres. There were 103 upper secondary students from the municipality along with 11 students who were in a professional, non-university track program. An additional 229 students attended a private school.
, there were 33 students in Vandoeuvres who came from another municipality, while 377 residents attended schools outside the municipality.