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 ...
, located 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 ' ...
. On 1 July 2021 the former municipalities of
Apples
An apple is an edible fruit produced by an apple tree (''Malus domestica''). Apple fruit tree, trees are agriculture, cultivated worldwide and are the most widely grown species in the genus ''Malus''. The tree originated in Central Asia, wh ...
Pampigny
Pampigny is a former municipality in the district of Morges in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. On 1 July 2021 the former municipalities of Apples, Cottens, Pampigny, Sévery, Bussy-Chardonney and Reverolle merged into the new municipality of ...
, Sévery,
Bussy-Chardonney
Bussy-Chardonney ( frp, Bussê-Chardenê) is a former municipality in the Swiss canton of Vaud, located in the district of Morges.
The municipality was created in 1961 by a merger of Bussy-sur-Morges and Chardonney-sur-Morges.< ...
and
Reverolle
Reverolle is a former municipality in the Swiss canton of Vaud, located in the district of Morges. On 1 July 2021 the former municipalities of Apples, Cottens, Pampigny, Sévery, Bussy-Chardonney and Reverolle merged into the new municipality ...
merged into the new municipality of
Hautemorges
Hautemorges is a municipality in the Swiss canton of Vaud, located in the district of Morges.
On 1 July 2021 the former municipalities of Apples, Cottens, Pampigny, Sévery, Bussy-Chardonney and Reverolle merged into the new municipality of Haut ...
.
History
Sévery is first mentioned in 979 as ''Siuiriaco''. In 1453 it was mentioned as ''Syuiriez''.
Geography
Sévery has an area, , of . Of this area, or 84.5% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 10.5% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 5.9% 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 3.4% and transportation infrastructure made up 1.3%. Out of the forested land, 7.1% of the total land area is heavily forested and 3.4% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 73.5% is used for growing crops and 10.5% is pastures.
The municipality was part of the
blazon
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of the municipal
coat of arms
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is ''Gules, a Cross bottony Argent, in Chief Argent three Escallops Sable.''
Demographics
Sévery has a population () of . , 7.0% 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 30.9%. It has changed at a rate of 29% due to migration and at a rate of 3.1% due to births and deaths. accessed 25-May-2011
Most of the population () speaks
French
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* Something of, from, or related to France
** French language, which originated in France, and its various dialects and accents
** French people, a nation and ethnic group identified with Franc ...
(179 or 92.7%), 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
** For citizens of Germany, see also German nationality law
**Ger ...
being second most common (7 or 3.6%) and
Portuguese
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* anything of, from, or related to the country and nation of Portugal
** Portuguese cuisine, traditional foods
** Portuguese language, a Romance language
*** Portuguese dialects, variants of the Portuguese language
** Portu ...
being third (3 or 1.6%). There are 2 people who speak
Italian
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* Anything of, from, or related to the people of Italy over the centuries
** Italians, an ethnic group or simply a citizen of the Italian Republic or Italian Kingdom
** Italian language, a Romance language
*** Regional Ita ...
.
Of the population in the municipality 47 or about 24.4% were born in Sévery and lived there in 2000. There were 96 or 49.7% who were born in the same canton, while 28 or 14.5% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 20 or 10.4% were born outside of Switzerland.
In there were 2 live births to Swiss citizens and there were 2 deaths of Swiss citizens. Ignoring immigration and emigration, the population of Swiss citizens remained the same while the foreign population remained the same. 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 an increase of 3 and the non-Swiss population increased by 4 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 3.4%.
The age distribution, , in Sévery is; 28 children or 13.2% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 27 teenagers or 12.7% are between 10 and 19. Of the adult population, 29 people or 13.7% of the population are between 20 and 29 years old. 30 people or 14.2% are between 30 and 39, 33 people or 15.6% are between 40 and 49, and 20 people or 9.4% are between 50 and 59. The senior population distribution is 27 people or 12.7% of the population are between 60 and 69 years old, 12 people or 5.7% are between 70 and 79, there are 6 people or 2.8% who are between 80 and 89.Canton of Vaud Statistical Office accessed 29 April 2011
, there were 74 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 102 married individuals, 10 widows or widowers and 7 individuals who are divorced.STAT-TAB Datenwürfel für Thema 40.3 - 2000 accessed 2 February 2011
, there were 81 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.4 persons per household. There were 23 households that consist of only one person and 4 households with five or more people. Out of a total of 82 households that answered this question, 28.0% were households made up of just one person. Of the rest of the households, there are 28 married couples without children, 28 married couples with children There were 2 households that were made up of unrelated people and 1 household that was made up of some sort of institution or another collective housing.
