Domdidier
Encyclopedia
Domdidier is a municipality
in the district of Broye
, in the canton of Fribourg
, Switzerland
.
Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 2.0% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 8.2% and transportation infrastructure made up 5.1%. Out of the forested land, 13.2% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.9% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 52.4% is used for growing crops and 14.1% is pastures, while 1.6% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is flowing water.
The municipality is located in the Broye district, on the Payerne
-Murten
road. It consists of the village of Domdidier and the hamlets
of Granges-Rothey and Eissy.
Most of the population speaks French
(1,894 or 86.2%) as their first language, German
is the second most common (127 or 5.8%) and Portuguese
is the third (69 or 3.1%). There are 10 people who speak Italian
and 1 person who speaks Romansh.
, the population was 50.5% male and 49.5% female. The population was made up of 1,026 Swiss men (40.4% of the population) and 254 (10.0%) non-Swiss men. There were 1,032 Swiss women (40.7%) and 225 (8.9%) non-Swiss women. Of the population in the municipality, 878 or about 40.0% were born in Domdidier and lived there in 2000. There were 470 or 21.4% who were born in the same canton, while 463 or 21.1% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 334 or 15.2% were born outside of Switzerland.
The age distribution, , in Domdidier is; 296 children or 13.5% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 303 teenagers or 13.8% are between 10 and 19. Of the adult population, 294 people or 13.4% of the population are between 20 and 29 years old. 380 people or 17.3% are between 30 and 39, 298 people or 13.6% are between 40 and 49, and 271 people or 12.3% are between 50 and 59. The senior population distribution is 161 people or 7.3% of the population are between 60 and 69 years old, 119 people or 5.4% are between 70 and 79, there are 58 people or 2.6% who are between 80 and 89, and there are 16 people or 0.7% who are 90 and older.
, there were 930 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 1,063 married individuals, 112 widows or widowers and 91 individuals who are divorced.
, there were 819 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.6 persons per household. There were 200 households that consist of only one person and 85 households with five or more people. , a total of 801 apartments (88.9% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 79 apartments (8.8%) were seasonally occupied and 21 apartments (2.3%) were empty. , the construction rate of new housing units was 5.1 new units per 1000 residents. The vacancy rate for the municipality, , was 1.46%.
The historical population is given in the following chart:
the most popular party was the SP
which received 27.2% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the FDP
(26.4%), the CVP
(18.4%) and the SVP
(14.9%).
The SPS received about the same percentage of the vote as they did in the 2007 Federal election
(27.9% in 2007 vs 27.2% in 2011). The FDP moved from fourth in 2007 (with 18.1%) to second in 2011, the CVP moved from second in 2007 (with 22.4%) to third and the SVP moved from third in 2007 (with 19.0%) to fourth. A total of 855 votes were cast in this election, of which 11 or 1.3% were invalid.
the total number of full-time equivalent
jobs was 1,508. The number of jobs in the primary sector was 36, all of which were in agriculture. The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 745 of which 593 or (79.6%) were in manufacturing and 150 (20.1%) were in construction. The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 727. In the tertiary sector; 305 or 42.0% were in the sale or repair of motor vehicles, 5 or 0.7% were in the movement and storage of goods, 21 or 2.9% were in a hotel or restaurant, 2 or 0.3% were in the information industry, 17 or 2.3% were the insurance or financial industry, 70 or 9.6% were technical professionals or scientists, 45 or 6.2% were in education and 56 or 7.7% were in health care.
, there were 804 workers who commuted into the municipality and 660 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net importer of workers, with about 1.2 workers entering the municipality for every one leaving. Of the working population, 6.8% used public transportation to get to work, and 70.3% used a private car.
. Of the rest of the population, there were 16 members of an Orthodox church
(or about 0.73% of the population), there were 3 individuals (or about 0.14% of the population) who belonged to the Christian Catholic Church
, and there were 45 individuals (or about 2.05% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There were 108 (or about 4.92% of the population) who were Islam
ic. There were 6 individuals who were Buddhist
and 3 individuals who belonged to another church. 113 (or about 5.15% of the population) belonged to no church, are agnostic
or atheist
, and 55 individuals (or about 2.50% of the population) did not answer the question.
). Of the 171 who completed tertiary schooling, 65.5% were Swiss men, 25.1% were Swiss women, 4.7% were non-Swiss men and 4.7% were non-Swiss women.
The Canton of Fribourg school system provides one year of non-obligatory Kindergarten
, followed by six years of Primary school. This is followed by three years of obligatory lower Secondary school where the students are separated according to ability and aptitude. Following the lower Secondary students may attend a three or four year optional upper Secondary school. The upper Secondary school is divided into gymnasium
(university preparatory) and vocational programs. After they finish the upper Secondary program, students may choose to attend a Tertiary school or continue their apprenticeship
.
