Bovernier
Encyclopedia
Bovernier is a municipality
in the district of Martigny in the canton
of Valais
in Switzerland
.
The municipality is located in the Martigny district, at the entrance to the Entremont region. It consists of the village of Bovernier and the hamlet
of Les Valettes.
of the municipal coat of arms
is Azure, issuant from a Castle Argent an Alder-tree Branch palewise Or.
Most of the population speaks French
(718 or 98.0%) as their first language, Albanian
is the second most common (7 or 1.0%) and German
is the third (2 or 0.3%). There is 1 person who speaks Italian
.
, the gender distribution of the population was 49.7% male and 50.3% female. The population was made up of 366 Swiss men (46.2% of the population) and 28 (3.5%) non-Swiss men. There were 375 Swiss women (47.3%) and 24 (3.0%) non-Swiss women.
Of the population in the municipality 455 or about 62.1% were born in Bovernier and lived there in 2000. There were 186 or 25.4% who were born in the same canton, while 42 or 5.7% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 39 or 5.3% were born outside of Switzerland.
The age distribution of the population is children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 29.3% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 55.3% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 15.4%. , there were 296 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 375 married individuals, 45 widows or widowers and 17 individuals who are divorced.
, there were 278 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.6 persons per household. There were 69 households that consist of only one person and 36 households with five or more people. Out of a total of 283 households that answered this question, 24.4% were households made up of just one person and there was 1 adult who lived with their parents. Of the rest of the households, there are 82 married couples without children, 105 married couples with children There were 17 single parents with a child or children. There were 4 households that were made up of unrelated people and 5 households that were made up of some sort of institution or another collective housing.
, a total of 277 apartments (66.1% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 115 apartments (27.4%) were seasonally occupied and 27 apartments (6.4%) were empty. , the construction rate of new housing units was 1.3 new units per 1000 residents. The vacancy rate for the municipality, , was 0.66%.
The historical population is given in the following chart:
the most popular party was the CVP
which received 39.75% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SP
(18.77%), the FDP
(18.53%) and the SVP
(10.56%). In the federal election, a total of 440 votes were cast, and the voter turnout
was 71.8%.
In the 2009 Conseil d'Etat/Staatsrat
election a total of 431 votes were cast, of which 26 or about 6.0% were invalid. The voter participation was 70.4%, which is much more than the cantonal average of 54.67%. In the 2007 Swiss Council of States election
election a total of 436 votes were cast, of which 26 or about 6.0% were invalid. The voter participation was 72.4%, which is much more than the cantonal average of 59.88%.
the total number of full-time equivalent
jobs was 66. The number of jobs in the primary sector was 9, of which 3 were in agriculture and 6 were in forestry or lumber production. The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 21 of which 5 or (23.8%) were in manufacturing and 15 (71.4%) were in construction. The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 36. In the tertiary sector; 2 or 5.6% were in the sale or repair of motor vehicles, 9 or 25.0% were in the movement and storage of goods, 16 or 44.4% were in a hotel or restaurant, 1 was in the information industry, 1 was a technical professional or scientist, 3 or 8.3% were in education.
, there were 31 workers who commuted into the municipality and 251 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 8.1 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering. Of the working population, 10.5% used public transportation to get to work, and 77.4% used a private car.
. Of the rest of the population, there was 1 member of an Orthodox church
, and there were 8 individuals (or about 1.09% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There were 6 (or about 0.82% of the population) who were Islam
ic. 15 (or about 2.05% of the population) belonged to no church, are agnostic
or atheist
, and 13 individuals (or about 1.77% of the population) did not answer the question.
). Of the 50 who completed tertiary schooling, 72.0% were Swiss men, 26.0% were Swiss women.
, there were 67 students from Bovernier who attended schools outside the municipality.
Municipalities of Switzerland
Communes , also known as municipalities, are the smallest government division in Switzerland, numbering 2,596 . While many have a population of a few hundred citizens, the largest cities such as Zürich or Geneva also have the legal status of municipalities...
in the district of Martigny in the canton
Cantons of Switzerland
The 26 cantons of Switzerland are the member states of the federal state of Switzerland. Each canton was a fully sovereign state with its own borders, army and currency from the Treaty of Westphalia until the establishment of the Swiss federal state in 1848...
of Valais
Valais
The Valais is one of the 26 cantons of Switzerland in the southwestern part of the country, around the valley of the Rhône from its headwaters to Lake Geneva, separating the Pennine Alps from the Bernese Alps. The canton is one of the drier parts of Switzerland in its central Rhône valley...
in Switzerland
Switzerland
Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....
