Treytorrens is a

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 ...

in the district of Broye-Vully 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 ...

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 ...

Geography

Treytorrens has an area, , of . Of this area, or 75.2% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 20.8% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 4.9% 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 1.6% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.9%. Out of the forested land, all of the forested land area is covered with heavy forests. Of the agricultural land, 59.6% is used for growing crops and 15.3% is pastures. The municipality was part of the

Payerne District Payerne District was a district of the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. Mergers and name changes * On 1 July 2006, Rossens and Sédeilles merged into the municipality of Villarzel. * On 1 September 2006 the municipalities of Cerniaz (VD), Champt ...

until it was dissolved on 31 August 2006, and Treytorrens became part of the new district of Broye-Vully.Nomenklaturen – Amtliches Gemeindeverzeichnis der Schweiz
accessed 4 April 2011

Coat of arms

The

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of the municipal

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is ''Gules, three Fishes nainaint Argent.''

Demographics

Treytorrens has a population () of . , 0.9% 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 0%. It has changed at a rate of -4.3% due to migration and at a rate of 3.5% due to births and deaths.
accessed 9 August 2011 Most of the population () speaks

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(97 or 95.1%), with

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being second most common (3 or 2.9%) and

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being third (1 or 1.0%). The age distribution of the population () is children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 18.6% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 61.8% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 19.6%. , there were 38 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 46 married individuals, 7 widows or widowers and 11 individuals who are divorced.STAT-TAB Datenwürfel für Thema 40.3 – 2000
accessed 2 February 2011 , there were 39 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.6 persons per household. There were 8 households that consist of only one person and 2 households with five or more people. Out of a total of 40 households that answered this question, 20.0% 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 9 married couples without children, 18 married couples with children There was one single parent with a child or 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 22 single family homes (or 55.0% of the total) out of a total of 40 inhabited buildings. There were 5 multi-family buildings (12.5%), along with 12 multi-purpose buildings that were mostly used for housing (30.0%) and 1 other use buildings (commercial or industrial) that also had some housing (2.5%).Swiss Federal Statistical Office STAT-TAB – Datenwürfel für Thema 09.2 – Gebäude und Wohnungen
accessed 28 January 2011 , a total of 38 apartments (77.6% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 7 apartments (14.3%) were seasonally occupied and 4 apartments (8.2%) were empty. , the construction rate of new housing units was 0 new units per 1000 residents. The vacancy rate for the municipality, , was 3.92%. The historical population is given in the following chart: Colors= id:lightgrey value:gray(0.9) id:darkgrey value:gray(0.8) ImageSize = width:960 height:210 PlotArea = height:150 left:100 bottom:50 right:100 AlignBars = justify DateFormat = x.y Period = from:0 till:210 TimeAxis = orientation:vertical AlignBars = justify ScaleMajor = gridcolor:darkgrey increment:40 start:0 ScaleMinor = gridcolor:lightgrey increment:8 start:0 PlotData= color:yellowgreen width:40 mark:(line,white) align:center bar:1850 from:start till:195 text:"195" bar:1860 from:start till:205 text:"205" bar:1870 from:start till:192 text:"192" bar:1880 from:start till:182 text:"182" bar:1888 from:start till:174 text:"174" bar:1900 from:start till:164 text:"164" bar:1910 from:start till:168 text:"168" bar:1920 from:start till:163 text:"163" bar:1930 from:start till:173 text:"173" bar:1941 from:start till:180 text:"180" bar:1950 from:start till:157 text:"157" bar:1960 from:start till:132 text:"132" bar:1970 from:start till:104 text:"104" bar:1980 from:start till:105 text:"105" bar:1990 from:start till:115 text:"115" bar:2000 from:start till:102 text:"102"

Heritage sites of national significance

The Swiss Reformed church of Saint-Jean-Baptiste is listed as a Swiss heritage site of national significance. The entire village of Treytorrens is part of the

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Politics

In the

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the most popular party was the SVP which received 48.66% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the FDP (20.13%), the PdA Party (7.52%) and the

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(6.24%). In the federal election, a total of 45 votes were cast, and the

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was 49.5%.

Economy

, Treytorrens had an unemployment rate of 0.8%. , there were 21 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 9 businesses involved in this sector. 4 people were employed in the

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and there was 1 business in this sector. No one was employed in the

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. There were 60 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 36.7% of the workforce. the total number of

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jobs was 19. The number of jobs in the primary sector was 15, all of which were in agriculture. The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 4, all of which were in construction.Swiss Federal Statistical Office STAT-TAB Betriebszählung: Arbeitsstätten nach Gemeinde und NOGA 2008 (Abschnitte), Sektoren 1-3
accessed 28 January 2011 , there were 3 workers who commuted into the municipality and 36 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 12.0 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering.Swiss Federal Statistical Office – Statweb
accessed 24 June 2010 Of the working population, 11.7% used public transportation to get to work, and 51.7% used a private car.

Religion

From the , 14 or 13.7% were

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, while 76 or 74.5% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church. Of the rest of the population, there were 3 individuals (or about 2.94% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. 8 (or about 7.84% of the population) belonged to no church, are

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, and 2 individuals (or about 1.96% of the population) did not answer the question.

Education

In Treytorrens about 38 or (37.3%) of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education, and 12 or (11.8%) have completed additional higher education (either

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or a ''

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''). Of the 12 who completed tertiary schooling, 66.7% were Swiss men, 25.0% were Swiss women. , there were 18 students in Treytorrens who came from another municipality, while 14 residents attended schools outside the municipality.

References

External links

Profile of the municipality
{{Authority control Cultural property of national significance in the canton of Vaud