Orny () is a

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in the district of

Morges Morges (; la, Morgiis, plural, probably ablative, else dative; frp, Môrges) is a municipality in the Swiss canton of Vaud and the seat of the district of Morges. It is located on Lake Geneva. History Morges is first mentioned in 1288 as ' ...

of 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 ...

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

Orny is first mentioned in 1011 as ''in Orne''.

Geography

Orny has an area, , of . Of this area, or 75.4% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 16.0% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 6.8% is settled (buildings or roads), or 0.5% is either rivers or lakes and or 0.4% 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 3.1% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.5%. Power and water infrastructure as well as other special developed areas made up 1.3% of the area Out of the forested land, 14.9% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.1% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 66.2% is used for growing crops and 8.3% is pastures. All the water in the municipality is flowing water. The municipality was part of the

Cossonay District Cossonay District was a district of the Canton of Vaud, Switzerland. The seat of the district was the town of Cossonay. It was dissolved on 31 August 2006.Nomenklaturen – Amtliches Gemeindeverzeichnis der Schweiz
accessed 4 April 2011 The municipality is located at the entrance of the Nozon valley into the

Orbe Orbe (; la, Urba; older german: Orbach, ; frp, Orba) is a municipality in the Swiss canton of Vaud. It was the seat of the former district of Orbe and is now part of the district of Jura-Nord Vaudois. History Orbe is first mentioned about ...

plains. It consists of the village of Orny and the settlement of Entreroches.

Coat of arms

The

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of the municipal

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is ''Pally of Six Argent and Azure, in Chief Gules two Mullets of Five Or, overall a Tower Or roofed and topped with a Cross.''

Demographics

Orny has a population () of . , 14.2% 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 20.4%. It has changed at a rate of 23% due to migration and at a rate of -3.6% due to births and deaths.
accessed 24-May-2011 Most of the population () speaks French (301 or 90.1%), with

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being second most common (13 or 3.9%) and

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being third (11 or 3.3%). There is 1 person who speaks

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. Of the population in the municipality 95 or about 28.4% were born in Orny and lived there in 2000. There were 136 or 40.7% who were born in the same canton, while 64 or 19.2% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 39 or 11.7% were born outside of Switzerland. In there were 2 live births to Swiss citizens and 4 births to non-Swiss citizens, and in same time span there were 10 deaths of Swiss citizens. Ignoring immigration and emigration, the population of Swiss citizens decreased by 8 while the foreign population increased by 4. There was 1 Swiss man who immigrated back to Switzerland. At the same time, there was 1 non-Swiss woman who immigrated from another country to Switzerland. The total Swiss population change in 2008 (from all sources, including moves across municipal borders) was a decrease of 3 and the non-Swiss population increased by 7 people. This represents a