.
Geography
Bovernier has an area, , of 12.9 square kilometre. Of this area, 5.0% is used for agricultural purposes, while 72.1% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 4.3% is settled (buildings or roads) and 18.5% is unproductive land.The municipality is located in the Martigny district, at the entrance to the Entremont region. It consists of the village of Bovernier and the hamlet
Hamlet (place)
A hamlet is usually a rural settlement which is too small to be considered a village, though sometimes the word is used for a different sort of community. Historically, when a hamlet became large enough to justify building a church, it was then classified as a village...
of Les Valettes.
Coat of arms
The blazonBlazon
In heraldry and heraldic vexillology, a blazon is a formal description of a coat of arms, flag or similar emblem, from which the reader can reconstruct the appropriate image...
of the municipal coat of arms
Coat of arms
A coat of arms is a unique heraldic design on a shield or escutcheon or on a surcoat or tabard used to cover and protect armour and to identify the wearer. Thus the term is often stated as "coat-armour", because it was anciently displayed on the front of a coat of cloth...
is Azure, issuant from a Castle Argent an Alder-tree Branch palewise Or.
Demographics
Bovernier has a population of . , 6.1% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (2000–2010 ) the population has changed at a rate of 5%. It has changed at a rate of 2.1% due to migration and at a rate of 2.3% due to births and deaths.Most of the population speaks French
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
(718 or 98.0%) as their first language, Albanian
Albanian language
Albanian is an Indo-European language spoken by approximately 7.6 million people, primarily in Albania and Kosovo but also in other areas of the Balkans in which there is an Albanian population, including western Macedonia, southern Montenegro, southern Serbia and northwestern Greece...
is the second most common (7 or 1.0%) and German
German language
German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....
is the third (2 or 0.3%). There is 1 person who speaks Italian
Italian language
Italian is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia...
.
, the gender distribution of the population was 49.7% male and 50.3% female. The population was made up of 366 Swiss men (46.2% of the population) and 28 (3.5%) non-Swiss men. There were 375 Swiss women (47.3%) and 24 (3.0%) non-Swiss women.
Of the population in the municipality 455 or about 62.1% were born in Bovernier and lived there in 2000. There were 186 or 25.4% who were born in the same canton, while 42 or 5.7% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 39 or 5.3% were born outside of Switzerland.
The age distribution of the population is children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 29.3% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 55.3% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 15.4%. , there were 296 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 375 married individuals, 45 widows or widowers and 17 individuals who are divorced.
, there were 278 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.6 persons per household. There were 69 households that consist of only one person and 36 households with five or more people. Out of a total of 283 households that answered this question, 24.4% were households made up of just one person and there was 1 adult who lived with their parents. Of the rest of the households, there are 82 married couples without children, 105 married couples with children There were 17 single parents with a child or children. There were 4 households that were made up of unrelated people and 5 households that were made up of some sort of institution or another collective housing.
, a total of 277 apartments (66.1% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 115 apartments (27.4%) were seasonally occupied and 27 apartments (6.4%) were empty. , the construction rate of new housing units was 1.3 new units per 1000 residents. The vacancy rate for the municipality, , was 0.66%.
The historical population is given in the following chart:
Politics
In the 2007 federal electionSwiss federal election, 2007
Elections to the Swiss Federal Assembly, the federal parliament of Switzerland, were held on Sunday, 21 October 2007. In a few cantons, a second round of the elections to the Council of States was held on 11 November, 18 November, and 25 November 2007...
the most popular party was the CVP
Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland
The Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland is a Christian democratic political party in Switzerland. It is the fourth-largest party in the National Council, with 31 seats, and the largest in the Council of States, with 15 seats. It has one seat, that of Doris Leuthard, on the Swiss...
which received 39.75% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SP
Social Democratic Party of Switzerland
The Social Democratic Party of Switzerland is the largest centre-left political party in Switzerland....
(18.77%), the FDP
FDP.The Liberals
FDP.The Liberals is a classical liberal political party in Switzerland. It is the joint-largest party in the Federal Council, third-largest party in the National Council, and second-largest in the Council of States....
