Saint-Livres 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 ' ...

in 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 ...

in Switzerland.

History

Saint-Livres is first mentioned in 1220 as ''apud Sanctum Liberium''.

Geography

Saint-Livres has an area, , of . Of this area, or 49.5% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 42.9% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 6.5% is settled (buildings or roads), or 0.6% is either rivers or lakes 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 2.1% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.3%. while parks, green belts and sports fields made up 1.2%. Out of the forested land, 41.4% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.5% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 35.0% is used for growing crops and 9.4% is pastures, while 5.2% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is flowing water. The municipality was part of the

Aubonne District Aubonne District was a former district of the Cantons of Switzerland, canton of Vaud in Switzerland. The seat of the district was the town of Aubonne, Switzerland, Aubonne until January 1, 2008. The municipalities are now part of the district of Mo ...

until it was dissolved on 31 August 2006, and Saint-Livres became part of the new district of Morges.Nomenklaturen – Amtliches Gemeindeverzeichnis der Schweiz
accessed 4 April 2011 The municipality is located on the Col du Marchairuz road.

Coat of arms

The

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of the municipal

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is ''Or, two Spruce Branches in saltire Vert fructed Gules.''

Demographics

Saint-Livres has a population () of . , 10.5% 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 (1999–2009 ) the population has changed at a rate of 15.6%. It has changed at a rate of 13.5% due to migration and at a rate of 2.2% due to births and deaths.
accessed 18-May-2011 Most of the population () speaks French (494 or 91.8%), with

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being second most common (19 or 3.5%) and

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being third (10 or 1.9%). There are 3 people who speak

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. Of the population in the municipality 193 or about 35.9% were born in Saint-Livres and lived there in 2000. There were 195 or 36.2% who were born in the same canton, while 87 or 16.2% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 57 or 10.6% were born outside of Switzerland. In there were 5 live births to Swiss citizens and were 7 deaths of Swiss citizens. Ignoring immigration and emigration, the population of Swiss citizens decreased by 2 while the foreign population remained the same. There was 1 Swiss man who emigrated from Switzerland. At the same time, there were 4 non-Swiss men and 2 non-Swiss women 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 11 and the non-Swiss population increased by 5 people. This represents a

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of 2.8%. The age distribution, , in Saint-Livres is; 72 children or 12.6% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 79 teenagers or 13.8% are between 10 and 19. Of the adult population, 58 people or 10.1% of the population are between 20 and 29 years old. 80 people or 14.0% are between 30 and 39, 114 people or 19.9% are between 40 and 49, and 58 people or 10.1% are between 50 and 59. The senior population distribution is 56 people or 9.8% of the population are between 60 and 69 years old, 43 people or 7.5% are between 70 and 79, there are 9 people or 1.6% who are between 80 and 89, and there are 3 people or 0.5% who are 90 and older.Canton of Vaud Statistical Office
accessed 29 April 2011 , there were 224 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 275 married individuals, 18 widows or widowers and 21 individuals who are divorced.STAT-TAB Datenwürfel für Thema 40.3 - 2000
accessed 2 February 2011 , there were 213 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.5 persons per household. There were 55 households that consist of only one person and 21 households with five or more people. Out of a total of 216 households that answered this question, 25.5% 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 71 married couples without children, 73 married couples with children There were 9 single parents with a child or children. There were 3 households that were made up of unrelated people and 3 households that were made up of some sort of institution or another collective housing. there were 80 single family homes (or 51.6% of the total) out of a total of 155 inhabited buildings. There were 29 multi-family buildings (18.7%), along with 40 multi-purpose buildings that were mostly used for housing (25.8%) and 6 other use buildings (commercial or industrial) that also had some housing (3.9%). Of the single family homes 31 were built before 1919, while 17 were built between 1990 and 2000. The most multi-family homes (20) were built before 1919 and the next most (3) were built between 1991 and 1995. There were 2 multi-family houses 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 227 apartments in the municipality. The most common apartment size was 4 rooms of which there were 65. There were 12 single room apartments and 65 apartments with five or more rooms. Of these apartments, a total of 205 apartments (90.3% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 15 apartments (6.6%) were seasonally occupied and 7 apartments (3.1%) were empty. , the construction rate of new housing units was 1.7 new units per 1000 residents. The vacancy rate for the municipality, , was 5.6%. 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:620 TimeAxis = orientation:vertical AlignBars = justify ScaleMajor = gridcolor:darkgrey increment:100 start:0 ScaleMinor = gridcolor:lightgrey increment:20 start:0 PlotData= color:yellowgreen width:40 mark:(line,white) align:center bar:1764 from:start till:508 text:"508" bar:1850 from:start till:615 text:"615" bar:1860 from:start till:573 text:"573" bar:1870 from:start till:581 text:"581" bar:1880 from:start till:562 text:"562" bar:1888 from:start till:527 text:"527" bar:1900 from:start till:486 text:"486" bar:1910 from:start till:434 text:"434" bar:1920 from:start till:464 text:"464" bar:1930 from:start till:431 text:"431" bar:1941 from:start till:400 text:"400" bar:1950 from:start till:414 text:"414" bar:1960 from:start till:383 text:"383" bar:1970 from:start till:371 text:"371" bar:1980 from:start till:354 text:"354" bar:1990 from:start till:429 text:"429" bar:2000 from:start till:538 text:"538"