there were 28 single family homes (or 48.3% of the total) out of a total of 58 inhabited buildings. There were 4 multi-family buildings (6.9%), along with 20 multi-purpose buildings that were mostly used for housing (34.5%) and 6 other use buildings (commercial or industrial) that also had some housing (10.3%). Of the single family homes 15 were built before 1919, while 6 were built between 1990 and 2000. The greatest number of multi-family homes (1) were built before 1919 and again between 1961 and 1970Swiss Federal Statistical Office STAT-TAB - Datenwürfel für Thema 09.2 - Gebäude und Wohnungen accessed 28 January 2011
there were 81 apartments in the municipality. The most common apartment size was 3 rooms of which there were 24. There were 1 single room apartments and 25 apartments with five or more rooms. Of these apartments, a total of 79 apartments (97.5% of the total) were permanently occupied and 2 apartments (2.5%) 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:
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Politics
In the
2007 federal election
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the most popular party was the SVP which received 20.58% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the FDP (18.88%), the
Green Party
A green party is a formally organized political party based on the principles of green politics, such as social justice, environmentalism and nonviolence.
Greens believe that these issues are inherently related to one another as a foundation ...
(16.17%) and the SP (12.19%). In the federal election, a total of 69 votes were cast, and the
voter turnout
In political science, voter turnout is the participation rate (often defined as those who cast a ballot) of a given election. This can be the percentage of registered voters, eligible voters, or all voting-age people. According to Stanford Unive ...
was 46.6%.
Economy
, Sévery had an unemployment rate of 3.8%. , there were 26 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 8 businesses involved in this sector. 24 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 4 businesses in this sector. 24 people were employed in the
tertiary sector
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, with 8 businesses in this sector. There were 110 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 40.0% 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 64. The number of jobs in the primary sector was 23, of which 17 were in agriculture and 6 were in forestry or lumber production. The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 22 of which 12 or (54.5%) were in manufacturing and 10 (45.5%) were in construction. The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 19. In the tertiary sector; 7 or 36.8% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 2 or 10.5% were in a hotel or restaurant, 5 or 26.3% were technical professionals or scientists, 6 or 31.6% were in education.
, there were 19 workers who commuted into the municipality and 71 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 3.7 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering.Swiss Federal Statistical Office - Statweb accessed 24 June 2010 Of the working population, 1.8% used public transportation to get to work, and 60.9% used a private car.
Religion
From the , 33 or 17.1% were
Roman Catholic
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*Roman people, the people of ancient Rome
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, while 129 or 66.8% 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, there was 1 individual who belongs to the Christian Catholic Church, and there was 1 individual who belongs to another Christian church. There was 1 individual who was
Jewish
Jews ( he, יְהוּדִים, , ) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The ...
, and there was 1 individual who was
Islam
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ic. 19 (or about 9.84% of the population) belonged to no church, are
agnostic
Agnosticism is the view or belief that the existence of God, of the divine or the supernatural is unknown or unknowable. (page 56 in 1967 edition) Another definition provided is the view that "human reason is incapable of providing sufficient ...
or
atheist
Atheism, in the broadest sense, is an absence of belief in the existence of deities. Less broadly, atheism is a rejection of the belief that any deities exist. In an even narrower sense, atheism is specifically the position that there no ...
, and 7 individuals (or about 3.63% of the population) did not answer the question.
Education
In Sévery about 81 or (42.0%) of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education, and 26 or (13.5%) have completed additional higher education (either
university
A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. In the United States, t ...
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 26 who completed tertiary schooling, 61.5% were Swiss men, 30.8% were Swiss women.
In the 2009/2010 school year there were a total of 36 students in the Sévery 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
primary school
A primary school (in Ireland, the United Kingdom, Australia, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, and South Africa), junior school (in Australia), elementary school or grade school (in North America and the Philippines) is a school for primary e ...
program requires students to attend for four years. There were 14 students in the municipal primary school program. The obligatory lower secondary school program lasts for six years and there were 21 students in those schools. There was also 1 student who was home schooled or attended another non-traditional school.Canton of Vaud Statistical Office - Scol. obligatoire/filières de transition accessed 2 May 2011
, there were 18 students in Sévery who came from another municipality, while 28 residents attended schools outside the municipality.