Chêne-Pâquier is a

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in the district of Jura-Nord Vaudois of the

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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 ...

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 ...

History

Pâquier is first mentioned in 1462 as ''Pascua''. In 1517 it was mentioned as ''Pasquier'' and in 1550, Chêne was mentioned as ''loz Chanoz''.

Geography

Chêne-Pâquier has an area, , of . Of this area, or 68.9% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 24.1% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 5.2% 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 0.9% and transportation infrastructure made up 3.8%. Out of the forested land, 22.6% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.4% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 60.8% is used for growing crops and 7.5% is pastures. The municipality was part of the

Yverdon District Yverdon District was a district of the canton of Vaud in Switzerland until 2006 when it was dissolved. It was divided into the Cercles of Molondin, Belmont-sur-Yverdon, Yverdon and Champvent. The district consisted of 38 municipalities, is 156 ...

until it was dissolved on 31 August 2006, and Chêne-Pâquier became part of the new district of Jura-Nord Vaudois.Nomenklaturen – Amtliches Gemeindeverzeichnis der Schweiz
accessed 4 April 2011 The municipality consists of the

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of Le Chêne and Le Pâquier.

Coat of arms

The

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of the municipal

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is ''Argent, a Base Vert, an Oak Tree proper leaved Vert and fructed of three Acorns Gules.''

Demographics

Chêne-Pâquier has a population () of . , 2.8% 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 4.7%. It has changed at a rate of 3.7% due to migration and at a rate of 0.9% due to births and deaths.
accessed 19-August-2011 Most of the population () speaks

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(98 or 94.2%) as their first language, with

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being second most common (4 or 3.8%) and

Serbo-Croatian Serbo-Croatian () – also called Serbo-Croat (), Serbo-Croat-Bosnian (SCB), Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian (BCS), and Bosnian-Croatian-Montenegrin-Serbian (BCMS) – is a South Slavic language and the primary language of Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and ...

being third (1 or 1.0%). The age distribution, , in Chêne-Pâquier is; 8 children or 7.1% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 16 teenagers or 14.3% are between 10 and 19. Of the adult population, 18 people or 16.1% of the population are between 20 and 29 years old. 11 people or 9.8% are between 30 and 39, 15 people or 13.4% are between 40 and 49, and 14 people or 12.5% are between 50 and 59. The senior population distribution is 11 people or 9.8% of the population are between 60 and 69 years old, 12 people or 10.7% are between 70 and 79, there are 6 people or 5.4% 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 46 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 44 married individuals, 10 widows or widowers and 4 individuals who are divorced.STAT-TAB Datenwürfel für Thema 40.3 - 2000
accessed 2 February 2011 , there were 41 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.5 persons per household. There were 14 households that consist of only one person and 6 households with five or more people. Out of a total of 42 households that answered this question, 33.3% were households made up of just one person and there was 1 adult who lived with their parents. Of the rest of the households, there are 9 married couples without children, 16 married couples with children There was one single parent with a child or children. there were 25 single family homes (or 64.1% of the total) out of a total of 39 inhabited buildings. There were 3 multi-family buildings (7.7%), along with 10 multi-purpose buildings that were mostly used for housing (25.6%) and 1 other use buildings (commercial or industrial) that also had some housing (2.6%).Swiss Federal Statistical Office STAT-TAB - Datenwürfel für Thema 09.2 - Gebäude und Wohnungen
accessed 28 January 2011 , a total of 39 apartments (88.6% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 2 apartments (4.5%) were seasonally occupied and 3 apartments (6.8%) 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: Colors= id:lightgrey value:gray(0.9) id:darkgrey value:gray(0.8) ImageSize = width:1080 height:210 PlotArea = height:150 left:100 bottom:50 right:100 AlignBars = justify DateFormat = x.y Period = from:0 till:230 TimeAxis = orientation:vertical AlignBars = justify ScaleMajor = gridcolor:darkgrey increment:50 start:0 ScaleMinor = gridcolor:lightgrey increment:10 start:0 PlotData= color:yellowgreen width:40 mark:(line,white) align:center bar:1550 from:start till:28 bar:1550 at:38 fontsize:S text: " 7 Hearths" shift:(8,5) bar:1764 from:start till:99 text:"99" bar:1850 from:start till:224 text:"224" bar:1860 from:start till:207 text:"207" bar:1870 from:start till:199 text:"199" bar:1880 from:start till:207 text:"207" bar:1888 from:start till:180 text:"180" bar:1900 from:start till:172 text:"172" bar:1910 from:start till:175 text:"175" bar:1920 from:start till:193 text:"193" bar:1930 from:start till:149 text:"149" bar:1941 from:start till:130 text:"130" bar:1950 from:start till:145 text:"145" bar:1960 from:start till:111 text:"111" bar:1970 from:start till:106 text:"106" bar:1980 from:start till:103 text:"103" bar:1990 from:start till:110 text:"110" bar:2000 from:start till:104 text:"104"

Heritage sites of national significance

The Temple and Cure is listed as a Swiss heritage site of national significance. The entire area around Chêne-Pâquier is part of the

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Politics

In the

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the most popular party was the SVP which received 36.59% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the FDP (25.24%), the SP (12.56%) and the

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(7.2%). In the federal election, a total of 47 votes were cast, and the

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was 53.4%.

Economy

, Chêne-Pâquier had an unemployment rate of 2.5%. , there were 10 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 4 businesses involved in this sector. 24 people were employed in the

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and there were 2 businesses in this sector. No one was employed in the

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. There were 43 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 46.5% of the workforce. the total number of

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jobs was 30. The number of jobs in the primary sector was 6, all of which were in agriculture. The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 24, all of which were in construction.Swiss Federal Statistical Office STAT-TAB Betriebszählung: Arbeitsstätten nach Gemeinde und NOGA 2008 (Abschnitte), Sektoren 1-3
accessed 28 January 2011 , there were 5 workers who commuted into the municipality and 30 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 6.0 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering.Swiss Federal Statistical Office - Statweb
accessed 24 June 2010 Of the working population, 4.7% used public transportation to get to work, and 67.4% used a private car.

Religion

From the , 7 or 6.7% were

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, while 93 or 89.4% 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 2 members of an Orthodox church (or about 1.92% of the population), and there was 1 individual who belongs to another Christian church. 1 (or about 0.96% 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 ...

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 ...

Education

In Chêne-Pâquier about 41 or (39.4%) of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education, and 8 or (7.7%) have completed additional higher education (either

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or a ''

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''). Of the 8 who completed tertiary schooling, 50.0% were Swiss men, 50.0% were Swiss women. , there were 10 students in Chêne-Pâquier who came from another municipality, while 20 residents attended schools outside the municipality.

References

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