Daillens 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 ...

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, located in the district of Gros-de-Vaud.

History

Daillens is first mentioned in 1109 as ''Dallens''.

Geography

Daillens has an area, , of . Of this area, or 65.0% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 19.9% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 14.3% is settled (buildings or roads), or 0.2% is either rivers or lakes.Swiss Federal Statistical Office-Land Use Statistics
2009 data accessed 25 March 2010. Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 2.7% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 4.2% and transportation infrastructure made up 5.3%. Power and water infrastructure as well as other special developed areas made up 2.0% of the area Out of the forested land, 17.4% of the total land area is heavily forested and 2.5% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 50.9% is used for growing crops and 13.2% is pastures. All the water in the municipality is flowing water. The municipality was part of the

Cossonay District Cossonay District was a district of the Canton of Vaud, Switzerland. The seat of the district was the town of Cossonay. It was dissolved on 31 August 2006.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 ''Azure, three Lozenges voided two and one Argent.''

Demographics

Daillens has a population () of . , 14.6% 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 47.3%. It has changed at a rate of 37.8% due to migration and at a rate of 9.7% due to births and deaths.
accessed 20 May 2011. Most of the population () speaks French (568 or 95.0%), with German being second most common (16 or 2.7%) and Italian being third (5 or 0.8%). Of the population in the municipality 166 or about 27.8% were born in Daillens and lived there in 2000. There were 246 or 41.1% who were born in the same canton, while 86 or 14.4% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 84 or 14.0% were born outside of Switzerland. In there were 6 live births to Swiss citizens and 1 birth to non-Swiss citizens, and in same time span there were 5 deaths of Swiss citizens. Ignoring immigration and emigration, the population of Swiss citizens increased by 1 while the foreign population increased by 1. There were 4 Swiss men and 2 Swiss women who emigrated from Switzerland. At the same time, there were 7 non-Swiss men and 1 non-Swiss woman who immigrated from another country to Switzerland. The total Swiss population change in 2008 (from all sources, including moves across municipal borders) was an increase of 23 and the non-Swiss population increased by 33 people. This represents a

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of 7.4%. The age distribution, , in Daillens is; 114 children or 13.5% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 94 teenagers or 11.1% are between 10 and 19. Of the adult population, 81 people or 9.6% of the population are between 20 and 29 years old. 159 people or 18.8% are between 30 and 39, 146 people or 17.3% are between 40 and 49, and 130 people or 15.4% are between 50 and 59. The senior population distribution is 66 people or 7.8% of the population are between 60 and 69 years old, 32 people or 3.8% are between 70 and 79, there are 20 people or 2.4% who are between 80 and 89, and there are 4 people or 0.5% who are 90 and older.Canton of Vaud Statistical Office
accessed 29 April 2011. , there were 251 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 310 married individuals, 16 widows or widowers and 21 individuals who are divorced.STAT-TAB Datenwürfel für Thema 40.3 – 2000
accessed 2 February 2011. , there were 233 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.5 persons per household. There were 51 households that consist of only one person and 16 households with five or more people. Out of a total of 241 households that answered this question, 21.2% were households made up of just one person and there were 2 adults who lived with their parents. Of the rest of the households, there are 70 married couples without children, 84 married couples with children There were 20 single parents with a child or children. There were 6 households that were made up of unrelated people and 8 households that were made up of some sort of institution or another collective housing. there were 91 single family homes (or 55.5% of the total) out of a total of 164 inhabited buildings. There were 26 multi-family buildings (15.9%), along with 40 multi-purpose buildings that were mostly used for housing (24.4%) and 7 other use buildings (commercial or industrial) that also had some housing (4.3%). Of the single family homes 27 were built before 1919, while 17 were built between 1990 and 2000. The most multi-family homes (13) were built before 1919 and the next most (5) were built between 1981 and 1990. There was 1 multi-family house built between 1996 and 2000.Swiss Federal Statistical Office STAT-TAB – Datenwürfel für Thema 09.2 – Gebäude und Wohnungen
accessed 28 January 2011. there were 245 apartments in the municipality. The most common apartment size was 4 rooms of which there were 78. There were 7 single room apartments and 93 apartments with five or more rooms. Of these apartments, a total of 212 apartments (86.5% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 27 apartments (11.0%) were seasonally occupied and 6 apartments (2.4%) were empty. , the construction rate of new housing units was 44.7 new units per 1000 residents. The vacancy rate for the municipality, , was 1.35%. The historical population is given in the following chart: Colors= id:lightgrey value:gray(0.9) id:darkgrey value:gray(0.8) ImageSize = width:1140 height:210 PlotArea = height:150 left:100 bottom:50 right:100 AlignBars = justify DateFormat = x.y Period = from:0 till:600 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:1453 from:start till:120 bar:1453 at:130 fontsize:S text: " 30 Hearths" shift:(8,5) bar:1764 from:start till:347 text:"347" bar:1798 from:start till:322 text:"322" bar:1850 from:start till:405 text:"405" bar:1860 from:start till:409 text:"409" bar:1870 from:start till:402 text:"402" bar:1880 from:start till:405 text:"405" bar:1888 from:start till:416 text:"416" bar:1900 from:start till:428 text:"428" bar:1910 from:start till:431 text:"431" bar:1920 from:start till:410 text:"410" bar:1930 from:start till:410 text:"410" bar:1941 from:start till:414 text:"414" bar:1950 from:start till:415 text:"415" bar:1960 from:start till:381 text:"381" bar:1970 from:start till:338 text:"338" bar:1980 from:start till:393 text:"393" bar:1990 from:start till:532 text:"532" bar:2000 from:start till:598 text:"598"

