Montalchez is a former
municipality
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The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...
in the district of
Boudry in the
canton of
Neuchâtel in
Switzerland. On 1 January 2018 the former municipalities of
Bevaix,
Saint-Aubin-Sauges
Saint-Aubin-Sauges is a former municipality in the district of Boudry in the canton of Neuchâtel in Switzerland. On 1 January 2018 the former municipalities of Bevaix, Saint-Aubin-Sauges, Gorgier, Vaumarcus, Montalchez and Fresens merged ...
,
Gorgier
Gorgier is a former municipality in the district of Boudry in the canton of Neuchâtel in Switzerland. On 1 January 2018 the former municipalities of Bevaix, Saint-Aubin-Sauges, Gorgier, Vaumarcus, Montalchez and Fresens merged into the new ...
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Vaumarcus, Montalchez and
Fresens
Fresens is a former municipality in the district of Boudry in the canton of Neuchâtel in Switzerland. On 1 January 2018 the former municipalities of Bevaix, Saint-Aubin-Sauges, Gorgier, Vaumarcus, Montalchez and Fresens merged into the n ...
merged into the new municipality of
La Grande-Béroche.
History
Montalchez is first mentioned in 1340 as ''villa de Montallichie''.
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Geography
Montalchez has an area, , of . Of this area, or 57.9% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 37.5% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 4.2% is settled (buildings or roads) and or 0.2% is unproductive land.[Swiss Federal Statistical Office-Land Use Statistics]
2009 data accessed 25 March 2010
Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 2.3% and transportation infrastructure made up 1.6%. Out of the forested land, 33.8% of the total land area is heavily forested and 3.7% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 17.9% is used for growing crops and 22.1% is pastures, while 1.2% is used for orchards or vine crops and 16.7% is used for alpine pastures.[
The municipality is located in the Boudry district. It consists of the village of Montalchez and the ]hamlet
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of Erperens.
Coat of arms
The blazon
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of the municipal coat of arms
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is ''Per fess Argent and Gules, a Rose counterchanged.''
Demographics
Montalchez has a population () of . , 4.4% 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 37.6%. It has changed at a rate of 27.1% due to migration and at a rate of 10% due to births and deaths.
accessed 20-October-2011German
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is the second most common (3 or 1.6%) and English
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is the third (1 or 0.5%).[
, the population was 52.5% male and 47.5% female. The population was made up of 122 Swiss men (51.7% of the population) and 2 (0.8%) non-Swiss men. There were 105 Swiss women (44.5%) and 7 (3.0%) non-Swiss women.][Canton of Neuchatel Statistics](_blank)
, ''République et canton de Neuchâtel - Recensement annuel de la population'' accessed 13 October 2011 Of the population in the municipality, 75 or about 40.8% were born in Montalchez and lived there in 2000. There were 43 or 23.4% who were born in the same canton, while 43 or 23.4% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 15 or 8.2% were born outside of Switzerland.[
, children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 21.2% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 60.3% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 18.5%.][
, there were 78 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 87 married individuals, 11 widows or widowers and 8 individuals who are divorced.][STAT-TAB Datenwürfel für Thema 40.3 - 2000]
accessed 2 February 2011
, there were 72 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.5 persons per household.[ There were 17 households that consist of only one person and 5 households with five or more people. , a total of 70 apartments (63.1% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 28 apartments (25.2%) were seasonally occupied and 13 apartments (11.7%) 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 21.4 new units per 1000 residents.[
The historical population is given in the following chart:]
Politics
In the 2007 federal election
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the most popular party was the SVP which received 29.15% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the LPS Party (18.39%), the SP (15.7%) and the FDP (13.23%). In the federal election, a total of 91 votes were cast, and the voter turnout
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was 54.5%.
Economy
, Montalchez had an unemployment rate of 2%. , there were 34 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 11 businesses involved in this sector. No one was employed in the secondary sector
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. 10 people were employed in the tertiary sector
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, with 6 businesses in this sector.[ There were 104 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 39.4% of the workforce.
the total number of ]full-time equivalent
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jobs was 35. The number of jobs in the primary sector was 26, all of which were in agriculture. There were no jobs in the secondary sector. The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 9, of which 6 were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 2 were in a hotel or restaurant and 1 was in the information industry.
, there were 71 workers who commuted away from the municipality.[Swiss Federal Statistical Office - Statweb]
accessed 24 June 2010 Of the working population, 5.8% used public transportation to get to work, and 67.3% used a private car.[
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Religion
From the , 18 or 9.8% were Roman Catholic
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, while 128 or 69.6% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church. Of the rest of the population, there were 24 individuals (or about 13.04% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. 20 (or about 10.87% of the population) belonged to no church, are agnostic or atheist, and 6 individuals (or about 3.26% of the population) did not answer the question.[
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Education
In Montalchez about 69 or (37.5%) of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education, and 14 or (7.6%) have completed additional higher education (either university
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or a '' Fachhochschule''). Of the 14 who completed tertiary schooling, 57.1% were Swiss men, 14.3% were Swiss women.[
In the canton of Neuchâtel most municipalities provide two years of non-mandatory ]kindergarten
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, followed by five years of mandatory primary education. The next four years of mandatory secondary education is provided at thirteen larger secondary schools, which many students travel out of their home municipality to attend. Both the kindergarten and the primary school are combined with Fresens
Fresens is a former municipality in the district of Boudry in the canton of Neuchâtel in Switzerland. On 1 January 2018 the former municipalities of Bevaix, Saint-Aubin-Sauges, Gorgier, Vaumarcus, Montalchez and Fresens merged into the n ...
. During the 2010-11 school year, there was one kindergarten class with a total of 23 students between the municipalities. In the same year, there was one primary class with a total of 16 students.Statistical Department of the Canton of Neuchâtel
Mémento de l'année scolaire 2010/2011 accessed 17 October 2011
, there were 20 students from Montalchez who attended schools outside the municipality.[
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References
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