municipality
A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate.
The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...
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
). 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 ...
Sullens is first mentioned in 1180 as ''Sollens''.
Geography
Sullens has an area, , of . Of this area, or 71.4% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 12.8% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 16.3% 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 7.7% and transportation infrastructure made up 7.9%. Out of the forested land, all of the forested land area is covered with heavy forests. Of the agricultural land, 66.3% is used for growing crops and 4.3% is pastures.
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 on the road between
Cossonay
Cossonay is a municipality in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. It is part of the district of Morges.
History
Cossonay has both Roman ruins and medieval graves. The first documentation of the settlement dates from 1096 under the name ''Cochonia ...
.
Coat of arms
The
blazon
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of the municipal
coat of arms
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is ''Or, a Bend Azure, overall a Cross bottony Gules.''
Demographics
Sullens has a population () of . , 9.9% 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 6.4%. It has changed at a rate of 1.6% due to migration and at a rate of 5.1% due to births and deaths. accessed 25-May-2011
Most of the population () speaks French (709 or 87.2%), with
German
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* Germany (of or related to)
**Germania (historical use)
* Germans, citizens of Germany, people of German ancestry, or native speakers of the German language
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**Ger ...
being second most common (61 or 7.5%) and
Italian
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*** Regional Ita ...
being third (10 or 1.2%).
Of the population in the municipality 193 or about 23.7% were born in Sullens and lived there in 2000. There were 364 or 44.8% who were born in the same canton, while 139 or 17.1% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 112 or 13.8% were born outside of Switzerland.
In there were 3 live births to Swiss citizens and were 3 deaths of Swiss citizens. Ignoring immigration and emigration, the population of Swiss citizens remained the same while the foreign population remained the same. There were 3 Swiss men and 4 Swiss women who emigrated from Switzerland. At the same time, there were 4 non-Swiss men and 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 an increase of 4 and the non-Swiss population decreased by 6 people. This represents a
population growth rate
Population growth is the increase in the number of people in a population or dispersed group. Actual global human population growth amounts to around 83 million annually, or 1.1% per year. The global population has grown from 1 billion in 1800 to ...
of -0.2%.
The age distribution, , in Sullens is; 89 children or 10.3% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 118 teenagers or 13.7% are between 10 and 19. Of the adult population, 74 people or 8.6% of the population are between 20 and 29 years old. 99 people or 11.5% are between 30 and 39, 152 people or 17.7% are between 40 and 49, and 127 people or 14.8% are between 50 and 59. The senior population distribution is 111 people or 12.9% of the population are between 60 and 69 years old, 64 people or 7.4% are between 70 and 79, there are 21 people or 2.4% who are between 80 and 89, and there are 6 people or 0.7% who are 90 and older.Canton of Vaud Statistical Office accessed 29 April 2011
, there were 314 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 428 married individuals, 29 widows or widowers and 42 individuals who are divorced.STAT-TAB Datenwürfel für Thema 40.3 - 2000 accessed 2 February 2011
, there were 309 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.6 persons per household. There were 60 households that consist of only one person and 24 households with five or more people. Out of a total of 314 households that answered this question, 19.1% were households made up of just one person and there was 1 adult who lived with their parents. Of the rest of the households, there are 108 married couples without children, 125 married couples with children There were 11 single parents with a child or children. There were 4 households that were made up of unrelated people and 5 households that were made up of some sort of institution or another collective housing.
there were 163 single family homes (or 71.2% of the total) out of a total of 229 inhabited buildings. There were 44 multi-family buildings (19.2%), along with 16 multi-purpose buildings that were mostly used for housing (7.0%) and 6 other use buildings (commercial or industrial) that also had some housing (2.6%). Of the single family homes 23 were built before 1919, while 21 were built between 1990 and 2000. The greatest number of single family homes (79) were built between 1971 and 1980. The most multi-family homes (10) were built before 1919 and the next most (9) were built between 1971 and 1980. There were 4 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 315 apartments in the municipality. The most common apartment size was 4 rooms of which there were 110. There were 3 single room apartments and 132 apartments with five or more rooms. Of these apartments, a total of 300 apartments (95.2% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 12 apartments (3.8%) were seasonally occupied and 3 apartments (1.0%) were empty. , the construction rate of new housing units was 3.5 new units per 1000 residents. The vacancy rate for the municipality, , was 0%.
The historical population is given in the following chart:
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Politics
In the
2007 federal election
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the most popular party was the SVP which received 29.77% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the FDP (21.93%), the SP (15.03%) and the
Green Party
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Greens believe that these issues are inherently related to one another as a foundation ...
(11.84%). In the federal election, a total of 312 votes were cast, and the
voter turnout
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was 53.8%.
Economy
, Sullens had an unemployment rate of 3.2%. , there were 23 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 12 businesses involved in this sector. 14 people were employed in the
secondary sector
In macroeconomics, the secondary sector of the economy is an economic sector in the three-sector theory that describes the role of manufacturing. It encompasses industries that produce a finished, usable product or are involved in construction. ...
and there were 6 businesses in this sector. 35 people were employed in the
tertiary sector
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, with 16 businesses in this sector. There were 414 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 43.7% 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 employee, employed person (or student) in a way that makes workloads or class loads comparable across various contexts. FTE is often used to me ...
jobs was 56. The number of jobs in the primary sector was 14, of which 11 were in agriculture and 3 were in forestry or lumber production. The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 13, all of which were in construction. The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 29. In the tertiary sector; 3 or 10.3% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 3 or 10.3% were in the movement and storage of goods, 2 or 6.9% were in a hotel or restaurant, 5 or 17.2% were in the information industry, 4 or 13.8% were technical professionals or scientists, 4 or 13.8% were in education.
, there were 36 workers who commuted into the municipality and 327 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 9.1 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering.Swiss Federal Statistical Office - Statweb accessed 24 June 2010 Of the working population, 5.8% used public transportation to get to work, and 75.1% used a private car.
Religion
From the , 228 or 28.0% were
Roman Catholic
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, while 440 or 54.1% 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 were 4 members of an Orthodox church (or about 0.49% of the population), there were 2 individuals (or about 0.25% of the population) who belonged to the Christian Catholic Church, and there were 39 individuals (or about 4.80% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There was 1 individual who was
Jewish
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, and 5 (or about 0.62% of the population) who were
Islam
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ic. There were 3 individuals who were
Buddhist
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. 91 (or about 11.19% of the population) belonged to no church, are
agnostic
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or
atheist
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, and 15 individuals (or about 1.85% of the population) did not answer the question.
Education
In Sullens about 347 or (42.7%) of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education, and 143 or (17.6%) have completed additional higher education (either
university
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or a ''
Fachhochschule
A ''Fachhochschule'' (; plural ''Fachhochschulen''), abbreviated FH, is a university of applied sciences (UAS), in other words a German tertiary education institution that provides professional education in many applied sciences and applied arts ...
''). Of the 143 who completed tertiary schooling, 61.5% were Swiss men, 24.5% were Swiss women, 8.4% were non-Swiss men and 5.6% were non-Swiss women.
In the 2009/2010 school year there were a total of 112 students in the Sullens 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 296 children of which 96 children (32.4%) received subsidized pre-school care. The canton's
primary school
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program requires students to attend for four years. There were 51 students in the municipal primary school program. The obligatory lower secondary school program lasts for six years and there were 61 students in those schools.Canton of Vaud Statistical Office - Scol. obligatoire/filières de transition accessed 2 May 2011
, there were 32 students in Sullens who came from another municipality, while 93 residents attended schools outside the municipality.