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Savigny () is a
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in
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in the
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of
Vaud Vaud ( ; , ), more formally Canton of Vaud, is one of the Cantons of Switzerland, 26 cantons forming the Switzerland, Swiss Confederation. It is composed of Subdivisions of the canton of Vaud, ten districts; its capital city is Lausanne. Its coat ...
, located in the district of Lavaux-Oron.


History

Savigny is first mentioned in 1224 as ''Savignie''. It was part of
Lutry Lutry () is a Municipalities of Switzerland, municipality in the Switzerland, Swiss Cantons of Switzerland, canton of Vaud, located in the Lavaux-Oron District, Lavaux-Oron, which includes the Lavaux region, a UNESCO World Heritage site. History ...
until 1823 when it separated to become an independent municipality.


Geography

Savigny has an area, , of . Of this area, is used for agricultural purposes, while is forested. Of the rest of the land, is settled (buildings or roads) and 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 7.6% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.9%. Power and water infrastructure as well as other special developed areas made up 1.2% of the area Out of the forested land, 28.2% of the total land area is heavily forested and 2.2% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 45.8% is used for growing crops and 9.8% is pastures, while 1.9% is used for orchards or vine crops. The municipality was part of the Lavaux District until it was dissolved on 31 August 2006, and Savigny became part of the new district of Lavaux-Oron.Nomenklaturen – Amtliches Gemeindeverzeichnis der Schweiz
accessed 4 April 2011
Savigny lies above sea-level, east from
Lausanne Lausanne ( , ; ; ) is the capital and largest List of towns in Switzerland, city of the Swiss French-speaking Cantons of Switzerland, canton of Vaud, in Switzerland. It is a hilly city situated on the shores of Lake Geneva, about halfway bet ...
the capital of its canton. The thinly distributed community stretches across the Swiss landscape and ends on the Jorat to the south east overlooking
Lake Geneva Lake Geneva is a deep lake on the north side of the Alps, shared between Switzerland and France. It is one of the List of largest lakes of Europe, largest lakes in Western Europe and the largest on the course of the Rhône. Sixty percent () ...
. The district encompasses an area that includes a part of the Molasse peaks in the Jorat. It consists of the
hamlets A hamlet is a human settlement that is smaller than a town or village. This is often simply an informal description of a smaller settlement or possibly a subdivision or satellite entity to a larger settlement. Sometimes a hamlet is defined f ...
of Mollie-Margot, La Goille, Le Martinet and La Claie-aux-Moines along with scattered settlements.


Coat of arms

The
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of the municipal
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is ''Per fess Gules and Argent, overall three Pine-trees Vert issuant from a Coupeaux Sable.''


Demographics

Savigny has a population () of . , 19.2% 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 10.8%. It has changed at a rate of 6.8% due to migration and at a rate of 4% due to births and deaths.
accessed 15 June 2011
Most of the population () speaks
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(2,667 or 86.5%), with
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being second most common (232 or 7.5%) and
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being third (48 or 1.6%). There are thirty people who speak
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and two people who speak Romansh. Of the population in the municipality 643 or about 20.8% were born in Savigny and lived there in 2000. There were 1,139 or 36.9% who were born in the same canton, while 588 or 19.1% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 627 or 20.3% were born outside of Switzerland. In there were thirty-four live births to Swiss citizens and two births to non-Swiss citizens, and in same time span there were sixteen deaths of Swiss citizens and two non-Swiss citizen deaths. Ignoring immigration and emigration, the population of Swiss citizens increased by eighteen while the foreign population remained the same. There were two Swiss men and one Swiss woman who immigrated back to Switzerland. At the same time, there were thirty-three non-Swiss men and thirty-six non-Swiss women who immigrated from another country to Switzerland. The total Swiss population change in 2008 (from all sources, including moves across municipal borders) was a decrease of twenty-nine and the non-Swiss population increased by sixty-six people. This represents a
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of 1.1%. The age distribution, , in Savigny is; 360 children or 10.7% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 410 teenagers or 12.2% are between 10 and 19. Of the adult population, 370 people or 11.0% of the population are between 20 and 29 years old. 427 people or 12.7% are between 30 and 39, 552 people or 16.4% are between 40 and 49, and 508 people or 15.1% are between 50 and 59. The senior population distribution is 389 people or 11.6% of the population are between 60 and 69 years old, 219 people or 6.5% are between 70 and 79, there are 115 people or 3.4% who are between 80 and 89, and there are 15 people or 0.4% who are 90 and older.Canton of Vaud Statistical Office
accessed 29 April 2011
, there were 1,309 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 1,496 married individuals, 127 widows or widowers and 152 individuals who are divorced.STAT-TAB Datenwürfel für Thema 40.3 - 2000
accessed 2 February 2011
, there were 1,290 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.3 persons per household. There were 426 households that consist of only one person and 79 households with five or more people. Out of a total of 1,336 households that answered this question, 31.9% were households made up of just one person and there were 10 adults who lived with their parents. Of the rest of the households, there are 351 married couples without children, 412 married couples with children There were 66 single parents with a child or children. There were 25 households that were made up of unrelated people and 46 households that were made up of some sort of institution or another collective housing. there were 504 single family homes (or 63.8% of the total) out of a total of 790 inhabited buildings. There were 123 multi-family buildings (15.6%), along with 121 multi-purpose buildings that were mostly used for housing (15.3%) and 42 other use buildings (commercial or industrial) that also had some housing (5.3%). Of the single family homes 46 were built before 1919, while 45 were built between 1990 and 2000. The greatest number of single family homes (156) were built between 1971 and 1980. The most multi-family homes (33) were built between 1971 and 1980 and the next most (24) were built before 1919. There were 3 multi-family houses 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 1,302 apartments in the municipality. The most common apartment size was 3 rooms of which there were 329. There were 62 single room apartments and 469 apartments with five or more rooms. Of these apartments, a total of 1,135 apartments (87.2% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 141 apartments (10.8%) were seasonally occupied and 26 apartments (2.0%) were empty. , the construction rate of new housing units was 3.6 new units per 1000 residents. The vacancy rate for the municipality, , was 0.14%. 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:3100 TimeAxis = orientation:vertical AlignBars = justify ScaleMajor = gridcolor:darkgrey increment:600 start:0 ScaleMinor = gridcolor:lightgrey increment:120 start:0 PlotData= color:yellowgreen width:40 mark:(line,white) align:center bar:1550 from:start till:179 text:"179" bar:1764 from:start till:507 text:"507" bar:1821 from:start till:925 text:"925" bar:1850 from:start till:1042 text:"1,042" bar:1860 from:start till:994 text:"994" bar:1870 from:start till:1129 text:"1,129" bar:1880 from:start till:1141 text:"1,141" bar:1888 from:start till:1113 text:"1,113" bar:1900 from:start till:1072 text:"1,072" bar:1910 from:start till:1088 text:"1,088" bar:1920 from:start till:1031 text:"1,031" bar:1930 from:start till:978 text:"978" bar:1941 from:start till:925 text:"925" bar:1950 from:start till:980 text:"980" bar:1960 from:start till:884 text:"884" bar:1970 from:start till:1508 text:"1,508" bar:1980 from:start till:2339 text:"2,339" bar:1990 from:start till:2970 text:"2,970" bar:2000 from:start till:3084 text:"3,084"


