Oron-la-Ville
Encyclopedia
Oron-la-Ville is a municipality
in the district of Lavaux-Oron in the canton
of Vaud
in Switzerland
.
Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 11.9% and transportation infrastructure made up 4.8%. Out of the forested land, all of the forested land area is covered with heavy forests. Of the agricultural land, 50.6% is used for growing crops and 13.2% is pastures, while 2.6% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is flowing water.
The municipality was part of the Oron District until it was dissolved on 31 August 2006, and Oron-la-Ville became part of the new district of Lavaux-Oron.
The municipality is located along the right bank of the Broye in the eastern part of the Jorat region
.
The municipalities of Bussigny-sur-Oron
, Châtillens
, Chesalles-sur-Oron
, Ecoteaux
, Oron-la-Ville, Oron-le-Châtel
, Palézieux
, Les Tavernes
, Les Thioleyres
and Vuibroye
are seeking approval from the Canton to merge on 1 January 2012 into the new municipality of Oron.
of the municipal coat of arms
is Gules, a Crescent increscent Or.
Most of the population speaks French
(1,105 or 90.3%), with German
being second most common (39 or 3.2%) and Portuguese
being third (29 or 2.4%). There are 16 people who speak Italian
.
The age distribution, , in Oron-la-Ville is; 168 children or 12.0% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 180 teenagers or 12.9% are between 10 and 19. Of the adult population, 152 people or 10.9% of the population are between 20 and 29 years old. 182 people or 13.0% are between 30 and 39, 214 people or 15.3% are between 40 and 49, and 157 people or 11.2% are between 50 and 59. The senior population distribution is 157 people or 11.2% of the population are between 60 and 69 years old, 91 people or 6.5% are between 70 and 79, there are 73 people or 5.2% who are between 80 and 89, and there are 22 people or 1.6% who are 90 and older.
, there were 490 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 546 married individuals, 119 widows or widowers and 69 individuals who are divorced.
the average number of residents per living room was 0.58 which is about equal to the cantonal average of 0.61 per room. In this case, a room is defined as space of a housing unit of at least 4 m² (43 sq ft) as normal bedrooms, dining rooms, living rooms, kitchens and habitable cellars and attics. About 37.2% of the total households were owner occupied, or in other words did not pay rent (though they may have a mortgage
or a rent-to-own agreement).
, there were 494 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.3 persons per household. There were 167 households that consist of only one person and 28 households with five or more people. Out of a total of 507 households that answered this question, 32.9% were households made up of just one person. Of the rest of the households, there are 135 married couples without children, 152 married couples with children There were 32 single parents with a child or children. There were 8 households that were made up of unrelated people and 13 households that were made up of some sort of institution or another collective housing.
there were 92 single family homes (or 40.0% of the total) out of a total of 230 inhabited buildings. There were 65 multi-family buildings (28.3%), along with 54 multi-purpose buildings that were mostly used for housing (23.5%) and 19 other use buildings (commercial or industrial) that also had some housing (8.3%).
, a total of 471 apartments (88.2% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 37 apartments (6.9%) were seasonally occupied and 26 apartments (4.9%) were empty. , the construction rate of new housing units was 2.9 new units per 1000 residents. The vacancy rate for the municipality, , was 0.49%.
The historical population is given in the following chart:
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the most popular party was the SVP
which received 29.15% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SP
(18.01%), the Green Party
(16.46%) and the FDP
(12.61%). In the federal election, a total of 338 votes were cast, and the voter turnout
was 94.4%.
the total number of full-time equivalent
jobs was 633. The number of jobs in the primary sector was 12, of which 10 were in agriculture and 2 were in forestry or lumber production. The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 168 of which 128 or (76.2%) were in manufacturing and 41 (24.4%) were in construction. The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 453. In the tertiary sector; 173 or 38.2% were in the sale or repair of motor vehicles, 23 or 5.1% were in the movement and storage of goods, 15 or 3.3% were in a hotel or restaurant, 1 was in the information industry, 12 or 2.6% were the insurance or financial industry, 18 or 4.0% were technical professionals or scientists, 41 or 9.1% were in education and 116 or 25.6% were in health care.
, there were 515 workers who commuted into the municipality and 330 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net importer of workers, with about 1.6 workers entering the municipality for every one leaving. Of the working population, 11.3% used public transportation to get to work, and 60.4% used a private car.
. Of the rest of the population, there were 8 members of an Orthodox church
(or about 0.65% of the population), and there were 152 individuals (or about 12.42% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There were 26 (or about 2.12% of the population) who were Islam
ic. There were 2 individuals who were Buddhist
, 2 individuals who were Hindu
and 1 individual who belonged to another church. 113 (or about 9.23% of the population) belonged to no church, are agnostic
or atheist
, and 58 individuals (or about 4.74% of the population) did not answer the question.
). Of the 123 who completed tertiary schooling, 61.8% were Swiss men, 22.8% were Swiss women, 8.1% were non-Swiss men and 7.3% were non-Swiss women.
In the 2009/2010 school year there were a total of 182 students in the Oron-la-Ville school district. In the Vaud cantonal school system, two years of non-obligatory pre-school are provided by the political districts. 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 primary school program requires students to attend for four years. There were 92 students in the municipal primary school program. The obligatory lower secondary school program lasts for six years and there were 90 students in those schools.
