Marly (; frp, Marli ) 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 () () ...

in Switzerland. Its German name is ''Mertenlach'', but this is no longer common, although still in regional use. It was formed through the 1970 merger of Marly-le-Grand and Marly-le-Petit and the 1976 addition of the former municipality of Chésalles.Nomenklaturen – Amtliches Gemeindeverzeichnis der Schweiz
accessed 4 April 2011

History

Marly is first mentioned in 1055 as ''in marlensi''.

Geography

Marly has an area, , of . Of this area, or 35.2% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 29.4% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 30.8% is settled (buildings or roads), or 4.3% is either rivers or lakes and or 0.1% is unproductive land.
2009 data accessed 25 March 2010 Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 4.2% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 17.1% and transportation infrastructure made up 6.4%. Power and water infrastructure as well as other special developed areas made up 1.3% of the area while parks, green belts and sports fields made up 1.8%. Out of the forested land, 27.5% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.8% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 19.2% is used for growing crops and 15.8% is pastures. All the water in the municipality is flowing water. The municipality is located in the Sarine district, south of Fribourg on the Gérine river. It is an industrial town and regional center. It consists of the villages of Marly-le Grand, Marly-le Petit and Chésalles.

Coat of arms

The

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of the municipal

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is ''Gules a bar wavy Azure and overall a Knight statant armoured Argent holding a Pike in dexter and a Sword seafed on a Belt in sinister and in chief sinister three alder-tree leaves Or slipped conjoined.'' The coat of arms was changed in 1991 to reflect the earlier mergers that formed Marly. The blue wavy stripe symbolizes the river Gerine.

Demographics

Marly has a population () of . , 22.5% 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 (2000–2010) the population has changed at a rate of 12.4%. Migration accounted for 3.3%, while births and deaths accounted for 6.1%.
accessed 10-December-2011 Most of the population () speaks French (5,262 or 73.2%) as their first language, German is the second most common (1,243 or 17.3%) and Italian is the third (151 or 2.1%). There are 10 people who speak Romansh. , the population was 48.8% male and 51.2% female. The population was made up of 2,783 Swiss men (36.3% of the population) and 960 (12.5%) non-Swiss men. There were 3,086 Swiss women (40.2%) and 846 (11.0%) non-Swiss women.Canton of Fribourg Statistics
accessed 3 November 2011 Of the population in the municipality, 1,647 or about 22.9% were born in Marly and lived there in 2000. There were 2,641 or 36.8% who were born in the same canton, while 1,298 or 18.1% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 1,398 or 19.5% were born outside of Switzerland. , children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 25.1% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 64.4% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 10.5%. , there were 3,133 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 3,402 married individuals, 293 widows or widowers and 356 individuals who are divorced.STAT-TAB Datenwürfel für Thema 40.3 – 2000
accessed 2 February 2011 , there were 2,801 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.5 persons per household. There were 808 households that consist of only one person and 219 households with five or more people. , a total of 2,747 apartments (90.8% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 203 apartments (6.7%) were seasonally occupied and 75 apartments (2.5%) were empty.Swiss Federal Statistical Office STAT-TAB – Datenwürfel für Thema 09.2 – Gebäude und Wohnungen
accessed 28 January 2011 , the construction rate of new housing units was 1.7 new units per 1000 residents. The vacancy rate for the municipality, , was 1.3%. 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:7200 TimeAxis = orientation:vertical AlignBars = justify ScaleMajor = gridcolor:darkgrey increment:1400 start:0 ScaleMinor = gridcolor:lightgrey increment:280 start:0 PlotData= color:yellowgreen width:40 mark:(line,white) align:center bar:1850 from:start till:435 text:"435" bar:1860 from:start till:449 text:"449" bar:1870 from:start till:476 text:"476" bar:1880 from:start till:558 text:"558" bar:1888 from:start till:599 text:"599" bar:1900 from:start till:774 text:"774" bar:1910 from:start till:829 text:"829" bar:1920 from:start till:660 text:"660" bar:1930 from:start till:822 text:"822" bar:1941 from:start till:1066 text:"1,066" bar:1950 from:start till:1334 text:"1,334" bar:1960 from:start till:1813 text:"1,813" bar:1970 from:start till:4329 text:"4,329" bar:1980 from:start till:5235 text:"5,235" bar:1990 from:start till:6578 text:"6,578" bar:2000 from:start till:7184 text:"7,184"