Politics

In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SVP which received 19.39% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SP (19.17%), the FDP (18.41%) and the
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(15.25%). In the federal election, a total of 1,029 votes were cast, and the
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was 49.0%.


Economy

, Savigny had an unemployment rate of 3.5%. , there were 98 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 44 businesses involved in this sector. 220 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 20 businesses in this sector. 695 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 81 businesses in this sector. There were 1,629 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 44.0% 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 836. The number of jobs in the primary sector was 71, of which 61 were in agriculture and 10 were in forestry or lumber production. The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 212 of which 7 or (3.3%) were in manufacturing, 17 or (8.0%) were in mining and 185 (87.3%) were in construction. The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 553. In the tertiary sector; 70 or 12.7% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 83 or 15.0% were in the movement and storage of goods, 26 or 4.7% were in a hotel or restaurant, 2 or 0.4% were in the information industry, 6 or 1.1% were the insurance or financial industry, 30 or 5.4% were technical professionals or scientists, 50 or 9.0% were in education and 181 or 32.7% were in health care. , there were 381 workers who commuted into the municipality and 1,183 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 3.1 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering. About 2.9% of the workforce coming into Savigny are coming from outside Switzerland.Swiss Federal Statistical Office - Statweb
accessed 24 June 2010
Of the working population, 12.5% used public transportation to get to work, and 67.6% used a private car.


Religion

From the , 836 or 27.1% were
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, while 1,462 or 47.4% 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 29 members of an Orthodox church (or about 0.94% of the population), and there were 117 individuals (or about 3.79% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There were 10 individuals (or about 0.32% of the population) who were
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, and 41 (or about 1.33% of the population) who were
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ic. There were 3 individuals who were
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, 8 individuals who were
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and 2 individuals who belonged to another church. 507 (or about 16.44% of the population) belonged to no church, are
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or
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, and 118 individuals (or about 3.83% of the population) did not answer the question.


Education

In Savigny about 1,070 or (34.7%) 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 596 or (19.3%) have completed additional higher education (either
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or a ''
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''). Of the 596 who completed tertiary schooling, 46.3% were Swiss men, 31.5% were Swiss women, 12.6% were non-Swiss men and 9.6% were non-Swiss women. In the 2009/2010 school year there were a total of 381 students in the Savigny 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 665 children of which 232 children (34.9%) received subsidized pre-school care. The canton's
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program requires students to attend for four years. There were 214 students in the municipal primary school program. The obligatory lower secondary school program lasts for six years and there were 165 students in those schools. There were also 2 students who were home schooled or attended another non-traditional school.Canton of Vaud Statistical Office - Scol. obligatoire/filières de transition
accessed 2 May 2011
, there were 71 students in Savigny who came from another municipality, while 269 residents attended schools outside the municipality.


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