(18.53%) and the SVP
Swiss People's Party
The Swiss People's Party , also known as the Democratic Union of the Centre , is a conservative political party in Switzerland. Chaired by Toni Brunner, but spearheaded by Christoph Blocher, the party is the largest party in the Federal Assembly, with 58 members of the National Council and 6 of...
(10.56%). In the federal election, a total of 440 votes were cast, and the voter turnout
Voter turnout
Voter turnout is the percentage of eligible voters who cast a ballot in an election . After increasing for many decades, there has been a trend of decreasing voter turnout in most established democracies since the 1960s...
was 71.8%.
In the 2009 Conseil d'Etat/Staatsrat
Conseil d'Etat (Switzerland)
In Switzerland, Conseil d'Etat is the name of the council constituting the cantonal government of French-speaking cantons. It is not to be confused with the Conseil des États which is a chamber of the Swiss parliament....
election a total of 431 votes were cast, of which 26 or about 6.0% were invalid. The voter participation was 70.4%, which is much more than the cantonal average of 54.67%. In the 2007 Swiss Council of States election
Swiss Council of States election, 2007
Elections were held to the Council of States of Switzerland in October and November 2007 as part of the 2007 federal election. All 46 members of the Council of States were elected from all cantons of Switzerland. The first round was held on 21 October...
election a total of 436 votes were cast, of which 26 or about 6.0% were invalid. The voter participation was 72.4%, which is much more than the cantonal average of 59.88%.
Economy
, Bovernier had an unemployment rate of 4.4%. , there were 16 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 5 businesses involved in this sector. 23 people were employed in the secondary sector and there were 8 businesses in this sector. 44 people were employed in the tertiary sector, with 15 businesses in this sector. There were 314 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 40.4% of the workforce.the total number of full-time equivalent
Full-time equivalent
Full-time equivalent , is a unit to measure employed persons or students in a way that makes them comparable although they may work or study a different number of hours per week. FTE is often used to measure a worker's involvement in a project, or to track cost reductions in an organization...
jobs was 66. The number of jobs in the primary sector was 9, of which 3 were in agriculture and 6 were in forestry or lumber production. The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 21 of which 5 or (23.8%) were in manufacturing and 15 (71.4%) were in construction. The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 36. In the tertiary sector; 2 or 5.6% were in the sale or repair of motor vehicles, 9 or 25.0% were in the movement and storage of goods, 16 or 44.4% were in a hotel or restaurant, 1 was in the information industry, 1 was a technical professional or scientist, 3 or 8.3% were in education.
, there were 31 workers who commuted into the municipality and 251 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 8.1 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering. Of the working population, 10.5% used public transportation to get to work, and 77.4% used a private car.
Religion
From the , 677 or 92.4% were Roman Catholic, while 17 or 2.3% belonged to the Swiss Reformed ChurchSwiss Reformed Church
The Reformed branch of Protestantism in Switzerland was started in Zürich by Huldrych Zwingli and spread within a few years to Basel , Bern , St...
. Of the rest of the population, there was 1 member of an Orthodox church
Orthodox Christianity
The term Orthodox Christianity may refer to:* the Eastern Orthodox Church and its various geographical subdivisions...
, and there were 8 individuals (or about 1.09% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There were 6 (or about 0.82% of the population) who were Islam
Islam
Islam . The most common are and . : Arabic pronunciation varies regionally. The first vowel ranges from ~~. The second vowel ranges from ~~~...
ic. 15 (or about 2.05% of the population) belonged to no church, are agnostic
Agnosticism
Agnosticism is the view that the truth value of certain claims—especially claims about the existence or non-existence of any deity, but also other religious and metaphysical claims—is unknown or unknowable....
or atheist
Atheism
Atheism is, in a broad sense, the rejection of belief in the existence of deities. In a narrower sense, atheism is specifically the position that there are no deities...
, and 13 individuals (or about 1.77% of the population) did not answer the question.
Education
In Bovernier about 260 or (35.5%) of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education, and 50 or (6.8%) have completed additional higher education (either University or a FachhochschuleFachhochschule
A Fachhochschule or University of Applied Sciences is a German type of tertiary education institution, sometimes specialized in certain topical areas . Fachhochschulen were founded in Germany and later adopted by Austria, Liechtenstein, Switzerland and Greece...
). Of the 50 who completed tertiary schooling, 72.0% were Swiss men, 26.0% were Swiss women.
, there were 67 students from Bovernier who attended schools outside the municipality.