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Avry ( frp, Avri) is a
municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...
in the district of Sarine in the canton of
Fribourg , neighboring_municipalities= Düdingen, Givisiez, Granges-Paccot, Marly, Pierrafortscha, Sankt Ursen, Tafers, Villars-sur-Glâne , twintowns = Rueil-Malmaison (France) , website = www.ville-fribourg.ch , Location of , Location of () () o ...
in
Switzerland ). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...
. The municipality is the result of the 1 January 2001 union of Avry-sur-Matran and Corjolens.Amtliches Gemeindeverzeichnis der Schweiz
published by the Swiss Federal Statistical Office . Retrieved 19 July 2011


Geography

Avry has an area, , of . Of this area, or 72.2% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 11.5% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 15.8% is settled (buildings or roads) and or 0.2% is unproductive land.
2009 data . Retrieved 25 March 2010
Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 1.7% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 8.4% and transportation infrastructure made up 5.0%. Out of the forested land, all of the forested land area is covered with heavy forests. Of the agricultural land, 53.7% is used for growing crops and 17.8% is pastures.


Coat of arms

The
blazon 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. The verb ''to blazon'' means to create such a description. The vis ...
of the municipal
coat of arms A coat of arms is a heraldry, heraldic communication design, visual design on an escutcheon (heraldry), escutcheon (i.e., shield), surcoat, or tabard (the latter two being outer garments). The coat of arms on an escutcheon forms the central ele ...
is ''Chevrony of six Argent and Sable''. This coat of arms is the same as the one from the former municipality of Avry-sur-Matran.


Demographics

Avry has a population () of . , 13.3% of the population are resident foreign nationals.Swiss Federal Statistical Office – Superweb database – Gemeinde Statistics 1981-2008
. Retrieved 19 June 2010
Over the last 10 years (2000–2010) the population has changed at a rate of 29.6%. Migration accounted for 22.4%, while births and deaths accounted for 7.7%.
. Retrieved 1 December 2011
Most of the population () speaks French (1,047 or 86.2%) as their first language,
German German(s) may refer to: * Germany (of or related to) ** Germania (historical use) * Germans, citizens of Germany, people of German ancestry, or native speakers of the German language ** For citizens of Germany, see also German nationality law **Ge ...
is the second most common (99 or 8.1%) and
Albanian Albanian may refer to: *Pertaining to Albania in Southeast Europe; in particular: **Albanians, an ethnic group native to the Balkans **Albanian language **Albanian culture **Demographics of Albania, includes other ethnic groups within the country ...
is the third (13 or 1.1%). There are 12 people who speak
Italian Italian(s) may refer to: * Anything of, from, or related to the people of Italy over the centuries ** Italians, an ethnic group or simply a citizen of the Italian Republic or Italian Kingdom ** Italian language, a Romance language *** Regional Ita ...
. , the population was 51.1% male and 48.9% female. The population was made up of 713 Swiss men (42.8% of the population) and 138 (8.3%) non-Swiss men. There were 698 Swiss women (41.9%) and 115 (6.9%) non-Swiss women.Canton of Fribourg Statistics
. Retrieved 3 November 2011
Of the population in the municipality, 251 or about 20.7% were born in Avry and lived there in 2000. There were 564 or 46.4% who were born in the same canton, while 172 or 14.2% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 198 or 16.3% were born outside of Switzerland. , children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 27.7% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 64.2% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 8.1%. , there were 561 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 569 married individuals, 31 widows or widowers and 54 individuals who are divorced.STAT-TAB Datenwürfel für Thema 40.3 – 2000
. Retrieved 2 February 2011
, there were 475 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.7 persons per household. There were 108 households that consist of only one person and 51 households with five or more people. , a total of 434 apartments (94.1% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 19 apartments (4.1%) were seasonally occupied and 8 apartments (1.7%) were empty.Swiss Federal Statistical Office STAT-TAB – Datenwürfel für Thema 09.2 – Gebäude und Wohnungen
. Retrieved 28 January 2011
, the construction rate of new housing units was 3 new units per 1000 residents. The vacancy rate for the municipality, , was 0.15%. The historical population is given in the following chart: Colors= id:lightgrey value:gray(0.9) id:darkgrey value:gray(0.8) ImageSize = width:960 height:210 PlotArea = height:150 left:100 bottom:50 right:100 AlignBars = justify DateFormat = x.y Period = from:0 till:1300 TimeAxis = orientation:vertical AlignBars = justify ScaleMajor = gridcolor:darkgrey increment:300 start:0 ScaleMinor = gridcolor:lightgrey increment:60 start:0 PlotData= color:yellowgreen width:40 mark:(line,white) align:center bar:1850 from:start till:316 text:"316" bar:1860 from:start till:308 text:"308" bar:1870 from:start till:315 text:"315" bar:1880 from:start till:371 text:"371" bar:1888 from:start till:362 text:"362" bar:1900 from:start till:409 text:"409" bar:1910 from:start till:363 text:"363" bar:1920 from:start till:399 text:"399" bar:1930 from:start till:388 text:"388" bar:1941 from:start till:421 text:"421" bar:1950 from:start till:411 text:"411" bar:1960 from:start till:348 text:"348" bar:1970 from:start till:502 text:"502" bar:1980 from:start till:853 text:"853" bar:1990 from:start till:1040 text:"1,040" bar:2000 from:start till:1215 text:"1,215"


