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Val-d'Illiez is a
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in the district of
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in the canton of
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in
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.


Geography

Val-d'Illiez has an area, , of . Of this area, or 38.3% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 36.7% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 4.1% is settled (buildings or roads), or 0.5% is either rivers or lakes and or 20.3% 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 1.8% and transportation infrastructure made up 1.8%. Out of the forested land, 29.0% of the total land area is heavily forested and 2.0% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 0.0% is used for growing crops and 9.1% is pastures and 29.2% is used for alpine pastures. All the water in the municipality is flowing water. Of the unproductive areas, 6.7% is unproductive vegetation and 12.6% is too rocky for vegetation.


Coat of arms

The
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of the municipal
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is ''Azure, issuant from base mountains Argent, on them issuant from Coupeaux Vert two Houses Gules and three Pine trees Vert trunked proper, in chief a Cornucopia Or flowered Gules.'' The mountain is the
Dents du Midi The Dents du Midi (; French language, French: "teeth of midday") are a three-kilometre-long mountain range in the Chablais Alps in the canton of Valais, Switzerland. Overlooking the Val d'Illiez and the Rhône valley to the south, they face the L ...
peaks, which dominate the entire Val-d'Illiez.


Demographics

Val-d'Illiez has a population () of . , 12.6% 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 (2000–2010 ) the population has changed at a rate of 22.5%. It has changed at a rate of 15.4% due to migration and at a rate of 5.3% due to births and deaths.
accessed 21-September-2011
Most of the population () speaks
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(1,351 or 94.6%) as their first language,
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is the second most common (25 or 1.8%) and English is the third (15 or 1.1%). There are 9 people who speak
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and 1 person who speaks Romansh. , the population was 51.5% male and 48.5% female. The population was made up of 739 Swiss men (44.0% of the population) and 127 (7.6%) non-Swiss men. There were 725 Swiss women (43.1%) and 90 (5.4%) non-Swiss women.Ständige Wohnbevolkerung nach Geschlecht und Heimat am 31.12.2009.xls
accessed 24 August 2011
Of the population in the municipality, 764 or about 53.5% were born in Val-d'Illiez and lived there in 2000. There were 201 or 14.1% who were born in the same canton, while 219 or 15.3% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 207 or 14.5% were born outside of Switzerland. , children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 21.8% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 63.9% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 14.3%. , there were 607 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 697 married individuals, 73 widows or widowers and 51 individuals who are divorced.STAT-TAB Datenwürfel für Thema 40.3 - 2000
accessed 2 February 2011
, there were 554 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.4 persons per household. There were 167 households that consist of only one person and 31 households with five or more people. , a total of 520 apartments (36.6% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 813 apartments (57.3%) were seasonally occupied and 87 apartments (6.1%) were empty.Swiss Federal Statistical Office STAT-TAB - Datenwürfel für Thema 09.2 - Gebäude und Wohnungen
accessed 28 January 2011
, the construction rate of new housing units was 19 new units per 1000 residents. The vacancy rate for the municipality, , was 0.5%. 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:1500 TimeAxis = orientation:vertical AlignBars = justify ScaleMajor = gridcolor:darkgrey increment:300 start:0 ScaleMinor = gridcolor:lightgrey increment:60 start:0 PlotData= color:yellowgreen width:40 mark:(line,white) align:center bar:1850 from:start till:835 text:"835" bar:1860 from:start till:801 text:"801" bar:1870 from:start till:891 text:"891" bar:1880 from:start till:935 text:"935" bar:1888 from:start till:953 text:"953" bar:1900 from:start till:931 text:"931" bar:1910 from:start till:981 text:"981" bar:1920 from:start till:1023 text:"1,023" bar:1930 from:start till:1033 text:"1,033" bar:1941 from:start till:957 text:"957" bar:1950 from:start till:1007 text:"1,007" bar:1960 from:start till:884 text:"884" bar:1970 from:start till:937 text:"937" bar:1980 from:start till:1121 text:"1,121" bar:1990 from:start till:1306 text:"1,306" bar:2000 from:start till:1428 text:"1,428"


Heritage sites of national significance

The Maison D’Habitation is listed as a Swiss heritage site of national significance.


