Vugelles-La Mothe 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 Jura-Nord Vaudois of 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 ...

in Switzerland.

Geography

Vugelles-La Mothe has an area, , of . Of this area, or 30.9% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 64.2% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 4.2% is settled (buildings or roads), or 0.3% is either rivers or lakes and or 1.3% 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 1.3% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.3%. Out of the forested land, 60.6% of the total land area is heavily forested and 3.6% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 14.0% is used for growing crops and 14.3% is pastures, while 1.3% is used for orchards or vine crops and 1.3% is used for alpine pastures. All the water in the municipality is flowing water. The municipality was part of the

Yverdon District Yverdon District was a district of the canton of Vaud in Switzerland until 2006 when it was dissolved. It was divided into the Cercles of Molondin, Belmont-sur-Yverdon, Yverdon and Champvent. The district consisted of 38 municipalities, is 156 ...

until it was dissolved on 31 August 2006, and Vugelles-La Mothe became part of the new district of Jura-Nord Vaudois.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 ''Pally of Six Argent and Azure, overall an Owl proper standing on a semi Mining-weel Or.''

Demographics

Vugelles-La Mothe has a population () of . , 5.9% 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 5.5%. It has changed at a rate of 3.6% due to migration and at a rate of 0% due to births and deaths.
accessed 23-August-2011 Most of the population () speaks French (81 or 81.8%) as their first language,

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is the second most common (14 or 14.1%) and

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is the third (2 or 2.0%). The age distribution, , in Vugelles-La Mothe is; 19 children or 16.4% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 15 teenagers or 12.9% are between 10 and 19. Of the adult population, 13 people or 11.2% of the population are between 20 and 29 years old. 17 people or 14.7% are between 30 and 39, 17 people or 14.7% are between 40 and 49, and 15 people or 12.9% are between 50 and 59. The senior population distribution is 11 people or 9.5% of the population are between 60 and 69 years old, 5 people or 4.3% are between 70 and 79, there are 4 people or 3.4% who are between 80 and 89.Canton of Vaud Statistical Office
accessed 29 April 2011 , there were 37 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 48 married individuals, 8 widows or widowers and 6 individuals who are divorced.STAT-TAB Datenwürfel für Thema 40.3 - 2000
accessed 2 February 2011 , there were 38 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.6 persons per household. There were 7 households that consist of only one person and 4 households with five or more people. Out of a total of 38 households that answered this question, 18.4% were households made up of just one person. Of the rest of the households, there are 11 married couples without children, 15 married couples with children There were 5 single parents with a child or children. there were 17 single family homes (or 53.1% of the total) out of a total of 32 inhabited buildings. There were 2 multi-family buildings (6.3%), along with 7 multi-purpose buildings that were mostly used for housing (21.9%) and 6 other use buildings (commercial or industrial) that also had some housing (18.8%).Swiss Federal Statistical Office STAT-TAB - Datenwürfel für Thema 09.2 - Gebäude und Wohnungen
accessed 28 January 2011 , a total of 36 apartments (92.3% of the total) were permanently occupied and 3 apartments (7.7%) 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: 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:440 TimeAxis = orientation:vertical AlignBars = justify ScaleMajor = gridcolor:darkgrey increment:90 start:0 ScaleMinor = gridcolor:lightgrey increment:18 start:0 PlotData= color:yellowgreen width:40 mark:(line,white) align:center bar:1850 from:start till:436 text:"436" bar:1860 from:start till:267 text:"267" bar:1870 from:start till:267 text:"267" bar:1880 from:start till:349 text:"349" bar:1888 from:start till:341 text:"341" bar:1900 from:start till:349 text:"349" bar:1910 from:start till:201 text:"201" bar:1920 from:start till:225 text:"225" bar:1930 from:start till:194 text:"194" bar:1941 from:start till:168 text:"168" bar:1950 from:start till:165 text:"165" bar:1960 from:start till:108 text:"108" bar:1970 from:start till:98 text:"98" bar:1980 from:start till:136 text:"136" bar:1990 from:start till:106 text:"106" bar:2000 from:start till:99 text:"99"

Politics

In the

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the most popular party was the SVP which received 52.54% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SP (18.21%), the FDP (11.38%) and the

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(9.63%). In the federal election, a total of 33 votes were cast, and the

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was 44.6%.

Economy

, Vugelles-La Mothe had an unemployment rate of 6.6%. , there were 10 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 3 businesses involved in this sector. 5 people were employed in the

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and there were 2 businesses in this sector. 4 people were employed in the

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, with 1 business in this sector. There were 43 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 46.5% of the workforce. the total number of

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jobs was 15. The number of jobs in the primary sector was 7, all of which were in agriculture. The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 4 of which 3 or (75.0%) were in manufacturing The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 4, all in a hotel or restaurant. , there were 7 workers who commuted into the municipality and 25 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 3.6 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering.Swiss Federal Statistical Office - Statweb
accessed 24 June 2010 Of the working population, 7% used public transportation to get to work, and 51.2% used a private car.

Religion

From the , 10 or 10.1% were

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, while 70 or 70.7% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church. There were 2 individuals who were

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. 15 (or about 15.15% of the population) belonged to no church, are agnostic or atheist, and 2 individuals (or about 2.02% of the population) did not answer the question.

Education

In Vugelles-La Mothe about 29 or (29.3%) of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education, and 16 or (16.2%) have completed additional higher education (either

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or a '' Fachhochschule''). Of the 16 who completed tertiary schooling, 56.3% were Swiss men, 37.5% were Swiss women. In the 2009/2010 school year there were a total of 20 students in the Vugelles-La Mothe 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

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program requires students to attend for four years. There were 9 students in the municipal primary school program. The obligatory lower secondary school program lasts for six years and there were 9 students in those schools. There were also 2 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 22 students from Vugelles-La Mothe who attended schools outside the municipality.

References

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