Vallorbe () is a
municipality
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in the district of
Jura-Nord Vaudois in the
canton
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Arts and ent ...
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
). 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 ...
.
History
Vallorbe is first mentioned in 1139 as ''de valle urbanensi''. In 1148 it was mentioned as ''de valle urbe''.
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Geography
Vallorbe has an area, , of . Of this area, or 22.1% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 66.7% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 9.4% is settled (buildings or roads), or 1.2% is either rivers or lakes and or 0.6% 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 3.5% and transportation infrastructure made up 4.3%. Out of the forested land, 64.6% of the total land area is heavily forested and 2.2% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 1.4% is used for growing crops and 16.6% is pastures and 3.9% is used for alpine pastures. Of the water in the municipality, 0.4% is in lakes and 0.8% is in rivers and streams.[
The municipality was part of the ]Orbe District Orbe District was a district of the canton of Vaud, Switzerland.
Mergers and name changes
* On 1 January 1970 the former municipalities of Envy and Romainmôtier merged to form the new municipality of Romainmôtier-Envy.
* On 1 September 2006 the ...
until it was dissolved on 31 August 2006, and Vallorbe became part of the new district of Jura-Nord Vaudois.[Nomenklaturen – Amtliches Gemeindeverzeichnis der Schweiz]
accessed 4 April 2011
The municipality is located on the Swiss-French
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border. It is surrounded on three sides with mountains and reaches from in elevation. On the east side, the valley opens up due to the Jougnenaz and Orbe
Orbe (; la, Urba; older german: Orbach, ; frp, Orba) is a municipality in the Swiss canton of Vaud. It was the seat of the former district of Orbe and is now part of the district of Jura-Nord Vaudois.
History
Orbe is first mentioned about ...
rivers. It includes the hamlets
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of Le Day, Le Creux and Bellevue.
Coat of arms
The blazon
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of the municipal coat of arms
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is ''Or, on a Bend wavy Azure a Trout proper bendwise.''
Demographics
Vallorbe has a population () of . , 23.1% 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 7.2%. It has changed at a rate of 10% due to migration and at a rate of -1.8% due to births and deaths.
accessed 07-August-2011
Most of the population () speaks French
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(2,776 or 85.5%), with Italian
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being second most common (114 or 3.5%) and Albanian
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being third (78 or 2.4%). There are 74 people who speak German
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and 3 people who speak Romansh.[
The age distribution, , in Vallorbe is; 327 children or 9.9% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 422 teenagers or 12.7% are between 10 and 19. Of the adult population, 418 people or 12.6% of the population are between 20 and 29 years old. 391 people or 11.8% are between 30 and 39, 481 people or 14.5% are between 40 and 49, and 460 people or 13.9% are between 50 and 59. The senior population distribution is 353 people or 10.7% of the population are between 60 and 69 years old, 262 people or 7.9% are between 70 and 79, there are 170 people or 5.1% who are between 80 and 89, and there are 27 people or 0.8% who are 90 and older.][Canton of Vaud Statistical Office]
accessed 29 April 2011
, there were 1,248 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 1,585 married individuals, 245 widows or widowers and 169 individuals who are divorced.[STAT-TAB Datenwürfel für Thema 40.3 - 2000]
accessed 2 February 2011
, there were 1,385 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.2 persons per household.[ There were 515 households that consist of only one person and 82 households with five or more people. Out of a total of 1,400 households that answered this question, 36.8% were households made up of just one person and there were 9 adults who lived with their parents. Of the rest of the households, there are 414 married couples without children, 372 married couples with children There were 61 single parents with a child or children. There were 14 households that were made up of unrelated people and 15 households that were made up of some sort of institution or another collective housing.][
there were 256 single family homes (or 40.2% of the total) out of a total of 637 inhabited buildings. There were 233 multi-family buildings (36.6%), along with 102 multi-purpose buildings that were mostly used for housing (16.0%) and 46 other use buildings (commercial or industrial) that also had some housing (7.2%).][Swiss Federal Statistical Office STAT-TAB - Datenwürfel für Thema 09.2 - Gebäude und Wohnungen]
accessed 28 January 2011 , a total of 1,363 apartments (84.6% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 126 apartments (7.8%) were seasonally occupied and 123 apartments (7.6%) were empty.[ , the construction rate of new housing units was 2.4 new units per 1000 residents.][ The vacancy rate for the municipality, , was 0.29%.][
The historical population is given in the following chart:]
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Heritage sites of national significance
Vallorbe international railway station is listed as a Swiss heritage site of national significance. The entire urban village of Vallorbe is part of the Inventory of Swiss Heritage Sites
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Sites of national importance
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Politics
In the 2007 federal election
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the most popular party was the SP which received 27.59% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SVP (25.93%), the FDP (13.57%) and the Green Party
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Greens believe that these issues are inherently related to one another as a foundation ...
