Vouvry () is a

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in the district of

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in the canton of

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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 ...

History

Vouvry is first mentioned in 1018 as ''Vobreium'' and ''Wovregium''.

Geography

Vouvry has an area, , of . Of this area, or 36.2% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 38.4% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 5.9% is settled (buildings or roads), or 1.3% is either rivers or lakes and or 18.1% 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 2.7% and transportation infrastructure made up 1.8%. Out of the forested land, 34.8% of the total land area is heavily forested and 2.1% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 12.4% is used for growing crops and 2.2% is pastures and 20.5% is used for alpine pastures. Of the water in the municipality, 0.4% is in lakes and 0.9% is in rivers and streams. Of the unproductive areas, 9.2% is unproductive vegetation and 8.8% is too rocky for vegetation. The municipality includes the village of Vouvry as well as Porte du Scex along the

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river and the villages of Miex and Taney on the slopes of

Le Grammont Le Grammont is a mountain in the Chablais Alps, near Le Bouveret in Valais. At 2,172 metres above sea level, it is one of the highest peaks overlooking Lake Geneva. Various trails lead to the summit, mostly from the southern side. On the way to ...

Coat of arms

The

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of the municipal

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is ''Per fess Gules an Eagle displayed Sable beaked, langued and membered Argent ensigned a cross couped of the last, and Azure three Mullets of Five, two and one.''

Demographics

Vouvry has a population () of . , 22.2% 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 (2000–2010 ) the population has changed at a rate of 19.3%. It has changed at a rate of 20.1% due to migration and at a rate of 2% due to births and deaths.
accessed 21 September 2011 Most of the population () speaks French (2,549 or 86.1%) as their first language,

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is the second most common (100 or 3.4%) and

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is the third (88 or 3.0%). There are 54 people who speak

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. , the population was 49.5% male and 50.5% female. The population was made up of 1,370 Swiss men (38.2% of the population) and 406 (11.3%) non-Swiss men. There were 1,414 Swiss women (39.4%) and 397 (11.1%) non-Swiss women.Ständige Wohnbevolkerung nach Geschlecht und Heimat am 31.12.2009.xls
accessed 24 August 2011 Of the population in the municipality, 975 or about 32.9% were born in Vouvry and lived there in 2000. There were 442 or 14.9% who were born in the same canton, while 746 or 25.2% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 703 or 23.8% were born outside of Switzerland. , children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 26.9% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 58% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 15%. , there were 1,180 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 1,427 married individuals, 174 widows or widowers and 179 individuals who are divorced.STAT-TAB Datenwürfel für Thema 40.3 - 2000
accessed 2 February 2011 , there were 1,121 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.5 persons per household. There were 327 households that consist of only one person and 104 households with five or more people. , a total of 1,081 apartments (77.7% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 238 apartments (17.1%) were seasonally occupied and 72 apartments (5.2%) 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 10.3 new units per 1000 residents. The vacancy rate for the municipality, , was 0.61%. 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:3000 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:1850 from:start till:953 text:"953" bar:1860 from:start till:1178 text:"1,178" bar:1870 from:start till:1339 text:"1,339" bar:1880 from:start till:1315 text:"1,315" bar:1888 from:start till:1273 text:"1,273" bar:1900 from:start till:1295 text:"1,295" bar:1910 from:start till:1291 text:"1,291" bar:1920 from:start till:1256 text:"1,256" bar:1930 from:start till:1235 text:"1,235" bar:1941 from:start till:1282 text:"1,282" bar:1950 from:start till:1348 text:"1,348" bar:1960 from:start till:1368 text:"1,368" bar:1970 from:start till:1851 text:"1,851" bar:1980 from:start till:1896 text:"1,896" bar:1990 from:start till:2384 text:"2,384" bar:2000 from:start till:2960 text:"2,960"

Sights

The entire village of Vouvry is designated as part of the

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Twin Towns

Vouvry is twinned with the towns of Bodnegg,

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, Sivom du Pays des Maures,

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and

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Politics

In the 2015 federal election the most popular party was the FDP with 39.9% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SVP (24.2%), the CVP (19.0%) and the SP (9.6%). In the federal election, a total of 1,108 votes were cast, and the