During the 2010-11 school year, there were a total of 715 students attending 34 classes in Domdidier. A total of 499 students from the municipality attended any school, either in the municipality or outside of it. There were 4 kindergarten classes with a total of 87 students in the municipality. The municipality had 11 primary classes and 221 students. During the same year, there were 19 lower secondary classes with a total of 407 students. There were no upper Secondary classes or vocational classes, but there were 4 upper Secondary students and 60 upper Secondary vocational students who attended classes in another municipality. The municipality had no non-university Tertiary classes, but there were 8 non-university Tertiary students and 3 specialized Tertiary students who attended classes in another municipality.
, there were 154 students in Domdidier who came from another municipality, while 67 residents 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 Broye
Broye (district)
Broye District is a one of the seven districts of the Canton of Fribourg, Switzerland, lying in the vicinity of Lake Neuchâtel. Its territory is non-contiguous and Broye is fragmented into four parts, three of which exist as exclaves from the canton of Fribourg...
, in the canton of Fribourg
Canton of Fribourg
The Canton of Fribourg is a canton of Switzerland. It is located in the west of the country. The capital of the canton is Fribourg. The name Fribourg is French, whereas is the German name for both the canton and the town.-History:...
, 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
Domdidier has an area, , of 8.9 square kilometre. Of this area, 6.07 square kilometre or 68.1% is used for agricultural purposes, while 1.35 square kilometre or 15.2% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 1.41 square kilometre or 15.8% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.08 km² (19.8 acre) or 0.9% is either rivers or lakes and 0.02 km² (4.9 acre) or 0.2% is unproductive land.Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 2.0% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 8.2% and transportation infrastructure made up 5.1%. Out of the forested land, 13.2% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.9% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 52.4% is used for growing crops and 14.1% is pastures, while 1.6% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is flowing water.
The municipality is located in the Broye district, on the Payerne
Payerne
Payerne is a municipality in the Swiss canton of Vaud. It was the seat of the district of Payerne, and is now part of the district of Broye-Vully....
-Murten
Murten
Murten is a municipality in the See district of the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland.It is located on the southern shores of Lake Morat. Morat is situated between Bern and Lausanne and is the capital of the Lake District of the canton of Fribourg....
road. It consists of the village of Domdidier and the hamlets
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 Granges-Rothey and Eissy.
Demographics
Domdidier has a population of . , 17.3% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (2000–2010) the population has changed at a rate of 18.5%. Migration accounted for 13.5%, while births and deaths accounted for 7.1%.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...
(1,894 or 86.2%) as their first language, 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 second most common (127 or 5.8%) and Portuguese
Portuguese language
Portuguese is a Romance language that arose in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia, nowadays Galicia and Northern Portugal. The southern part of the Kingdom of Galicia became independent as the County of Portugal in 1095...
is the third (69 or 3.1%). There are 10 people who speak 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...
and 1 person who speaks Romansh.
, the population was 50.5% male and 49.5% female. The population was made up of 1,026 Swiss men (40.4% of the population) and 254 (10.0%) non-Swiss men. There were 1,032 Swiss women (40.7%) and 225 (8.9%) non-Swiss women. Of the population in the municipality, 878 or about 40.0% were born in Domdidier and lived there in 2000. There were 470 or 21.4% who were born in the same canton, while 463 or 21.1% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 334 or 15.2% were born outside of Switzerland.
The age distribution, , in Domdidier is; 296 children or 13.5% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 303 teenagers or 13.8% are between 10 and 19. Of the adult population, 294 people or 13.4% of the population are between 20 and 29 years old. 380 people or 17.3% are between 30 and 39, 298 people or 13.6% are between 40 and 49, and 271 people or 12.3% are between 50 and 59. The senior population distribution is 161 people or 7.3% of the population are between 60 and 69 years old, 119 people or 5.4% are between 70 and 79, there are 58 people or 2.6% who are between 80 and 89, and there are 16 people or 0.7% who are 90 and older.
, there were 930 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 1,063 married individuals, 112 widows or widowers and 91 individuals who are divorced.
, there were 819 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.6 persons per household. There were 200 households that consist of only one person and 85 households with five or more people. , a total of 801 apartments (88.9% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 79 apartments (8.8%) were seasonally occupied and 21 apartments (2.3%) were empty. , the construction rate of new housing units was 5.1 new units per 1000 residents. The vacancy rate for the municipality, , was 1.46%.
The historical population is given in the following chart:
Politics
In the 2011 federal electionSwiss federal election, 2011
Federal elections were held in Switzerland on 23 October 2011.All of the Federal Assembly were to be elected: all 200 seats in the National Council and all 46 seats in the Council of States....
the most popular party was the SP
Social Democratic Party of Switzerland
The Social Democratic Party of Switzerland is the largest centre-left political party in Switzerland....
which received 27.2% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were 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....