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of 1.1%. The age distribution, , in Orny is; 57 children or 15.3% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 47 teenagers or 12.6% are between 10 and 19. Of the adult population, 38 people or 10.2% of the population are between 20 and 29 years old. 61 people or 16.4% are between 30 and 39, 68 people or 18.3% are between 40 and 49, and 41 people or 11.0% are between 50 and 59. The senior population distribution is 30 people or 8.1% of the population are between 60 and 69 years old, 19 people or 5.1% are between 70 and 79, there are 10 people or 2.7% 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 144 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 150 married individuals, 30 widows or widowers and 10 individuals who are divorced.STAT-TAB Datenwürfel für Thema 40.3 - 2000
accessed 2 February 2011 , there were 110 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.7 persons per household. There were 23 households that consist of only one person and 14 households with five or more people. Out of a total of 112 households that answered this question, 20.5% were households made up of just one person and there were 2 adults who lived with their parents. Of the rest of the households, there are 29 married couples without children, 49 married couples with children There were 5 single parents with a child or children. There were 2 households that were made up of unrelated people and 2 households that were made up of some sort of institution or another collective housing. there were 48 single family homes (or 60.0% of the total) out of a total of 80 inhabited buildings. There were 14 multi-family buildings (17.5%), along with 16 multi-purpose buildings that were mostly used for housing (20.0%) and 2 other use buildings (commercial or industrial) that also had some housing (2.5%). Of the single family homes 13 were built before 1919, while 18 were built between 1990 and 2000. The most multi-family homes (6) were built before 1919 and the next most (3) were built between 1981 and 1990. There was 1 multi-family house built between 1996 and 2000.Swiss Federal Statistical Office STAT-TAB - Datenwürfel für Thema 09.2 - Gebäude und Wohnungen
accessed 28 January 2011 there were 122 apartments in the municipality. The most common apartment size was 5 rooms of which there were 32. There were 9 single room apartments and 53 apartments with five or more rooms. Of these apartments, a total of 110 apartments (90.2% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 4 apartments (3.3%) were seasonally occupied and 8 apartments (6.6%) 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:1140 height:210 PlotArea = height:150 left:100 bottom:50 right:100 AlignBars = justify DateFormat = x.y Period = from:0 till:400 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:1453 from:start till:180 bar:1453 at:190 fontsize:S text: " 45 Hearths" shift:(8,5) bar:1764 from:start till:180 text:"180" bar:1798 from:start till:214 text:"214" bar:1850 from:start till:301 text:"301" bar:1860 from:start till:303 text:"303" bar:1870 from:start till:319 text:"319" bar:1880 from:start till:302 text:"302" bar:1888 from:start till:279 text:"279" bar:1900 from:start till:302 text:"302" bar:1910 from:start till:325 text:"325" bar:1920 from:start till:344 text:"344" bar:1930 from:start till:338 text:"338" bar:1941 from:start till:312 text:"312" bar:1950 from:start till:306 text:"306" bar:1960 from:start till:290 text:"290" bar:1970 from:start till:249 text:"249" bar:1980 from:start till:193 text:"193" bar:1990 from:start till:215 text:"215" bar:2000 from:start till:334 text:"334" bar:2010 from:start till:367 text:"367" bar:2016 from:start till:371 text:"371"

Sights

The entire village of Orny is designated as part of the

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Politics

In the

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the most popular party was the SVP which received 23.98% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the FDP (21.1%), the SP (13.62%) and the CVP (9.65%). In the federal election, a total of 89 votes were cast, and the

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was 38.2%.

Economy

, Orny had an unemployment rate of 5.4%. , there were 29 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 11 businesses involved in this sector. 9 people were employed in the

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and there were 2 businesses in this sector. 66 people were employed in the

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, with 8 businesses in this sector. There were 170 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 47.6% of the workforce. the total number of

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jobs was 77. The number of jobs in the primary sector was 22, all of which were in agriculture. The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 8, all of which were in construction. The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 47. In the tertiary sector; 14 or 29.8% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 1 was in a hotel or restaurant, 2 or 4.3% were technical professionals or scientists, 1 was in education and 27 or 57.4% were in health care. , there were 52 workers who commuted into the municipality and 118 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 2.3 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering. About 11.5% of the workforce coming into Orny are coming from outside Switzerland.Swiss Federal Statistical Office - Statweb
accessed 24 June 2010 Of the working population, 8.2% used public transportation to get to work, and 61.8% used a private car.

Religion

From the , 68 or 20.4% were

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, while 202 or 60.5% belonged to the

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. Of the rest of the population, there were 2 members of an Orthodox church (or about 0.60% of the population), and there were 14 individuals (or about 4.19% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There were5 (or about 1.50% of the population) who were

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ic. 49 (or about 14.67% of the population) belonged to no church, are

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, and 1 individuals (or about 0.30% of the population) did not answer the question.

Education

In Orny about 111 or (33.2%) of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education, and 42 or (12.6%) have completed additional higher education (either

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or a ''

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''). Of the 42 who completed tertiary schooling, 52.4% were Swiss men, 21.4% were Swiss women, 11.9% were non-Swiss men and 14.3% were non-Swiss women. In the 2009/2010 school year there were a total of 59 students in the Orny 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 631 children of which 203 children (32.2%) received subsidized pre-school care. The canton's

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program requires students to attend for four years. There were 36 students in the municipal primary school program. The obligatory lower secondary school program lasts for six years and there were 23 students in those schools.Canton of Vaud Statistical Office - Scol. obligatoire/filières de transition
accessed 2 May 2011 , there were 2 students in Orny who came from another municipality, while 53 residents attended schools outside the municipality.

References

External links

Official website
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