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was 48.3%. In the 2009 Conseil d'État/Staatsrat election a total of 780 votes were cast, of which 36 or about 4.6% were invalid. The voter participation was 38.6%, which is much less than the cantonal average of 54.67%. In the 2007 Swiss Council of States election a total of 954 votes were cast, of which 77 or about 8.1% were invalid. The voter participation was 48.9%, which is much less than the cantonal average of 59.88%. In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the FDP which received 33.29% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the CVP (24.61%), the SVP (22.97%) and the SP (10.83%). In the federal election, a total of 1,001 votes were cast, and the

was 49.7%.

Economy

Vouvry is an industrial-tertiary municipality, in other words, a municipality where agriculture and manufacturing play a minor role in the economy. , there were a total of 1,541 people employed in the municipality. Of these, a total of 49 people worked in 17 businesses in the primary economic sector. The

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employed 772 workers in 66 separate businesses. There were 11 small businesses with a total of 285 employees and 3 mid sized businesses with a total of 345 employees. Finally, the

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provided 720 jobs in 154 businesses. There were 9 small businesses with a total of 225 employees and one mid sized business with 141 employees. In 2014 a total of 10.3% of the population received social assistance.Swiss Federal Statistical Office - Regional portraits
accessed 27 October 2016 In 2015 local hotels had a total of 7,203 overnight stays, of which 37.6% were international visitors. the total number of

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jobs was 1,085. The number of jobs in the primary sector was 37, all of which were in agriculture. The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 618 of which 431 or (69.7%) were in manufacturing and 179 (29.0%) were in construction. The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 430. In the tertiary sector; 78 or 18.1% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 37 or 8.6% were in the movement and storage of goods, 56 or 13.0% were in a hotel or restaurant, 5 or 1.2% were in the information industry, 15 or 3.5% were the insurance or financial industry, 7 or 1.6% were technical professionals or scientists, 54 or 12.6% were in education and 129 or 30.0% were in health care. , there were 709 workers who commuted into the municipality and 809 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 1.1 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering. About 11.3% of the workforce coming into Vouvry are coming from outside Switzerland.Swiss Federal Statistical Office - Statweb
accessed 24 June 2010 Of the working population, 7% used public transportation to get to work, and 66.2% used a private car.

Religion

From the , 1,828 or 61.8% were

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, while 514 or 17.4% belonged to the

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. Of the rest of the population, there were 31 members of an Orthodox church (or about 1.05% of the population), there was 1 individual who belongs to the Christian Catholic Church, and there were 39 individuals (or about 1.32% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There were 267 (or about 9.02% of the population) who were

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ic. There were 5 individuals who were

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, 6 individuals who were

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and 2 individuals who belonged to another church. 167 (or about 5.64% of the population) belonged to no church, are

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, and 119 individuals (or about 4.02% of the population) did not answer the question.

Education

In Vouvry about 999 or (33.8%) of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education, and 221 or (7.5%) have completed additional higher education (either

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or a ''

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''). Of the 221 who completed tertiary schooling, 58.4% were Swiss men, 24.4% were Swiss women, 10.4% were non-Swiss men and 6.8% were non-Swiss women. , there were 170 students in Vouvry who came from another municipality, while 91 residents attended schools outside the municipality. Vouvry is home to the ''Bibliothèque municipale et scolaire'' library. The library has () 17,000 books or other media, and loaned out 12,809 items in the same year. It was open a total of 280 days with average of 14.5 hours per week during that year.

Crime

In 2014 the crime rate, of the over 200 crimes listed in the

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(running from murder, robbery and assault to accepting bribes and election fraud), in Vouvry was 34.4 per thousand residents, which is 53.3% of the average rate in the entire country. During the same period, the rate of drug crimes was 11.8 per thousand residents, or about the same as the national rate.Statistical Atlas of Switzerland
accessed 5 April 2016