(26.4%), 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...
(18.4%) 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...
(14.9%).
The SPS received about the same percentage of the vote as they did in the 2007 Federal election
Swiss 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...
(27.9% in 2007 vs 27.2% in 2011). The FDP moved from fourth in 2007 (with 18.1%) to second in 2011, the CVP moved from second in 2007 (with 22.4%) to third and the SVP moved from third in 2007 (with 19.0%) to fourth. A total of 855 votes were cast in this election, of which 11 or 1.3% were invalid.
Economy
, Domdidier had an unemployment rate of 2.8%. , there were 51 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 22 businesses involved in this sector. 777 people were employed in the secondary sector and there were 38 businesses in this sector. 863 people were employed in the tertiary sector, with 98 businesses in this sector. There were 1,133 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 42.7% 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 1,508. The number of jobs in the primary sector was 36, all of which were in agriculture. The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 745 of which 593 or (79.6%) were in manufacturing and 150 (20.1%) were in construction. The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 727. In the tertiary sector; 305 or 42.0% were in the sale or repair of motor vehicles, 5 or 0.7% were in the movement and storage of goods, 21 or 2.9% were in a hotel or restaurant, 2 or 0.3% were in the information industry, 17 or 2.3% were the insurance or financial industry, 70 or 9.6% were technical professionals or scientists, 45 or 6.2% were in education and 56 or 7.7% were in health care.
, there were 804 workers who commuted into the municipality and 660 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net importer of workers, with about 1.2 workers entering the municipality for every one leaving. Of the working population, 6.8% used public transportation to get to work, and 70.3% used a private car.
Religion
From the , 1,573 or 71.6% were Roman Catholic, while 296 or 13.5% 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 were 16 members of an Orthodox church
Orthodox Christianity
The term Orthodox Christianity may refer to:* the Eastern Orthodox Church and its various geographical subdivisions...
(or about 0.73% of the population), there were 3 individuals (or about 0.14% of the population) who belonged to the Christian Catholic Church
Christian Catholic Church of Switzerland
The Christian Catholic Church of Switzerland is the Swiss member church of the Union of Utrecht, also known as Old Catholic Church, originally founded by the jansenists, with a later influx of discontented Catholics following their disappointment with the First Vatican Council. It has 14,000...
, and there were 45 individuals (or about 2.05% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There were 108 (or about 4.92% 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. There were 6 individuals who were Buddhist
Buddhism
Buddhism is a religion and philosophy encompassing a variety of traditions, beliefs and practices, largely based on teachings attributed to Siddhartha Gautama, commonly known as the Buddha . The Buddha lived and taught in the northeastern Indian subcontinent some time between the 6th and 4th...
and 3 individuals who belonged to another church. 113 (or about 5.15% 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 55 individuals (or about 2.50% of the population) did not answer the question.
Education
In Domdidier about 744 or (33.9%) of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education, and 171 or (7.8%) 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 171 who completed tertiary schooling, 65.5% were Swiss men, 25.1% were Swiss women, 4.7% were non-Swiss men and 4.7% were non-Swiss women.
The Canton of Fribourg school system provides one year of non-obligatory Kindergarten
Kindergarten
A kindergarten is a preschool educational institution for children. The term was created by Friedrich Fröbel for the play and activity institute that he created in 1837 in Bad Blankenburg as a social experience for children for their transition from home to school...
, followed by six years of Primary school. This is followed by three years of obligatory lower Secondary school where the students are separated according to ability and aptitude. Following the lower Secondary students may attend a three or four year optional upper Secondary school. The upper Secondary school is divided into gymnasium
Gymnasium (school)
A gymnasium is a type of school providing secondary education in some parts of Europe, comparable to English grammar schools or sixth form colleges and U.S. college preparatory high schools. The word γυμνάσιον was used in Ancient Greece, meaning a locality for both physical and intellectual...
(university preparatory) and vocational programs. After they finish the upper Secondary program, students may choose to attend a Tertiary school or continue their apprenticeship
Apprenticeship
Apprenticeship is a system of training a new generation of practitioners of a skill. Apprentices or protégés build their careers from apprenticeships...
.
During the 2010-11 school year, there were a total of 715 students attending 34 classes in Domdidier. A total of 499 students from the municipality attended any school, either in the municipality or outside of it. There were 4 kindergarten classes with a total of 87 students in the municipality. The municipality had 11 primary classes and 221 students. During the same year, there were 19 lower secondary classes with a total of 407 students. There were no upper Secondary classes or vocational classes, but there were 4 upper Secondary students and 60 upper Secondary vocational students who attended classes in another municipality. The municipality had no non-university Tertiary classes, but there were 8 non-university Tertiary students and 3 specialized Tertiary students who attended classes in another municipality.
, there were 154 students in Domdidier who came from another municipality, while 67 residents attended schools outside the municipality.