Vandœuvres
Vandœuvres is a municipality of the Canton of Geneva, Switzerland.
Geography
Vandœuvres has an area,, of. Of this area, or 39.0% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 5.9% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 55.1% is settled.Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 37.9% and transportation infrastructure made up 3.9%. Power and water infrastructure as well as other special developed areas made up 1.1% of the area while parks, green belts and sports fields made up 11.8%. Out of the forested land, 2.3% of the total land area is heavily forested and 3.6% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 28.6% is used for growing crops and 7.9% is pastures, while 2.5% is used for orchards or vine crops.
The municipality of Vandœuvres consists of the sub-sections or villages of Bessinge - La Rippaz, Vandœuvres - village, Crête, Seymaz and Chougny.
Demographics
| Nationality | Amount | % total |
| 192 | 7.5 | |
| 76 | 2.9 | |
| 68 | 2.6 | |
| 54 | 2.1 | |
| 41 | 1.6 | |
| 38 | 1.5 | |
| 38 | 1.5 | |
| 35 | 1.4 | |
| 26 | 1.0 | |
| 25 | 1.0 |
Vandœuvres has a population of., 26.8% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years the population has changed at a rate of 18%. It has changed at a rate of 15% due to migration and at a rate of 2% due to births and deaths.
Most of the population speaks French, with English being second most common and German being third. There are 42 people who speak Italian and 1 person who speaks Romansh.
, the gender distribution of the population was 49.5% male and 50.5% female. The population was made up of 904 Swiss men and 428 non-Swiss men. There were 950 Swiss women and 409 non-Swiss women. Of the population in the municipality 340 or about 14.6% were born in Vandœuvres and lived there in 2000. There were 741 or 31.8% who were born in the same canton, while 332 or 14.2% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 856 or 36.7% were born outside of Switzerland.
In there were 17 live births to Swiss citizens and 9 births to non-Swiss citizens, and in same time span there were 14 deaths of Swiss citizens and 4 non-Swiss citizen deaths. Ignoring immigration and emigration, the population of Swiss citizens increased by 3 while the foreign population increased by 5. There were 11 Swiss men and 7 Swiss women who emigrated from Switzerland. At the same time, there were 15 non-Swiss men and 10 non-Swiss women who immigrated from another country to Switzerland. The total Swiss population change in 2008 was a decrease of 16 and the non-Swiss population increased by 22 people. This represents a population growth rate of 0.2%.
The age distribution of the population is children and teenagers make up 28.7% of the population, while adults make up 56.1% and seniors make up 15.2%.
, there were 971 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 1,123 married individuals, 112 widows or widowers and 127 individuals who are divorced.
, there were 810 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.7 persons per household. There were 187 households that consist of only one person and 87 households with five or more people. Out of a total of 830 households that answered this question, 22.5% were households made up of just one person and there were 3 adults who lived with their parents. Of the rest of the households, there are 198 married couples without children, 355 married couples with children. There were 55 single parents with a child or children. There were 12 households that were made up of unrelated people and 20 households that were made up of some sort of institution or another collective housing.
there were 540 single family homes out of a total of 656 inhabited buildings. There were 59 multi-family buildings, along with 39 multi-purpose buildings that were mostly used for housing and 18 other use buildings that also had some housing. Of the single family homes 84 were built before 1919, while 105 were built between 1990 and 2000. The most multi-family homes were built before 1919 and the next most were built between 1996 and 2000.
there were 840 apartments in the municipality. The most common apartment size was 5 rooms of which there were 163. There were 26 single room apartments and 505 apartments with five or more rooms. Of these apartments, a total of 760 apartments were permanently occupied, while 61 apartments were seasonally occupied and 19 apartments were empty., the construction rate of new housing units was 0.8 new units per 1000 residents. The vacancy rate for the municipality,, was 0.32%.
