Granges-Paccot (; frp, Granges-Pacot is a

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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 ...

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

Granges-Paccot is first mentioned in 1317 as ''Grangiarum ante la mota dicti castri''. The municipality was formerly known by its German name ''Zur Schüren'', however, that name is no longer used.

Geography

Granges-Paccot has an area, , of . Of this area, or 45.5% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 15.3% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 31.0% is settled (buildings or roads), or 7.8% is either rivers or lakes.Swiss Federal Statistical Office-Land Use Statistics
2009 data . Retrieved 25 March 2010 Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 3.8% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 11.5% and transportation infrastructure made up 11.5%. Power and water infrastructure as well as other special developed areas made up 2.3% of the area while parks, green belts and sports fields made up 2.0%. Out of the forested land, all of the forested land area is covered with heavy forests. Of the agricultural land, 31.8% is used for growing crops and 12.3% is pastures, while 1.5% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is in lakes. The municipality is located in the Sarine district, north of

and on the left side of the river.

Coat of arms

The

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of the municipal

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is ''Per fess Or a semi Lion rampant issuant Azure langued Gules and of the last on a Bar wavy Argent a Fish nainaint of the second.''

Demographics

Granges-Paccot has a population () of . , 26.3% 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 26.7%. Migration accounted for 13.1%, while births and deaths accounted for 10.3%.
. Retrieved 4 December 2011 Most of the population () speaks French (1,552 or 76.0%) as their first language,

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is the second most common (304 or 14.9%) and

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is the third (46 or 2.3%). There are 2 people who speak Romansh. , the population was 51.2% male and 48.8% female. The population was made up of 927 Swiss men (36.5% of the population) and 373 (14.7%) non-Swiss men. There were 912 Swiss women (35.9%) and 329 (12.9%) non-Swiss women.Canton of Fribourg Statistics
. Retrieved 3 November 2011 Of the population in the municipality, 403 or about 19.7% were born in Granges-Paccot and lived there in 2000. There were 941 or 46.1% who were born in the same canton, while 281 or 13.8% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 381 or 18.7% were born outside of Switzerland. , children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 25.7% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 66.1% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 8.2%. , there were 941 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 933 married individuals, 64 widows or widowers and 104 individuals who are divorced.STAT-TAB Datenwürfel für Thema 40.3 – 2000
. Retrieved 2 February 2011 , there were 859 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.4 persons per household. There were 280 households that consist of only one person and 57 households with five or more people. , a total of 835 apartments (91.7% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 63 apartments (6.9%) were seasonally occupied and 13 apartments (1.4%) 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 20.2 new units per 1000 residents. The vacancy rate for the municipality, , was 1.72%. The historical population is given in the following chart: Colors= id:lightgrey value:gray(0.9) id:darkgrey value:gray(0.8) ImageSize = width:1020 height:210 PlotArea = height:150 left:100 bottom:50 right:100 AlignBars = justify DateFormat = x.y Period = from:0 till:2100 TimeAxis = orientation:vertical AlignBars = justify ScaleMajor = gridcolor:darkgrey increment:400 start:0 ScaleMinor = gridcolor:lightgrey increment:80 start:0 PlotData= color:yellowgreen width:40 mark:(line,white) align:center bar:1811 from:start till:167 text:"167" bar:1850 from:start till:180 text:"180" bar:1860 from:start till:220 text:"220" bar:1870 from:start till:265 text:"265" bar:1880 from:start till:277 text:"277" bar:1888 from:start till:264 text:"264" bar:1900 from:start till:311 text:"311" bar:1910 from:start till:328 text:"328" bar:1920 from:start till:339 text:"339" bar:1930 from:start till:354 text:"354" bar:1941 from:start till:363 text:"363" bar:1950 from:start till:488 text:"488" bar:1960 from:start till:761 text:"761" bar:1970 from:start till:1303 text:"1,303" bar:1980 from:start till:1143 text:"1,143" bar:1990 from:start till:1695 text:"1,695" bar:2000 from:start till:2042 text:"2,042"

Heritage sites of national significance

The Viaduc De Grandfey (Grandfey Bridge), which is shared with Düdingen, is listed as a Swiss heritage site of national significance.

Politics

In the 2011 federal election the most popular party was the

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which received 30.6% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the CVP (21.1%), the SVP (20.7%) and the FDP (8.0%).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

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(31.1% in 2007 vs 30.6% in 2011). The CVP retained about the same popularity (23.2% in 2007), the SVP retained about the same popularity (18.6% in 2007) and the FDP retained about the same popularity (10.6% in 2007). A total of 533 votes were cast in this election, of which 10 or 1.9% were invalid.

Economy

, Granges-Paccot had an unemployment rate of 4.6%. , there were 24 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 8 businesses involved in this sector. 432 people were employed in the

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and there were 30 businesses in this sector. 2,474 people were employed in the

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, with 159 businesses in this sector. There were 1,176 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 45.5% of the workforce. the total number of

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jobs was 2,438. The number of jobs in the primary sector was 21, all of which were in agriculture. The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 412 of which 275 or (66.7%) were in manufacturing and 105 (25.5%) were in construction. The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 2,005. In the tertiary sector; 768 or 38.3% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 15 or 0.7% were in the movement and storage of goods, 108 or 5.4% were in a hotel or restaurant, 15 or 0.7% were in the information industry, 80 or 4.0% were the insurance or financial industry, 151 or 7.5% were technical professionals or scientists, 195 or 9.7% were in education and 13 or 0.6% were in health care. , there were 1,820 workers who commuted into the municipality and 933 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net importer of workers, with about 2.0 workers entering the municipality for every one leaving.Swiss Federal Statistical Office – Statweb
. Retrieved 24 June 2010 Of the working population, 18.6% used public transportation to get to work, and 63.9% used a private car.

Religion

From the , 1,613 or 79.0% were

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, while 172 or 8.4% belonged to the

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. Of the rest of the population, there were 23 members of an Orthodox church (or about 1.13% of the population), and there were 58 individuals (or about 2.84% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There were 58 (or about 2.84% of the population) who were

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ic. There were 14 individuals who were

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and 6 individuals who were

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. 88 (or about 4.31% of the population) belonged to no church, are

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, and 37 individuals (or about 1.81% of the population) did not answer the question.

Education

In Granges-Paccot about 746 or (36.5%) of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education, and 284 or (13.9%) have completed additional higher education (either

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or a ''

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''). Of the 284 who completed tertiary schooling, 56.0% were Swiss men, 26.1% were Swiss women, 11.6% were non-Swiss men and 6.3% were non-Swiss women. The Canton of Fribourg school system provides one year of non-obligatory

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, 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

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.Chart of the education system in Canton Fribourg
During the 2010–11 school year, there were a total of 300 students attending 20 classes in Granges-Paccot. A total of 487 students from the municipality attended any school, either in the municipality or outside of it. There were 3 kindergarten classes with a total of 56 students in the municipality. The municipality had 9 primary classes and 154 students. During the same year, there were no lower secondary classes in the municipality, but 100 students attended lower secondary school in a neighboring municipality. There were no upper Secondary classes or vocational classes, but there were 62 upper Secondary students and 84 upper Secondary vocational students who attended classes in another municipality. The municipality had 8 non-university Tertiary classes, with 90 non-university Tertiary students. , there were 105 students in Granges-Paccot who came from another municipality, while 158 residents attended schools outside the municipality.

References

External links

Official website
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