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Miège () is a former
municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality' ...
in the district of
Sierre Sierre (; ; ) is the capital municipality of the district of Sierre, located in the canton of Valais, Switzerland. It has a population of 18,020. Sierre is nicknamed City of the Sun () for its average of 300 days of sunshine a year. It is t ...
in the
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of
Valais Valais ( , ; ), more formally, the Canton of Valais or Wallis, is one of the cantons of Switzerland, 26 cantons forming the Switzerland, Swiss Confederation. It is composed of thirteen districts and its capital and largest city is Sion, Switzer ...
in
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. On 1 January 2021 the former municipalities of Miège,
Venthône Venthône is a former municipality in the district of Sierre in the canton of Valais in Switzerland. On 1 January 2021 the former municipalities of Miège, Venthône and Veyras merged to form the new municipality of Noble-Contrée. Geography Ve ...
and Veyras merged to form the new municipality of
Noble-Contrée Noble-Contrée () is a Municipalities of Switzerland, municipality in the district of Sierre (district), Sierre in the Cantons of Switzerland, canton of Valais in Switzerland. On 1 January 2021 the former municipalities of Miège, Venthône and Ve ...
.


History

Miège is first mentioned in 1226 as ''Mieio''. The municipality was formerly known by its German name ''Miesen'', however, that name is no longer used.


Geography

Miège had an area, , of . Of this area, or 44.7% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 36.8% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 17.0% is settled (buildings or roads), or 0.4% is either rivers or lakes and or 1.6% 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 6.7% and transportation infrastructure made up 8.3%. while parks, green belts and sports fields made up 1.6%. Out of the forested land, 34.0% of the total land area is heavily forested and 2.8% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 0.0% is used for growing crops and 4.3% is pastures, while 40.3% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is flowing water. The former municipality is located in the Sierre district, in the vineyards on the right bank of the Rhone. It is west of the Raspille river, which is the border with the German speaking Upper Valais. It consists of the ''haufendorf'' village (an irregular, unplanned and quite closely packed village, built around a central square) of Miège.


Coat of arms

The
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of the municipal
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is ''Gules, issuant from Coupeaux Vert a Garb Or between two vines of the second fructed of the third, in chief a Sun in Splendour of the last.''


Demographics

Miège had a population (as of 2019) of 1,376. , 12.7% 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 31.1%. It has changed at a rate of 20.9% due to migration and at a rate of 7.2% due to births and deaths.
accessed 23-September-2011
Most of the population () speaks
French French may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to France ** French language, which originated in France ** French people, a nation and ethnic group ** French cuisine, cooking traditions and practices Arts and media * The French (band), ...
(782 or 85.7%) as their first language,
German German(s) may refer to: * Germany, the country of the Germans and German things **Germania (Roman era) * Germans, citizens of Germany, people of German ancestry, or native speakers of the German language ** For citizenship in Germany, see also Ge ...
is the second most common (80 or 8.8%) and
Serbo-Croatian Serbo-Croatian ( / ), also known as Bosnian-Croatian-Montenegrin-Serbian (BCMS), is a South Slavic language and the primary language of Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro. It is a pluricentric language with four mutually i ...
is the third (14 or 1.5%). There are 11 people who speak
Italian Italian(s) may refer to: * Anything of, from, or related to the people of Italy over the centuries ** Italians, a Romance ethnic group related to or simply a citizen of the Italian Republic or Italian Kingdom ** Italian language, a Romance languag ...
. , the population was 46.1% male and 53.9% female. The population was made up of 472 Swiss men (39.4% of the population) and 80 (6.7%) non-Swiss men. There were 568 Swiss women (47.4%) and 78 (6.5%) non-Swiss women.Ständige Wohnbevolkerung nach Geschlecht und Heimat am 31.12.2009.xls
accessed 24 August 2011
Of the population in the municipality, 390 or about 42.7% were born in Miège and lived there in 2000. There were 282 or 30.9% who were born in the same canton, while 101 or 11.1% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 104 or 11.4% were born outside of Switzerland. , children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 25.5% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 59.9% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 14.6%. , there were 365 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 465 married individuals, 50 widows or widowers and 33 individuals who are divorced.STAT-TAB Datenwürfel für Thema 40.3 - 2000
accessed 2 February 2011
, there were 359 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.5 persons per household. There were 102 households that consist of only one person and 33 households with five or more people. , a total of 335 apartments (87.9% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 34 apartments (8.9%) were seasonally occupied and 12 apartments (3.1%) 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 3.3 new units per 1000 residents. The vacancy rate for the municipality, , was 1.39%. The historical population is given in the following chart: Colors= id:lightgrey value:gray(0.9) id:darkgrey value:gray(0.8) ImageSize = width:1020 height:210 PlotArea = height:150 left:100 bottom:50 right:100 AlignBars = justify DateFormat = x.y Period = from:0 till:920 TimeAxis = orientation:vertical AlignBars = justify ScaleMajor = gridcolor:darkgrey increment:200 start:0 ScaleMinor = gridcolor:lightgrey increment:40 start:0 PlotData= color:yellowgreen width:40 mark:(line,white) align:center bar:1798 from:start till:280 text:"280" bar:1850 from:start till:283 text:"283" bar:1860 from:start till:296 text:"296" bar:1870 from:start till:325 text:"325" bar:1880 from:start till:326 text:"326" bar:1888 from:start till:377 text:"377" bar:1900 from:start till:438 text:"438" bar:1910 from:start till:462 text:"462" bar:1920 from:start till:436 text:"436" bar:1930 from:start till:499 text:"499" bar:1941 from:start till:569 text:"569" bar:1950 from:start till:591 text:"591" bar:1960 from:start till:560 text:"560" bar:1970 from:start till:614 text:"614" bar:1980 from:start till:653 text:"653" bar:1990 from:start till:828 text:"828" bar:2000 from:start till:913 text:"913"