The historical population is given in the following chart:
Colors=
id:lightgrey value:gray
id:darkgrey value:gray
ImageSize = width:960 height:210
PlotArea = height:150 left:100 bottom:50 right:100
AlignBars = justify
DateFormat = x.y
Period = from:0 till:2400
TimeAxis = orientation:vertical
AlignBars = justify
ScaleMajor = gridcolor:darkgrey increment:500 start:0
ScaleMinor = gridcolor:lightgrey increment:100 start:0
PlotData=
color:yellowgreen width:40 mark: align:center
bar:1850 from:start till:526 text:"526"
bar:1860 from:start till:532 text:"532"
bar:1870 from:start till:610 text:"610"
bar:1880 from:start till:572 text:"572"
bar:1888 from:start till:557 text:"557"
bar:1900 from:start till:542 text:"542"
bar:1910 from:start till:557 text:"557"
bar:1920 from:start till:622 text:"622"
bar:1930 from:start till:782 text:"782"
bar:1941 from:start till:898 text:"898"
bar:1950 from:start till:1073 text:"1,073"
bar:1960 from:start till:1282 text:"1,282"
bar:1970 from:start till:1448 text:"1,448"
bar:1980 from:start till:1711 text:"1,711"
bar:1990 from:start till:1865 text:"1,865"
bar:2000 from:start till:2333 text:"2,333"
Politics
In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the LPS Party which received 33.97% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SVP, the Green Party and the SP. In the federal election, a total of 834 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 58.8%.In the 2009 Grand Conseil election, there were a total of 1,412 registered voters of which 712 voted. The most popular party in the municipality for this election was the Libéral with 39.2% of the ballots. In the canton-wide election they received the highest proportion of votes. The second most popular party was the UDC, they were seventh in the canton-wide election, while the third most popular party was the Les Verts, they were second in the canton-wide election.
For the 2009 Conseil d'Etat election, there were a total of 1,412 registered voters of which 768 voted.
In 2011, all the municipalities held local elections, and in Vandœuvres there were 17 spots open on the municipal council. There were a total of 1,722 registered voters of which 928 voted. Out of the 928 votes, there were 1 blank votes, 1 null or unreadable votes and 76 votes with a name that was not on the list.
Economy
, Vandœuvres had an unemployment rate of 2.1%. , there were 17 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 7 businesses involved in this sector. 56 people were employed in the secondary sector and there were 10 businesses in this sector. 408 people were employed in the tertiary sector, with 64 businesses in this sector. There were 986 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 40.1% of the workforce.the total number of full-time equivalent jobs was 385. The number of jobs in the primary sector was 13, all of which were in agriculture. The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 54 of which 22 or were in manufacturing and 23 were in construction. The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 318. In the tertiary sector; 13 or 4.1% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 17 or 5.3% were in a hotel or restaurant, 3 or 0.9% were the insurance or financial industry, 58 or 18.2% were technical professionals or scientists, 44 or 13.8% were in education and 60 or 18.9% were in health care.
, there were 328 workers who commuted into the municipality and 802 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 2.4 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering. About 24.7% of the workforce coming into Vandœuvres are coming from outside Switzerland, while 0.2% of the locals commute out of Switzerland for work. Of the working population, 13.3% used public transportation to get to work, and 62% used a private car.
Religion
From the, 879 or 37.7% were Roman Catholic, while 682 or 29.2% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church. Of the rest of the population, there were 33 members of an Orthodox church, there were 2 individuals who belonged to the Christian Catholic Church, and there were 60 individuals who belonged to another Christian church. There were 92 individuals who were Jewish, and 47 who were Islamic. There were 5 individuals who were Buddhist, 4 individuals who were Hindu and 3 individuals who belonged to another church. 395 belonged to no church, are agnostic or atheist, and 131 individuals did not answer the question.Education
In Vandœuvres about 561 or of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education, and 761 or have completed additional higher education. Of the 761 who completed tertiary schooling, 40.7% were Swiss men, 30.4% were Swiss women, 17.1% were non-Swiss men and 11.8% were non-Swiss women.During the 2009-2010 school year there were a total of 627 students in the Vandœuvres school system. The education system in the Canton of Geneva allows young children to attend two years of non-obligatory Kindergarten. During that school year, there were 35 children who were in a pre-kindergarten class. The canton's school system provides two years of non-mandatory kindergarten and requires students to attend six years of primary school, with some of the children attending smaller, specialized classes. In Vandœuvres there were 61 students in kindergarten or primary school and 6 students were in the special, smaller classes. The secondary school program consists of three lower, obligatory years of schooling, followed by three to five years of optional, advanced schools. There were 61 lower secondary students who attended school in Vandœuvres. There were 103 upper secondary students from the municipality along with 11 students who were in a professional, non-university track program. An additional 229 students attended a private school.
, there were 33 students in Vandœuvres who came from another municipality, while 377 residents attended schools outside the municipality.