Twin Town

Val-d'Illiez is twinned with the town of St-Jean-des-Champas,
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.


Politics

In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the CVP which received 39.47% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SVP (32.77%), the FDP (15.55%) and the SP (6.82%). In the federal election, a total of 643 votes were cast, and the
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was 54.1%. In the 2009 Conseil d'Etat/Staatsrat election a total of 609 votes were cast, of which 30 or about 4.9% were invalid. The voter participation was 52.7%, which is similar to the cantonal average of 54.67%. In the 2007 Swiss Council of States election a total of 634 votes were cast, of which 48 or about 7.6% were invalid. The voter participation was 54.6%, which is much less than the cantonal average of 59.88%.


Economy

, Val-d'Illiez had an unemployment rate of 3%. , there were 102 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 51 businesses involved in this sector. 84 people were employed in the
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and there were 24 businesses in this sector. 229 people were employed in the
tertiary sector The tertiary sector of the economy, generally known as the service sector, is the third of the three economic sectors in the three-sector model (also known as the economic cycle). The others are the primary sector (raw materials) and the ...
, with 56 businesses in this sector. There were 776 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 39.7% of the workforce. the total number of
full-time equivalent Full-time equivalent (FTE), or whole time equivalent (WTE), is a unit of measurement that indicates the workload of an employed person (or student) in a way that makes workloads or class loads comparable across various contexts. FTE is often use ...
jobs was 333. The number of jobs in the primary sector was 62, of which 54 were in agriculture and 8 were in forestry or lumber production. The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 77 of which 14 or (18.2%) were in manufacturing and 63 (81.8%) were in construction. The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 194. In the tertiary sector; 19 or 9.8% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 48 or 24.7% were in the movement and storage of goods, 44 or 22.7% were in a hotel or restaurant, 5 or 2.6% were in the information industry, 9 or 4.6% were the insurance or financial industry, 12 or 6.2% were technical professionals or scientists, 8 or 4.1% were in education. , there were 58 workers who commuted into the municipality and 407 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 7.0 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering.Swiss Federal Statistical Office - Statweb
accessed 24 June 2010
Of the working population, 6.6% used public transportation to get to work, and 67.7% used a private car.


Religion

From the , 1,140 or 79.8% were
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, while 132 or 9.2% belonged to the
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. Of the rest of the population, there was 1 member of an Orthodox church, there were 2 individuals (or about 0.14% of the population) who belonged to the Christian Catholic Church, and there were 14 individuals (or about 0.98% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There were 6 (or about 0.42% of the population) who were
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ic. There were 4 individuals who belonged to another church. 79 (or about 5.53% of the population) belonged to no church, are
agnostic Agnosticism is the view or belief that the existence of God, the divine, or the supernatural is either unknowable in principle or unknown in fact. (page 56 in 1967 edition) It can also mean an apathy towards such religious belief and refer to ...
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 56 individuals (or about 3.92% of the population) did not answer the question.


Education

In Val-d'Illiez about 441 or (30.9%) of the population have completed non-mandatory
upper secondary education Secondary education is the education level following primary education and preceding tertiary education. Level 2 or ''lower secondary education'' (less commonly ''junior secondary education'') is considered the second and final phase of basic e ...
, and 158 or (11.1%) have completed additional higher education (either
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or a ''
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''). Of the 158 who completed tertiary schooling, 50.0% were Swiss men, 22.2% were Swiss women, 13.3% were non-Swiss men and 14.6% were non-Swiss women. , there were 5 students in Val-d'Illiez who came from another municipality, while 96 residents attended schools outside the municipality. Val-d'Illiez is home to the ''Bibliothèque communale et scolaire'' library. The library has () 3,100 books or other media, and loaned out 2,100 items in the same year. It was open a total of 130 days with average of 6 hours per week during that year.Swiss Federal Statistical Office, list of libraries
accessed 14 May 2010


References


External links


Official website
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