Politics

In the 2011 federal election the most popular party was the SP which received 26.9% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SVP (19.2%), the FDP (18.1%) and the CVP (14.4%).Canton of Fribourg National Council Election of 23 October 2011 Statistics
. Retrieved 3 November 2011
The SPS received about the same percentage of the vote as they did in the 2007 Federal election (26.4% in 2007 vs 26.9% in 2011). The SVP moved from third in 2007 (with 18.5%) to second in 2011, the FDP moved from second in 2007 (with 23.9%) to third and the CVP retained about the same popularity (15.4% in 2007). A total of 604 votes were cast in this election, of which 9 or 1.5% were invalid.


Economy

, Avry had an unemployment rate of 2.6%. , there were 46 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 14 businesses involved in this sector. 185 people were employed in the
secondary sector In macroeconomics, the secondary sector of the economy is an economic sector in the three-sector theory that describes the role of manufacturing. It encompasses industries that produce a finished, usable product or are involved in construction. ...
and there were 17 businesses in this sector. 1,016 people were employed in the
tertiary sector The tertiary sector of the economy, generally known as the service sector, is the third of the three economic sectors in the three-sector model (also known as the economic cycle). The others are the primary sector (raw materials) and the second ...
, with 100 businesses in this sector. There were 667 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 43.6% of the workforce. the total number of
full-time equivalent Full-time equivalent (FTE), or whole time equivalent (WTE), is a unit that indicates the workload of an employee, employed person (or student) in a way that makes workloads or class loads comparable across various contexts. FTE is often used to me ...
jobs was 964. The number of jobs in the primary sector was 36, all of which were in agriculture. The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 177 of which 90 or (50.8%) were in manufacturing and 52 (29.4%) were in construction. The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 751. In the tertiary sector; 510 or 67.9% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 10 or 1.3% were in the movement and storage of goods, 72 or 9.6% were in a hotel or restaurant, 2 or 0.3% were in the information industry, 9 or 1.2% were the insurance or financial industry, 30 or 4.0% were technical professionals or scientists, 55 or 7.3% were in education and 26 or 3.5% were in health care. , there were 841 workers who commuted into the municipality and 507 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net importer of workers, with about 1.7 workers entering the municipality for every one leaving.Swiss Federal Statistical Office – Statweb
. Retrieved 24 June 2010
Of the working population, 11.8% used public transportation to get to work, and 71.7% used a private car.


