Vuissens (; frp, Vouéssens ) is a former

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in the district of Broye, in the canton of Fribourg, Switzerland. On 1 January 2017 the former municipalities of Vuissens, Bussy,

Estavayer-le-Lac Estavayer-le-Lac (;Florence Cattin/Andres Kristol, ''Estavayer-le-Lac FR (La Broye)'' in: ''Dictionnaire toponymique des communes suisses – Lexikon der schweizerischen Gemeindenamen – Dizionario toponomastico dei comuni svizzeri (DTS, LSG)'', ...

, Morens, Murist, Rueyres-les-Prés and Vernay merged into the new municipality of Estavayer.

Geography

Vuissens had an area, , of . Of this area, or 51.0% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 36.4% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 12.5% 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 0.9% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.0%. while parks, green belts and sports fields made up 9.4%. Out of the forested land, all of the forested land area is covered with heavy forests. Of the agricultural land, 44.6% is used for growing crops and 6.1% is pastures.

Coat of arms

The

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of the municipal

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is ''Gules, a Chevron raguly Or.''

Demographics

Vuissens had a population () of 245. , 10.5% 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 4%. Migration accounted for 5.2%, while births and deaths accounted for 2.3%.
accessed 16-November-2011 Most of the population () speaks French (159 or 93.0%) as their first language, Albanian is the second most common (6 or 3.5%) and

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is the third (4 or 2.3%). , the population was 52.3% male and 47.7% female. The population was made up of 79 Swiss men (45.4% of the population) and 12 (6.9%) non-Swiss men. There were 77 Swiss women (44.3%) and 6 (3.4%) non-Swiss women.Canton of Fribourg Statistics
accessed 3 November 2011 Of the population in the municipality, 78 or about 45.6% were born in Vuissens and lived there in 2000. There were 28 or 16.4% who were born in the same canton, while 51 or 29.8% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 12 or 7.0% were born outside of Switzerland. The age distribution, , in Vuissens is; 31 children or 18.1% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 19 teenagers or 11.1% are between 10 and 19. Of the adult population, 19 people or 11.1% of the population are between 20 and 29 years old. 25 people or 14.6% are between 30 and 39, 14 people or 8.2% are between 40 and 49, and 31 people or 18.1% are between 50 and 59. The senior population distribution is 15 people or 8.8% of the population are between 60 and 69 years old, 8 people or 4.7% are between 70 and 79, there are 9 people or 5.3% who are between 80 and 89. , there were 77 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 81 married individuals, 6 widows or widowers and 7 individuals who are divorced.STAT-TAB Datenwürfel für Thema 40.3 - 2000
accessed 2 February 2011 , there were 61 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.8 persons per household. There were 14 households that consist of only one person and 11 households with five or more people. , a total of 60 apartments (85.7% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 5 apartments (7.1%) were seasonally occupied and 5 apartments (7.1%) were empty.Swiss Federal Statistical Office STAT-TAB - Datenwürfel für Thema 09.2 - Gebäude und Wohnungen
accessed 28 January 2011 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:300 TimeAxis = orientation:vertical AlignBars = justify ScaleMajor = gridcolor:darkgrey increment:60 start:0 ScaleMinor = gridcolor:lightgrey increment:12 start:0 PlotData= color:yellowgreen width:40 mark:(line,white) align:center bar:1850 from:start till:284 text:"284" bar:1860 from:start till:231 text:"231" bar:1870 from:start till:243 text:"243" bar:1880 from:start till:262 text:"262" bar:1888 from:start till:251 text:"251" bar:1900 from:start till:247 text:"247" bar:1910 from:start till:274 text:"274" bar:1920 from:start till:292 text:"292" bar:1930 from:start till:252 text:"252" bar:1941 from:start till:284 text:"284" bar:1950 from:start till:276 text:"276" bar:1960 from:start till:217 text:"217" bar:1970 from:start till:165 text:"165" bar:1980 from:start till:142 text:"142" bar:1990 from:start till:157 text:"157" bar:2000 from:start till:171 text:"171"

Sights

The entire village of Vuissens is designated as part of the Inventory of Swiss Heritage Sites.

Politics

In the 2011 federal election the most popular party was the CVP which received 36.1% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SP (22.0%), the SVP (16.3%) and the FDP (15.2%).Canton of Fribourg National Council Election of 23 October 2011 Statistics
accessed 3 November 2011 The CVP received about the same percentage of the vote as they did in the

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(31.3% in 2007 vs 36.1% in 2011). The SPS moved from third in 2007 (with 20.2%) to second in 2011, the SVP moved from second in 2007 (with 24.3%) to third and the FDP retained about the same popularity (13.4% in 2007). A total of 63 votes were cast in this election.

Economy

, Vuissens had an unemployment rate of 2.1%. , there were 22 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 10 businesses involved in this sector. 2 people were employed in the

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and there was 1 business in this sector. 28 people were employed in the

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, with 5 businesses in this sector. There were 75 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 42.7% of the workforce. the total number of

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jobs was 43. The number of jobs in the primary sector was 17, all of which were in agriculture. The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 1, all of which were in construction. The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 25. In the tertiary sector; 4 or 16.0% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 9 or 36.0% were in a hotel or restaurant, . , there were 5 workers who commuted into the municipality and 54 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 10.8 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering.Swiss Federal Statistical Office - Statweb
accessed 24 June 2010 Of the working population, 4% used public transportation to get to work, and 72% used a private car.

Religion

From the , 109 or 63.7% were

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, while 35 or 20.5% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church. Of the rest of the population, there was 1 individual who belongs to another Christian church. There were 6 (or about 3.51% of the population) who were Islamic. 19 (or about 11.11% of the population) belonged to no church, are agnostic or atheist, and 1 individuals (or about 0.58% of the population) did not answer the question.

Education

In Vuissens about 53 or (31.0%) of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education, and 15 or (8.8%) have completed additional higher education (either

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or a '' Fachhochschule''). Of the 15 who completed tertiary schooling, 73.3% were Swiss men, 26.7% were Swiss women. The Canton of Fribourg school system provides one year of non-obligatory

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, followed by six years of Primary school. This is followed by three years of obligatory lower Secondary school where the students are separated according to ability and aptitude. Following the lower Secondary students may attend a three or four year optional upper Secondary school. The upper Secondary school is divided into gymnasium (university preparatory) and vocational programs. After they finish the upper Secondary program, students may choose to attend a Tertiary school or continue their

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.Chart of the education system in Canton Fribourg
During the 2010–11 school year, there were no students attending school in Vuissens, but a total of 28 students attended school in other municipalities. There were no kindergarten classes in the municipality, but 1 student attended kindergarten in a neighboring municipality. The municipality had no primary school classes, but 14 students attended primary school in a neighboring municipality. During the same year, there were no lower secondary classes in the municipality, but 10 students attended lower secondary school in a neighboring municipality. There were no upper Secondary classes or vocational classes. who attended classes in another municipality. The municipality had no non-university Tertiary classes, but there was one non-university Tertiary student and 2 specialized Tertiary students who attended classes in another municipality. , there were 10 students in Vuissens who came from another municipality, while 22 residents attended schools outside the municipality.

References

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