Politics

In the 2011 federal election the most popular party was the SPS which received 33.1% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SVP (19.1%), the CVP (17.6%) and the FDP (8.9%).Canton of Fribourg National Council Election of 23 October 2011 Statistics
accessed 3 November 2011 The SPS improved their position in Marly rising to first, from second in 2007 (with 26.6%) The SVP moved from third in 2007 (with 18.8%) to second in 2011, the CVP moved from first in 2007 (with 27.0%) to third and the FDP retained about the same popularity (9.6% in 2007). A total of 2,329 votes were cast in this election, of which 30 or 1.3% were invalid.

Economy

, Marly had an unemployment rate of 4%. , there were 24 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 11 businesses involved in this sector. 727 people were employed in the

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and there were 47 businesses in this sector. 1,429 people were employed in the

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, with 183 businesses in this sector. There were 3,601 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 45.5% 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 employed person (or student) in a way that makes workloads or class loads comparable across various contexts. FTE is often used to measure a ...

jobs was 1,812. The number of jobs in the primary sector was 19, all of which were in agriculture. The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 689 of which 488 or (70.8%) were in manufacturing and 195 (28.3%) were in construction. The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 1,104. In the tertiary sector; 427 or 38.7% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 36 or 3.3% were in the movement and storage of goods, 65 or 5.9% were in a hotel or restaurant, 3 or 0.3% were in the information industry, 51 or 4.6% were the insurance or financial industry, 116 or 10.5% were technical professionals or scientists, 98 or 8.9% were in education and 195 or 17.7% were in health care. , there were 1,560 workers who commuted into the municipality and 2,619 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 1.7 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering.Swiss Federal Statistical Office – Statweb
accessed 24 June 2010 Of the working population, 19.5% used public transportation to get to work, and 62.8% used a private car.

Religion

From the , 5,289 or 73.6% were

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, while 645 or 9.0% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church. Of the rest of the population, there were 97 members of an Orthodox church (or about 1.35% of the population), there were 6 individuals (or about 0.08% of the population) who belonged to the Christian Catholic Church, and there were 96 individuals (or about 1.34% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There were 10 individuals (or about 0.14% of the population) who were

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, and 273 (or about 3.80% of the population) who were Islamic. There were 29 individuals who were

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, 11 individuals who were

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and 5 individuals who belonged to another church. 502 (or about 6.99% of the population) belonged to no church, are agnostic or atheist, and 264 individuals (or about 3.67% of the population) did not answer the question.

Education

In Marly about 2,341 or (32.6%) of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education, and 1,223 or (17.0%) have completed additional higher education (either

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or a '' Fachhochschule''). Of the 1,223 who completed tertiary schooling, 56.8% were Swiss men, 25.9% were Swiss women, 10.2% were non-Swiss men and 7.0% 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 1,096 students attending 56 classes in Marly. A total of 1,335 students from the municipality attended any school, either in the municipality or outside of it. There were 4 kindergarten classes with a total of 68 students in the municipality. The municipality had 24 primary classes and 448 students. During the same year, there were 27 lower secondary classes with a total of 570 students. There were no upper Secondary classes or vocational classes, but there were 216 upper Secondary students and 183 upper Secondary vocational students who attended classes in another municipality. The municipality had one special Tertiary class, with 10 specialized Tertiary students. , there were 299 students in Marly who came from another municipality, while 716 residents attended schools outside the municipality.

References

External links

Official website
{{Authority control Municipalities of the canton of Fribourg