Politics

In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the CVP which received 37.08% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SP (18.44%), the FDP (17.7%) and the SVP (12.04%). In the federal election, a total of 457 votes were cast, and the
voter turnout In political science, voter turnout is the participation rate (often defined as those who cast a ballot) of a given election. This is typically either the percentage of Voter registration, registered voters, Suffrage, eligible voters, or all Voti ...
was 60.1%. In the 2009 Conseil d'État/Staatsrat election a total of 503 votes were cast, of which 33 or about 6.6% were invalid. The voter participation was 63.8%, which is much more than the cantonal average of 54.67%. In the 2007 Swiss Council of States election a total of 451 votes were cast, of which 26 or about 5.8% were invalid. The voter participation was 59.7%, which is similar to the cantonal average of 59.88%.


Economy

, Miège had an unemployment rate of 4.6%. , there were 85 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 51 businesses involved in this sector. 56 people were employed in the
secondary sector In macroeconomics, the secondary sector of the economy is an economic sector in the three-sector theory that describes the role of manufacturing. It encompasses industries that produce a finished, usable product or are involved in constructi ...
and there were 9 businesses in this sector. 72 people were employed in the
tertiary sector The tertiary sector of the economy, generally known as the service sector, is the third of the three economic sectors in the three-sector model (also known as the economic cycle). The others are the primary sector (raw materials) and the ...
, with 17 businesses in this sector. There were 432 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 42.6% of the workforce. the total number of
full-time equivalent Full-time equivalent (FTE), or whole time equivalent (WTE), is a unit of measurement that indicates the workload of an employed person (or student) in a way that makes workloads or class loads comparable across various contexts. FTE is often use ...
jobs was 137. The number of jobs in the primary sector was 40, all of which were in agriculture. The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 51 of which 10 or (19.6%) were in manufacturing and 40 (78.4%) were in construction. The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 46. In the tertiary sector; 14 or 30.4% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 2 or 4.3% were in the movement and storage of goods, 4 or 8.7% were the insurance or financial industry, 4 or 8.7% were technical professionals or scientists, 14 or 30.4% were in education and 1 was in health care.Swiss Federal Statistical Office STAT-TAB Betriebszählung: Arbeitsstätten nach Gemeinde und NOGA 2008 (Abschnitte), Sektoren 1-3
accessed 28 January 2011
, there were 31 workers who commuted into the municipality and 319 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 10.3 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering.Swiss Federal Statistical Office - Statweb
accessed 24 June 2010
Of the working population, 4.9% used public transportation to get to work, and 76.2% used a private car.


Religion

From the , 737 or 80.7% were
Roman Catholic The Catholic Church (), also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.27 to 1.41 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2025. It is among the world's oldest and largest international institut ...
, while 45 or 4.9% belonged to the
Swiss Reformed Church The Protestant Church in Switzerland (PCS), formerly named Federation of Swiss Protestant Churches until 31 December 2019, is a federation of 25 member churches – 24 cantonal churches and the Evangelical-Methodist Church of Switzerland. The P ...
. Of the rest of the population, there were 15 members of an Orthodox church (or about 1.64% of the population), and there were 50 individuals (or about 5.48% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There was 1 individual who was
Islam Islam is an Abrahamic religions, Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the Quran, and the teachings of Muhammad. Adherents of Islam are called Muslims, who are estimated to number Islam by country, 2 billion worldwide and are the world ...
ic. There was 1 person who was
Buddhist Buddhism, also known as Buddhadharma and Dharmavinaya, is an Indian religion and List of philosophies, philosophical tradition based on Pre-sectarian Buddhism, teachings attributed to the Buddha, a wandering teacher who lived in the 6th or ...
, 4 individuals who were
Hindu Hindus (; ; also known as Sanātanīs) are people who religiously adhere to Hinduism, also known by its endonym Sanātana Dharma. Jeffery D. Long (2007), A Vision for Hinduism, IB Tauris, , pp. 35–37 Historically, the term has also be ...
and 8 individuals who belonged to another church. 39 (or about 4.27% of the population) belonged to no church, are
agnostic Agnosticism is the view or belief that the existence of God, the divine, or the supernatural is either unknowable in principle or unknown in fact. (page 56 in 1967 edition) It can also mean an apathy towards such religious belief and refer to ...
or
atheist Atheism, in the broadest sense, is an absence of belief in the existence of deities. Less broadly, atheism is a rejection of the belief that any deities exist. In an even narrower sense, atheism is specifically the position that there no ...
, and 38 individuals (or about 4.16% of the population) did not answer the question.


Education

In Miège about 328 or (35.9%) of the population have completed non-mandatory
upper secondary education Secondary education is the education level following primary education and preceding tertiary education. Level 2 or ''lower secondary education'' (less commonly ''junior secondary education'') is considered the second and final phase of basic e ...
, and 105 or (11.5%) have completed additional higher education (either
university A university () is an educational institution, institution of tertiary education and research which awards academic degrees in several Discipline (academia), academic disciplines. ''University'' is derived from the Latin phrase , which roughly ...
or a ''
Fachhochschule A (; plural ), abbreviated FH, is a university of applied sciences (UAS), in other words a Hochschule, German tertiary education institution that provides professional education in many applied sciences and applied arts, such as engineering, te ...
''). Of the 105 who completed tertiary schooling, 58.1% were Swiss men, 26.7% were Swiss women, 6.7% were non-Swiss men and 8.6% were non-Swiss women. , there were 7 students in Miège who came from another municipality, while 76 residents attended schools outside the municipality.


References


External links


Official website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Miege Former municipalities of Valais