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Vufflens-le-Château is a municipality in the
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of Vaud, located in the district of Morges.


Geography

Vufflens-le-Château has an area, , of . Of this area, or 69.6% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 13.1% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 18.7% 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 15.9% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.3%. Out of the forested land, 9.8% of the total land area is heavily forested and 3.3% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 47.2% is used for growing crops and 3.7% is pastures, while 18.7% is used for orchards or vine crops. The municipality was part of the
Morges District Morges District is a district in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. The seat of the district is the city of Morges. Geography Morges has an area, , of . Of this area, or 55.1% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 33.9% is forested. O ...
until it was dissolved on 31 August 2006, and Vufflens-le-Château became part of the new district of Morges.Nomenklaturen – Amtliches Gemeindeverzeichnis der Schweiz
accessed 4 April 2011


Coat of arms

The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is ''Pally of Six Or and Azure, overall a Bar of the first.''


Demographics

Vufflens-le-Château has a population () of . , 16.8% 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 25.1%.
accessed 13-July-2011
Most of the population () speaks
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(535 or 84.8%), with
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being second most common (42 or 6.7%) and English being third (25 or 4.0%). Of the population in the municipality 110 or about 17.4% were born in Vufflens-le-Château and lived there in 2000. There were 263 or 41.7% who were born in the same canton, while 107 or 17.0% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 141 or 22.3% were born outside of Switzerland.STAT-TAB Datenwürfel für Thema 40.3 - 2000
accessed 2 February 2011
The age distribution, , in Vufflens-le-Château is; 103 children or 13.5% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 119 teenagers or 15.6% are between 10 and 19. Of the adult population, 61 people or 8.0% of the population are between 20 and 29 years old. 100 people or 13.1% are between 30 and 39, 134 people or 17.5% are between 40 and 49, and 108 people or 14.1% are between 50 and 59. The senior population distribution is 79 people or 10.3% of the population are between 60 and 69 years old, 47 people or 6.1% are between 70 and 79, there are 13 people or 1.7% who are between 80 and 89, and there is 1 person who is 90 and older.Canton of Vaud Statistical Office
accessed 29 April 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:640 TimeAxis = orientation:vertical AlignBars = justify ScaleMajor = gridcolor:darkgrey increment:100 start:0 ScaleMinor = gridcolor:lightgrey increment:20 start:0 PlotData= color:yellowgreen width:40 mark:(line,white) align:center bar:1850 from:start till:247 text:"247" bar:1860 from:start till:278 text:"278" bar:1870 from:start till:265 text:"265" bar:1880 from:start till:279 text:"279" bar:1888 from:start till:282 text:"282" bar:1900 from:start till:242 text:"242" bar:1910 from:start till:225 text:"225" bar:1920 from:start till:232 text:"232" bar:1930 from:start till:199 text:"199" bar:1941 from:start till:195 text:"195" bar:1950 from:start till:219 text:"219" bar:1960 from:start till:182 text:"182" bar:1970 from:start till:233 text:"233" bar:1980 from:start till:421 text:"421" bar:1990 from:start till:528 text:"528" bar:2000 from:start till:631 text:"631"


Heritage sites of national significance

Vufflens Castle Vufflens Castle (french: Château de Vufflens) is a medieval castle in the Switzerland, Swiss municipalities of Switzerland, municipality of Vufflens-le-Château in the canton of Vaud. It is a Swiss Swiss inventory of cultural property of natio ...
is listed as a Swiss heritage site of national significance. The entire area around Vufflens-le-Château is part of the
Inventory of Swiss Heritage Sites The Federal Inventory of Heritage Sites (ISOS) is part of a 1981 Ordinance of the Swiss Federal Council implementing the Federal Law on the Protection of Nature and Cultural Heritage. Sites of national importance Types The types are based on t ...
.


Politics

In the
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the most popular party was the SVP which received 21.62% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the FDP (17.89%), the SP (16.45%) and the
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(15.05%). In the federal election, a total of 253 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 55.5%.


Economy

, Vufflens-le-Château had an unemployment rate of 3%. , there were 32 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 6 businesses involved in this sector. 12 people were employed in the secondary sector and there were 5 businesses in this sector. 58 people were employed in the tertiary sector, with 15 businesses in this sector. There were 320 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 41.9% of the workforce. the total number of full-time equivalent jobs was 77. 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 12, all of which were in construction. The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 50. In the tertiary sector; 1 was in the sale or repair of motor vehicles, 12 or 24.0% were in a hotel or restaurant, 8 or 16.0% were in the information industry, 6 or 12.0% were technical professionals or scientists, 8 or 16.0% were in education. , there were 54 workers who commuted into the municipality and 259 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 4.8 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering.Swiss Federal Statistical Office - Statweb
accessed 24 June 2010
Of the working population, 20.3% used public transportation to get to work, and 61.9% used a private car. The municipality is served by a station on the Bière–Apples–Morges railway.


Religion

From the , 166 or 26.3% were Roman Catholic, while 336 or 53.2% belonged to the
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. Of the rest of the population, there was 1 member of an Orthodox church, and there were 29 individuals (or about 4.60% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There were 5 individuals (or about 0.79% of the population) who were Jewish, and 89 (or about 14.10% of the population) belonged to no church, are
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or
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, and 17 individuals (or about 2.69% of the population) did not answer the question.


Education

In Vufflens-le-Château about 202 or (32.0%) of the population have completed non-mandatory
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, and 174 or (27.6%) have completed additional higher education (either university or a ''
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''). In the 2009/2010 school year there were a total of 118 students in the Vufflens-le-Château school district. In the Vaud cantonal school system, two years of non-obligatory pre-school are provided by the political districts. During the school year, the political district provided pre-school care for a total of 631 children of which 203 children (32.2%) received subsidized pre-school care. The canton's primary school program requires students to attend for four years. There were 65 students in the municipal primary school program. The obligatory lower secondary school program lasts for six years and there were 53 students in those schools.Canton of Vaud Statistical Office - Scol. obligatoire/filières de transition
accessed 2 May 2011


Notable residents

Ferdinand de Saussure Ferdinand de Saussure (; ; 26 November 1857 – 22 February 1913) was a Swiss linguist, semiotician and philosopher. His ideas laid a foundation for many significant developments in both linguistics and semiotics in the 20th century. He is widel ...
, Michael Schumacher, and Mick Schumacher lived in Vufflens-le-Château.Motorsport.com
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References

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