Prévonloup is a
municipality in the district of
Broye-Vully in the
canton
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Arts and ent ...
of
Vaud in
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
Prévonloup is first mentioned in 1336 as ''Provalour''. In 1340 it was mentioned as ''Provonlou'' and in 1440 as ''Prévondloup''.
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Geography
Prévonloup has an area, , of . Of this area, or 79.3% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 12.0% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 7.6% 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 4.3% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.2%. Power and water infrastructure as well as other special developed areas made up 1.1% of the area Out of the forested land, 10.9% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.1% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 72.3% is used for growing crops and 6.0% is pastures, while 1.1% is used for orchards or vine crops.[
The municipality was part of the ]Moudon District Moudon was a district in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland. The seat of the district was the town of Moudon.
The district consisted of 32 municipalities and had an area of 119.61 km² with a population of 12273 inhabitants (End of 2003).
Merge ...
until it was dissolved on 31 August 2006, and Prévonloup became part of the new district of Broye-Vully.[Nomenklaturen – Amtliches Gemeindeverzeichnis der Schweiz]
accessed 4 April 2011
The municipality is located on the right bank of the Broye between Lucens
Lucens () is a municipality in the Broye-Vully district in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. In 2017 the former municipalities of Brenles, Chesalles-sur-Moudon, Cremin, Forel-sur-Lucens and Sarzens merged into the municipality of Lucens.
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and Romont (in the Canton of Fribourg
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).
Coat of arms
The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is ''Per bend Argent and Gules, overall two pyxes counterchanged.''
Demographics
Prévonloup has a population () of . , 7.9% 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 11.8%. It has changed at a rate of 8.7% due to migration and at a rate of 3.9% due to births and deaths.
accessed 12-May-2011French
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(104 or 91.2%), with German being second most common (9 or 7.9%) and Albanian
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being third (1 or 0.9%).[
Of the population in the municipality 41 or about 36.0% were born in Prévonloup and lived there in 2000. There were 37 or 32.5% who were born in the same canton, while 30 or 26.3% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 6 or 5.3% were born outside of Switzerland.][
In there were 2 live births to Swiss citizens and were 3 deaths of Swiss citizens. Ignoring immigration and emigration, the population of Swiss citizens decreased by 1 while the foreign population remained the same. There was 1 non-Swiss man who immigrated from another country to Switzerland. The total Swiss population change in 2008 (from all sources, including moves across municipal borders) was an increase of 6 and the non-Swiss population decreased by 1 people. This represents a population growth rate of 3.7%.][
The age distribution, , in Prévonloup is; 17 children or 12.0% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 22 teenagers or 15.5% are between 10 and 19. Of the adult population, 17 people or 12.0% of the population are between 20 and 29 years old. 17 people or 12.0% are between 30 and 39, 13 people or 9.2% are between 40 and 49, and 17 people or 12.0% are between 50 and 59. The senior population distribution is 17 people or 12.0% of the population are between 60 and 69 years old, 13 people or 9.2% are between 70 and 79, there are 9 people or 6.3% who are between 80 and 89.][Canton of Vaud Statistical Office]
accessed 29 April 2011
, there were 27 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 76 married individuals, 7 widows or widowers and 4 individuals who are divorced.[STAT-TAB Datenwürfel für Thema 40.3 - 2000]
accessed 2 February 2011
, there were 51 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.2 persons per household.[ There were 11 households that consist of only one person and 2 households with five or more people. Out of a total of 51 households that answered this question, 21.6% 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 27 married couples without children, 9 married couples with children There were 2 single parents with a child or children.][
there were 27 single family homes (or 58.7% of the total) out of a total of 46 inhabited buildings. There were 2 multi-family buildings (4.3%), along with 14 multi-purpose buildings that were mostly used for housing (30.4%) and 3 other use buildings (commercial or industrial) that also had some housing (6.5%). Of the single family homes 15 were built before 1919, while 1 was built between 1990 and 2000.][Swiss Federal Statistical Office STAT-TAB - Datenwürfel für Thema 09.2 - Gebäude und Wohnungen]
accessed 28 January 2011
there were 56 apartments in the municipality. The most common apartment size was 5 rooms of which there were 19. There were 1 single room apartments and 31 apartments with five or more rooms. Of these apartments, a total of 51 apartments (91.1% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 2 apartments (3.6%) were seasonally occupied and 3 apartments (5.4%) were empty.[ , the construction rate of new housing units was 21.1 new units per 1000 residents.][ The vacancy rate for the municipality, , was 0%.][
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 36.14% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the FDP (28.5%), the SP (12.56%) and the PdA Party (7.64%). In the federal election, a total of 44 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 46.3%.
Economy
, Prévonloup had an unemployment rate of 3.8%. , there were 14 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 5 businesses involved in this sector. 8 people were employed in the secondary sector and there were 3 businesses in this sector. 15 people were employed in the tertiary sector, with 6 businesses in this sector.[ There were 48 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 37.5% of the workforce.
the total number of full-time equivalent jobs was 26. The number of jobs in the primary sector was 9, all of which were in agriculture. The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 7, all of which were in manufacturing. The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 10. In the tertiary sector; 1 was in the sale or repair of motor vehicles, 2 or 20.0% were in the movement and storage of goods, 4 or 40.0% were in a hotel or restaurant.
, there were 27 workers who commuted away from the municipality.][Swiss Federal Statistical Office - Statweb]
accessed 24 June 2010 Of the working population, 8.3% used public transportation to get to work, and 54.2% used a private car.[
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Religion
From the , 22 or 19.3% were Roman Catholic, while 70 or 61.4% 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 was 1 member of an Orthodox church, and there were 8 individuals (or about 7.02% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There was 1 individual who was Islam
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ic. 12 (or about 10.53% of the population) belonged to no church, are agnostic
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or atheist
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Education
In Prévonloup about 41 or (36.0%) of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education
Secondary education or post-primary education covers two phases on the International Standard Classification of Education scale. Level 2 or lower secondary education (less commonly junior secondary education) is considered the second and final ph ...
, and 4 or (3.5%) have completed additional higher education (either university or a ''Fachhochschule
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''). Of the 4 who completed tertiary schooling, 50.0% were Swiss men, 50.0% were Swiss women.[
In the 2009/2010 school year there were a total of 24 students in the Prévonloup 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 155 children of which 83 children (53.5%) received subsidized pre-school care. The canton's primary school program requires students to attend for four years. There were 16 students in the municipal primary school program. The obligatory lower secondary school program lasts for six years and there were 8 students in those schools.[Canton of Vaud Statistical Office - Scol. obligatoire/filières de transition]
accessed 2 May 2011
, there were 15 students from Prévonloup who attended schools outside the municipality.[
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References
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