Sights

The entire village of Saint-Livres is designated as part of the Inventory of Swiss Heritage Sites.

Politics

In the

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the most popular party was the SP which received 29.49% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SVP (28.05%), the

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(12.05%) and the LPS Party (11.27%). In the federal election, a total of 164 votes were cast, and the

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was 42.8%.

Economy

, Saint-Livres had an unemployment rate of 2.9%. , there were 46 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 17 businesses involved in this sector. 7 people were employed in the

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and there was 1 business in this sector. 25 people were employed in the

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, with 11 businesses in this sector. There were 283 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 45.2% of the workforce. the total number of

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jobs was 61. The number of jobs in the primary sector was 36, all of which were in agriculture. The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 6, all of which were in construction. The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 19. In the tertiary sector; 5 or 26.3% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 1 was in a hotel or restaurant, 7 or 36.8% were technical professionals or scientists, 4 or 21.1% were in education. , there were 15 workers who commuted into the municipality and 196 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 13.1 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering.Swiss Federal Statistical Office - Statweb
accessed 24 June 2010 Of the working population, 5.7% used public transportation to get to work, and 65% used a private car.

Religion

From the , 101 or 18.8% were

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, while 293 or 54.5% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church. Of the rest of the population, there were 6 members of an Orthodox church (or about 1.12% of the population), and there were 18 individuals (or about 3.35% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There were 6 (or about 1.12% of the population) who were Islamic. There were 2 individuals who were

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and 1 individual who belonged to another church. 103 (or about 19.14% of the population) belonged to no church, are agnostic or atheist, and 8 individuals (or about 1.49% of the population) did not answer the question.

Education

In Saint-Livres about 184 or (34.2%) of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education, and 76 or (14.1%) have completed additional higher education (either

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or a '' Fachhochschule''). Of the 76 who completed tertiary schooling, 50.0% were Swiss men, 32.9% were Swiss women, 7.9% were non-Swiss men and 9.2% were non-Swiss women. In the 2009/2010 school year there were a total of 74 students in the Saint-Livres 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 42 students in the municipal primary school program. The obligatory lower secondary school program lasts for six years and there were 31 students in those schools. There were also 1 students who were home schooled or attended another non-traditional school.Canton of Vaud Statistical Office - Scol. obligatoire/filières de transition
accessed 2 May 2011 , there were 8 students in Saint-Livres who came from another municipality, while 93 residents attended schools outside the municipality.

References

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