Religion

From the , 918 or 75.6% were
Roman Catholic Roman or Romans most often refers to: *Rome, the capital city of Italy *Ancient Rome, Roman civilization from 8th century BC to 5th century AD *Roman people, the people of ancient Rome *'' Epistle to the Romans'', shortened to ''Romans'', a lette ...
, while 133 or 10.9% belonged to the
Swiss Reformed Church The Protestant Church in Switzerland (PCS), (EKS); french: Église évangélique réformée de Suisse (EERS); it, Chiesa evangelica riformata in Svizzera (CERiS); rm, Baselgia evangelica refurmada da la Svizra (BRRS) formerly named Federation o ...
. Of the rest of the population, there were 11 members of an Orthodox church (or about 0.91% of the population), and there were 22 individuals (or about 1.81% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There were 32 (or about 2.63% of the population) who were
Islam Islam (; ar, ۘالِإسلَام, , ) is an Abrahamic religions, Abrahamic Monotheism#Islam, monotheistic religion centred primarily around the Quran, a religious text considered by Muslims to be the direct word of God in Islam, God (or ...
ic. There were 2 individuals who were
Hindu Hindus (; ) are people who religiously adhere to Hinduism.Jeffery D. Long (2007), A Vision for Hinduism, IB Tauris, , pages 35–37 Historically, the term has also been used as a geographical, cultural, and later religious identifier for ...
and 2 individuals who belonged to another church. 69 (or about 5.68% of the population) belonged to no church, are
agnostic Agnosticism is the view or belief that the existence of God, of the divine or the supernatural is unknown or unknowable. (page 56 in 1967 edition) Another definition provided is the view that "human reason is incapable of providing sufficient ...
or
atheist Atheism, in the broadest sense, is an absence of belief in the existence of deities. Less broadly, atheism is a rejection of the belief that any deities exist. In an even narrower sense, atheism is specifically the position that there no ...
, and 36 individuals (or about 2.96% of the population) did not answer the question.


Education

In Avry about 394 or (32.4%) of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education, and 221 or (18.2%) have completed additional higher education (either
university A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. In the United States, t ...
or a ''
Fachhochschule A ''Fachhochschule'' (; plural ''Fachhochschulen''), abbreviated FH, is a university of applied sciences (UAS), in other words a German tertiary education institution that provides professional education in many applied sciences and applied arts ...
''). Of the 221 who completed tertiary schooling, 57.9% were Swiss men, 28.1% were Swiss women, 7.2% were non-Swiss men and 6.8% were non-Swiss women. The Canton of Fribourg school system provides one year of non-obligatory
Kindergarten Kindergarten is a preschool educational approach based on playing, singing, practical activities such as drawing, and social interaction as part of the transition from home to school. Such institutions were originally made in the late 18th cent ...
, followed by six years of Primary school. This is followed by three years of obligatory lower Secondary school where the students are separated according to ability and aptitude. Following the lower Secondary students may attend a three or four year optional upper Secondary school. The upper Secondary school is divided into gymnasium (university preparatory) and vocational programs. After they finish the upper Secondary program, students may choose to attend a Tertiary school or continue their
apprenticeship Apprenticeship is a system for training a new generation of practitioners of a Tradesman, trade or profession with on-the-job training and often some accompanying study (classroom work and reading). Apprenticeships can also enable practitioners ...
.Chart of the education system in Canton Fribourg
During the 2010–11 school year, there were a total of 706 students attending 37 classes in Avry. A total of 342 students from the municipality attended any school, either in the municipality or outside of it. There were 2 kindergarten classes with a total of 29 students in the municipality. The municipality had 7 primary classes and 142 students. During the same year, there were 28 lower secondary classes with a total of 535 students. There were no upper Secondary classes or vocational classes, but there were 58 upper Secondary students and 35 upper Secondary vocational students who attended classes in another municipality. The municipality had no non-university Tertiary classes, but there were 2 non-university Tertiary students and 8 specialized Tertiary students who attended classes in another municipality. , there were 8 students in Avry who came from another municipality, while 131 residents attended schools outside the municipality.


Transportation

The municipality has a railway station, , on the Lausanne–Bern line. It has regular service to and .


References


External links


Official website
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