Heritage sites of national significance

The Clocher Du Temple is listed as a Swiss heritage site of national significance.

Politics

In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SVP which received 25.31% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the FDP (21.36%), the SP (19.27%) and the

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(16.73%). In the federal election, a total of 251 votes were cast, and the

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was 49.9%.

Economy

Daillens has a post office, a paper factory, a

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and several other trades. , Daillens had an unemployment rate of 3.6%. , there were 39 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 16 businesses involved in this sector. 48 people were employed in the

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and there were 9 businesses in this sector. 592 people were employed in the

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, with 28 businesses in this sector. There were 318 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 41.5% of the workforce. the total number of

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jobs was 625. The number of jobs in the primary sector was 25, all of which were in agriculture. The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 45 of which 41 or (91.1%) were in manufacturing and 4 (8.9%) were in construction. The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 555. In the tertiary sector; 44 or 7.9% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 493 or 88.8% were in the movement and storage of goods, 4 or 0.7% were in a hotel or restaurant, 1 was in the information industry, 2 or 0.4% were technical professionals or scientists, 5 or 0.9% were in education. , there were 694 workers who commuted into the municipality and 231 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net importer of workers, with about 3.0 workers entering the municipality for every one leaving.Swiss Federal Statistical Office – Statweb
accessed 24 June 2010. Of the working population, 7.9% used public transportation to get to work, and 67.9% used a private car.

Religion

From the , 161 or 26.9% were

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, while 348 or 58.2% belonged to the

Swiss Reformed Church The Protestant Church in Switzerland (PCS), (EKS); french: Église évangélique réformée de Suisse (EERS); it, Chiesa evangelica riformata in Svizzera (CERiS); rm, Baselgia evangelica refurmada da la Svizra (BRRS) formerly named Federation o ...

. Of the rest of the population, there were 3 members of an Orthodox church (or about 0.50% of the population), and there were 12 individuals (or about 2.01% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There was 1 individual who was

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ic. 66 (or about 11.04% of the population) belonged to no church, are agnostic or

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, and 13 individuals (or about 2.17% of the population) did not answer the question.

Education

In Daillens about 223 or (37.3%) of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education, and 95 or (15.9%) have completed additional higher education (either

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or a ''

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''). Of the 95 who completed tertiary schooling, 55.8% were Swiss men, 23.2% were Swiss women, 10.5% were non-Swiss men and 10.5% were non-Swiss women. In the 2009/2010 school year there were a total of 114 students in the Daillens 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 296 children of which 96 children (32.4%) received subsidized pre-school care. The canton's primary school program requires students to attend for four years. There were 69 students in the municipal primary school program. The obligatory lower secondary school program lasts for six years and there were 45 students in those schools.Canton of Vaud Statistical Office – Scol. obligatoire/filières de transition
accessed 2 May 2011. , there were 14 students in Daillens who came from another municipality, while 103 residents attended schools outside the municipality.

Notable people

François-Louis Cailler François-Louis Cailler (11 June 1796 – 6 April 1852) was a Swiss entrepreneur and early chocolatier who founded Cailler, the first modern brand of Swiss chocolate and the oldest still in existence, in 1819. Biography Cailler was born in Ve ...

(1796–1852), chocolatier and entrepreneur, had origins in Daillens *

Jean Villard Gilles Jean Villard, Pseudonym, known as Gilles (2 June 1895 in Montreux (Switzerland) – 26 March 1982 in Vevey), originating from Daillens, was a French Swiss multi-talented chansonnier, poet, humorist, comedian, actor, and cabaretist. He was ...

(1895–1982), singer, poet and entertainer, had origins in Daillens

References

External links

* {{Authority control Municipalities of the canton of Vaud