Vuisternens-devant-Romont (; frp, Vouéthèrnens-devant-Remont ) is a

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in the district of Glâne in the

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Fribourg , neighboring_municipalities= Düdingen, Givisiez, Granges-Paccot, Marly, Pierrafortscha, Sankt Ursen, Tafers, Villars-sur-Glâne , twintowns = Rueil-Malmaison (France) , website = www.ville-fribourg.ch , Location of , Location of () () o ...

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 ...

Geography

Vuisternens-devant-Romont has an area, , of . Of this area, or 78.5% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 15.1% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 6.1% is settled (buildings or roads), or 0.2% is either rivers or lakes and or 0.2% 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 3.3% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.3%. Out of the forested land, 12.8% of the total land area is heavily forested and 2.2% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 28.3% is used for growing crops and 49.6% is pastures. All the water in the municipality is flowing water.

Coat of arms

The

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of the municipal

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is ''Argent, a Bend Gules.''

Demographics

Vuisternens-devant-Romont has a population () of . , 4.3% 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 8.2%. Migration accounted for 2.4%, while births and deaths accounted for 4.6%.
accessed 17-November-2011 Most of the population () speaks

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(507 or 94.4%) as their first language,

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is the second most common (15 or 2.8%) and

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is the third (11 or 2.0%). , the population was 49.3% male and 50.7% female. The population was made up of 913 Swiss men (46.8% of the population) and 49 (2.5%) non-Swiss men. There were 934 Swiss women (47.8%) and 56 (2.9%) non-Swiss women.Canton of Fribourg Statistics
accessed 3 November 2011 Of the population in the municipality, 176 or about 32.8% were born in Vuisternens-devant-Romont and lived there in 2000. There were 225 or 41.9% who were born in the same canton, while 70 or 13.0% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 48 or 8.9% were born outside of Switzerland. , children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 29.8% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 56.3% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 13.9%. , there were 253 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 241 married individuals, 32 widows or widowers and 11 individuals who are divorced.STAT-TAB Datenwürfel für Thema 40.3 - 2000
accessed 2 February 2011 , there were 614 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.9 persons per household. There were 49 households that consist of only one person and 18 households with five or more people. , a total of 185 apartments (86.4% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 21 apartments (9.8%) were seasonally occupied and 8 apartments (3.7%) 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 6.7 new units per 1000 residents. 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:540 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:314 text:"314" bar:1860 from:start till:311 text:"311" bar:1870 from:start till:345 text:"345" bar:1880 from:start till:336 text:"336" bar:1888 from:start till:348 text:"348" bar:1900 from:start till:343 text:"343" bar:1910 from:start till:363 text:"363" bar:1920 from:start till:358 text:"358" bar:1930 from:start till:439 text:"439" bar:1941 from:start till:439 text:"439" bar:1950 from:start till:421 text:"421" bar:1960 from:start till:385 text:"385" bar:1970 from:start till:421 text:"421" bar:1980 from:start till:422 text:"422" bar:1990 from:start till:492 text:"492" bar:2000 from:start till:537 text:"537"

Heritage sites of national significance

The Farm House at Route De Villariaz 11 is listed as a Swiss heritage site of national significance.

Politics

In the 2011 federal election the most popular party was the SVP which received 34.9% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the CVP (23.5%), the SP (16.1%) and the FDP (12.8%).Canton of Fribourg National Council Election of 23 October 2011 Statistics
accessed 3 November 2011 The SVP gained an additional 5.1% of the vote from the

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(29.8% in 2007 vs 34.9% in 2011). The CVP retained about the same popularity (28.4% in 2007), the SPS retained about the same popularity (16.5% in 2007) and the FDP retained about the same popularity (15.5% in 2007). A total of 637 votes were cast in this election, of which 4 or 0.6% were invalid.

Economy

, Vuisternens-devant-Romont had an unemployment rate of 1.5%. , there were 218 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 95 businesses involved in this sector. 122 people were employed in the

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and there were 25 businesses in this sector. 187 people were employed in the

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, with 30 businesses in this sector. There were 277 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 44.8% of the workforce. the total number of

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jobs was 411. The number of jobs in the primary sector was 165, all of which were in agriculture. The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 109 of which 59 or (54.1%) were in manufacturing and 51 (46.8%) were in construction. The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 137. In the tertiary sector; 13 or 9.5% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 36 or 26.3% were in the movement and storage of goods, 13 or 9.5% were in a hotel or restaurant, 4 or 2.9% were the insurance or financial industry, 3 or 2.2% were technical professionals or scientists, 13 or 9.5% were in education and 41 or 29.9% were in health care. , there were 54 workers who commuted into the municipality and 201 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 3.7 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering.Swiss Federal Statistical Office - Statweb
accessed 24 June 2010 Of the working population, 5.8% used public transportation to get to work, and 64.5% used a private car.

Religion

From the , 480 or 89.4% were

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, while 8 or 1.5% belonged to the

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. Of the rest of the population, there were 20 individuals (or about 3.72% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There were 4 (or about 0.74% of the population) who were

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ic. 16 (or about 2.98% of the population) belonged to no church, are

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, and 19 individuals (or about 3.54% of the population) did not answer the question.

Education

In Vuisternens-devant-Romont about 164 or (30.5%) of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education, and 39 or (7.3%) have completed additional higher education (either

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or a ''

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''). Of the 39 who completed tertiary schooling, 48.7% were Swiss men, 28.2% were Swiss women, 12.8% were non-Swiss men. 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 a total of 204 students attending 11 classes in Vuisternens-devant-Romont. A total of 401 students from the municipality attended any school, either in the municipality or outside of it. There were 2 kindergarten classes with a total of 25 students in the municipality. The municipality had 9 primary classes and 179 students. During the same year, there were no lower secondary classes in the municipality, but 85 students attended lower secondary school in a neighboring municipality. There were no upper Secondary classes or vocational classes, but there were 28 upper Secondary students and 72 upper Secondary vocational students who attended classes in another municipality. The municipality had no non-university Tertiary classes, but there were 3 non-university Tertiary students and 8 specialized Tertiary students who attended classes in another municipality. , there were 44 students in Vuisternens-devant-Romont who came from another municipality, while 50 residents attended schools outside the municipality.

References

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