Chavannes-sur-Moudon is a
municipality
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in the district
Broye-Vully in the
canton of
Vaud
Vaud ( ; french: (Canton de) Vaud, ; german: (Kanton) Waadt, or ), more formally the canton of Vaud, is one of the 26 cantons forming the Swiss Confederation. It is composed of ten districts and its capital city is Lausanne. Its coat of arms b ...
in
Switzerland.
History
Chavannes-sur-Moudon is first mentioned in 1453 as ''Chavanes''.
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Geography
Chavannes-sur-Moudon has an area, , of . Of this area, or 75.5% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 19.5% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 5.3% is settled (buildings or roads).[Swiss Federal Statistical Office-Land Use Statistics]
2009 data accessed 25 March 2010
Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 1.9% and transportation infrastructure made up 3.1%. Out of the forested land, 18.3% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.2% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 54.1% is used for growing crops and 20.8% is pastures.[
The municipality was part of the Moudon District until it was dissolved on 31 August 2006, and Chavannes-sur-Moudon became part of the new district of Broye-Vully.][Nomenklaturen – Amtliches Gemeindeverzeichnis der Schweiz]
accessed 4 April 2011
The municipality is located on the right bank of the Broye and near the border with the Canton of Fribourg.
Coat of arms
The blazon
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of the municipal coat of arms
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is ''Gules, issuant from sinister an Arm holding a Key all of Argent.''
Demographics
Chavannes-sur-Moudon has a population () of . , 7.7% of the population are resident foreign nationals.[Swiss Federal Statistical Office - Superweb database - Gemeinde Statistics 1981-2008]
accessed 19 June 2010 Over the last 10 years (1999–2009 ) the population has changed at a rate of -1.9%. It has changed at a rate of -1.4% due to migration and at a rate of 0% due to births and deaths.
accessed 10-May-2011German
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being second most common (6 or 3.0%) and Albanian being third (1 or 0.5%).[
Of the population in the municipality 88 or about 44.7% were born in Chavannes-sur-Moudon and lived there in 2000. There were 66 or 33.5% who were born in the same canton, while 31 or 15.7% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 11 or 5.6% were born outside of Switzerland.][
In there were no live births to Swiss citizens and 3 deaths of Swiss citizens. Ignoring immigration and emigration, the population of Swiss citizens decreased by 3 while the foreign population remained the same. The total Swiss population change in 2008 (from all sources, including moves across municipal borders) was a decrease of 5 and the non-Swiss population decreased by 1 people. This represents a ]population growth rate
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of -2.8%.[
The age distribution, , in Chavannes-sur-Moudon is; 24 children or 11.7% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 25 teenagers or 12.2% are between 10 and 19. Of the adult population, 14 people or 6.8% of the population are between 20 and 29 years old. 23 people or 11.2% are between 30 and 39, 37 people or 18.0% are between 40 and 49, and 32 people or 15.6% are between 50 and 59. The senior population distribution is 23 people or 11.2% of the population are between 60 and 69 years old, 14 people or 6.8% are between 70 and 79, there are 12 people or 5.9% who are between 80 and 89, and there is 1 person who is 90 and older.][Canton of Vaud Statistical Office]
accessed 29 April 2011
, there were 75 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 99 married individuals, 16 widows or widowers and 7 individuals who are divorced.[STAT-TAB Datenwürfel für Thema 40.3 - 2000]
accessed 2 February 2011
, there were 78 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.5 persons per household.[ There were 20 households that consist of only one person and 9 households with five or more people. Out of a total of 80 households that answered this question, 25.0% were households made up of just one person. Of the rest of the households, there are 29 married couples without children, 25 married couples with children. There were 3 single parents with a child or children. There was 1 household that was made up of unrelated people and 2 households that were made up of some sort of institution or another collective housing.][
there were 24 single family homes (or 40.0% of the total) out of a total of 60 inhabited buildings. There were 10 multi-family buildings (16.7%) and along with 26 multi-purpose buildings that were mostly used for housing (43.3%). Of the single family homes 8 were built before 1919, while 3 were built between 1990 and 2000. The most multi-family homes (7) were built before 1919 and the next most (2) were built between 1981 and 1990.][Swiss Federal Statistical Office STAT-TAB - Datenwürfel für Thema 09.2 - Gebäude und Wohnungen]
accessed 28 January 2011
there were 85 apartments in the municipality. The most common apartment size was 3 rooms of which there were 22. There were single room apartments and 35 apartments with five or more rooms. Of these apartments, a total of 75 apartments (88.2% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 9 apartments (10.6%) were seasonally occupied and 1 apartments (1.2%) were empty.[ , the construction rate of new housing units was 0 new units per 1000 residents.][ The vacancy rate for the municipality, , was 0%.][
The historical population is given in the following chart:]
Sights
The entire village of Chavannes-sur-Moudon is designated as part of the Inventory of Swiss Heritage Sites.
Politics
In the 2007 federal election
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the most popular party was the SVP which received 48.56% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the FDP (19.38%), the SP (13.69%) and the Green Party
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(5.04%). In the federal election, a total of 81 votes were cast, and the voter turnout
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was 51.9%.
Economy
, Chavannes-sur-Moudon had an unemployment rate of 2.1%. , there were 48 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 18 businesses involved in this sector. 1 person was employed in the secondary sector
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and there was 1 business in this sector. 3 people were employed in the tertiary sector
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, with 2 businesses in this sector.[ There were 104 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 42.3% of the workforce.
the total number of ]full-time equivalent
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jobs was 33. The number of jobs in the primary sector was 30, all of which were in agriculture. The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 1, all of which were in construction. The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 2, of which 1 was in education.
, there were 3 workers who commuted into the municipality and 56 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 18.7 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering.[Swiss Federal Statistical Office - Statweb]
accessed 24 June 2010 Of the working population, 5.8% used public transportation to get to work, and 51.9% used a private car.[
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Religion
From the , 37 or 18.8% were Roman Catholic
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, while 141 or 71.6% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church. Of the rest of the population, there was 1 member of an Orthodox church who belonged. There was 1 individual who was Jewish
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, and 3 (or about 1.52% of the population) who were Islamic. 11 (or about 5.58% of the population) belonged to no church, are agnostic or atheist, and 3 individuals (or about 1.52% of the population) did not answer the question.[
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Education
In Chavannes-sur-Moudon about 62 or (31.5%) of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education, and 20 or (10.2%) have completed additional higher education (either university
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or a '' Fachhochschule''). Of the 20 who completed tertiary schooling, 55.0% were Swiss men, 45.0% were Swiss women.[
In the 2009/2010 school year there were a total of 27 students in the Chavannes-sur-Moudon school district. In the Vaud cantonal school system, two years of non-obligatory pre-school are provided by the political districts.Organigramme de l'école vaudoise, année scolaire 2009-2010]
accessed 2 May 2011 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
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program requires students to attend for four years. There were 14 students in the municipal primary school program. The obligatory lower secondary school program lasts for six years and there were 13 students in those schools.[Canton of Vaud Statistical Office - Scol. obligatoire/filières de transition]
accessed 2 May 2011
, there were 12 students in Chavannes-sur-Moudon who came from another municipality, while 22 residents attended schools outside the municipality.[
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References
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Municipalities of the canton of Vaud
Cultural property of national significance in the canton of Vaud