(9.59%). In the federal election, a total of 745 votes were cast, and the voter turnout
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was 38.1%.
Economy
, Vallorbe had an unemployment rate of 7.7%. , there were 45 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 21 businesses involved in this sector. 713 people were employed in the secondary sector
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and there were 34 businesses in this sector. 702 people were employed in the tertiary sector
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, with 112 businesses in this sector.[ There were 1,432 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 44.1% of the workforce.
the total number of ]full-time equivalent
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jobs was 1,282. The number of jobs in the primary sector was 31, of which 24 were in agriculture, 6 were in forestry or lumber production and 1 was in fishing or fisheries. The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 682 of which 579 or (84.9%) were in manufacturing and 59 (8.7%) were in construction. The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 569. In the tertiary sector; 184 or 32.3% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 68 or 12.0% were in the movement and storage of goods, 50 or 8.8% were in a hotel or restaurant, 1 was in the information industry, 6 or 1.1% were the insurance or financial industry, 14 or 2.5% were technical professionals or scientists, 55 or 9.7% were in education and 53 or 9.3% were in health care.
, there were 1,285 workers who commuted into the municipality and 662 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net importer of workers, with about 1.9 workers entering the municipality for every one leaving. About 37.7% of the workforce coming into Vallorbe are coming from outside Switzerland, while 0.0% of the locals commute out of Switzerland for work.[Swiss Federal Statistical Office - Statweb]
accessed 24 June 2010 Of the working population, 11.7% used public transportation to get to work, and 57.1% used a private car.[
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Transportation
Vallorbe CFF is the first and last Swiss railway station served by the TGV Lyria
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railway line from Lausanne
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to Paris
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. Vallorbe is also served by Swiss Federal Railways
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' hourly running suburban train ''S2'' on the Simplon Railway
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to Lausanne and further to Palézieux
Palézieux () is a village and former municipality in the district of Lavaux-Oron in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. Since 2012 it forms part of the municipality of Oron.
History
Palézieux is first mentioned in 1134 as ''de Palaisol''.
Un ...
. CFF also runs hourly services on the Vallorbe–Le Brassus railway line
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into the Vallée de Joux
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to Le Brassus
Le Brassus is a village in the Vallée de Joux in the Canton of Vaud, Switzerland. It is part of the municipality Le Chenit.[Nyon
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at the Lake of Geneva
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. They are all part of the integrated mobilis Mobilis may refer to:
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(canton of Vaud) fare network.
Religion
From the , 1,130 or 34.8% were Roman Catholic
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, while 1,260 or 38.8% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church
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. Of the rest of the population, there were 34 members of an Orthodox church (or about 1.05% of the population), and there were 246 individuals (or about 7.58% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There was 1 individual who was Jewish
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, and 239 (or about 7.36% of the population) who were Islam
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ic. There were 9 individuals who were Buddhist
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, 1 person who was Hindu
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and 9 individuals who belonged to another church. 262 (or about 8.07% of the population) belonged to no church, are agnostic
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or atheist
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, and 177 individuals (or about 5.45% of the population) did not answer the question.[
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Education
In Vallorbe about 995 or (30.6%) of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education, and 182 or (5.6%) have completed additional higher education (either university
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or a ''Fachhochschule
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''). Of the 182 who completed tertiary schooling, 56.6% were Swiss men, 22.5% were Swiss women, 14.3% were non-Swiss men and 6.6% were non-Swiss women.[
In the 2009/2010 school year there were a total of 421 students in the Vallorbe 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 578 children of which 359 children (62.1%) received subsidized pre-school care. The canton's primary school
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program requires students to attend for four years. There were 215 students in the municipal primary school program. The obligatory lower secondary school program lasts for six years and there were 196 students in those schools. There were also 10 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 100 students in Vallorbe who came from another municipality, while 101 residents attended schools outside the municipality.[
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References
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