, there were 203 students in Oron-la-Ville who came from another municipality, while 84 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 Lavaux-Oron 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 Vaud
Vaud
Vaud is one of the 26 cantons of Switzerland and is located in Romandy, the French-speaking southwestern part of the country. The capital is Lausanne. The name of the Canton in Switzerland's other languages are Vaud in Italian , Waadt in German , and Vad in Romansh.-History:Along the lakes,...
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....
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History
Oron-la-Ville is first mentioned about 280 as Uromago. In 1018 it was mentioned as Auronum.Geography
Oron-la-Ville has an area, , of 3.1 square kilometre. Of this area, 2.06 square kilometre or 66.5% is used for agricultural purposes, while 0.39 square kilometre or 12.6% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 0.59 square kilometre or 19.0% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.02 km² (4.9 acre) or 0.6% is either rivers or lakes and 0.01 km² (2.5 acre) or 0.3% is unproductive land.Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 11.9% and transportation infrastructure made up 4.8%. Out of the forested land, all of the forested land area is covered with heavy forests. Of the agricultural land, 50.6% is used for growing crops and 13.2% is pastures, while 2.6% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is flowing water.
The municipality was part of the Oron District until it was dissolved on 31 August 2006, and Oron-la-Ville became part of the new district of Lavaux-Oron.
The municipality is located along the right bank of the Broye in the eastern part of the Jorat region
Jorat (Switzerland)
The Jorat is the area of the Canton of Vaud located between the Gros-de-Vaud, West and the Broye, East.-Geography:It is a mountain range that stretches from above Lausanne at the South and stretches toward Payerne at the North...
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The municipalities of Bussigny-sur-Oron
Bussigny-sur-Oron
Bussigny-sur-Oron is a municipality in the district of Lavaux-Oron of the Canton of Vaud, Switzerland.-History:Bussigny-sur-Oron is first mentioned in 1433 as Bussignye. In 1517 it was mentioned in a land registry of Count Jean II de Gruyère....
, Châtillens
Châtillens
Châtillens is a municipality in the district of Lavaux-Oron in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.-Geography:Châtillens has an area, , of . Of this area, or 61.1% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 27.5% is forested...
, Chesalles-sur-Oron
Chesalles-sur-Oron
Chesalles-sur-Oron is a municipality in the district of Lavaux-Oron in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.-Geography:Chesalles-sur-Oron has an area, , of . Of this area, or 73.5% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 18.0% is forested...
, Ecoteaux
Ecoteaux
Ecoteaux is a municipality in the district of Lavaux-Oron in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.-Geography:Ecoteaux has an area, , of . Of this area, or 77.2% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 15.2% is forested...
, Oron-la-Ville, Oron-le-Châtel
Oron-le-Châtel
Oron-le-Châtel is a municipality in the district of Lavaux-Oron in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.-Geography:Oron-le-Châtel has an area, , of . Of this area, or 54.0% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 30.2% is forested...
, Palézieux
Palézieux
Palézieux is a municipality in the district of Lavaux-Oron in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.-History:Palézieux is first mentioned in 1134 as de Palaisol....
, Les Tavernes
Les Tavernes
Les Tavernes is a municipality in the district of Lavaux-Oron in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.-Geography:Les Tavernes has an area, , of . Of this area, or 72.1% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 22.3% is forested...
, Les Thioleyres
Les Thioleyres
Les Thioleyres is a municipality in the district of Lavaux-Oron in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.-Geography:Les Thioleyres has an area, , of . Of this area, or 86.0% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 7.3% is forested...
and Vuibroye
Vuibroye
Vuibroye is a municipality in the district of Lavaux-Oron in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.-Geography:Vuibroye has an area, , of . Of this area, or 82.9% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 10.7% is forested...
are seeking approval from the Canton to merge on 1 January 2012 into the new municipality of Oron.
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 Gules, a Crescent increscent Or.
Demographics
Oron-la-Ville has a population of . , 19.7% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1999–2009 ) the population has changed at a rate of 19.3%. It has changed at a rate of 26.3% due to migration and at a rate of -5.9% 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...
(1,105 or 90.3%), with 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....
being second most common (39 or 3.2%) 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...
being third (29 or 2.4%). There are 16 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...
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The age distribution, , in Oron-la-Ville is; 168 children or 12.0% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 180 teenagers or 12.9% are between 10 and 19. Of the adult population, 152 people or 10.9% of the population are between 20 and 29 years old. 182 people or 13.0% are between 30 and 39, 214 people or 15.3% are between 40 and 49, and 157 people or 11.2% are between 50 and 59. The senior population distribution is 157 people or 11.2% of the population are between 60 and 69 years old, 91 people or 6.5% are between 70 and 79, there are 73 people or 5.2% who are between 80 and 89, and there are 22 people or 1.6% who are 90 and older.
, there were 490 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 546 married individuals, 119 widows or widowers and 69 individuals who are divorced.
the average number of residents per living room was 0.58 which is about equal to the cantonal average of 0.61 per room. In this case, a room is defined as space of a housing unit of at least 4 m² (43 sq ft) as normal bedrooms, dining rooms, living rooms, kitchens and habitable cellars and attics. About 37.2% of the total households were owner occupied, or in other words did not pay rent (though they may have a mortgage
Mortgage loan
A mortgage loan is a loan secured by real property through the use of a mortgage note which evidences the existence of the loan and the encumbrance of that realty through the granting of a mortgage which secures the loan...
or a rent-to-own agreement).
, there were 494 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.3 persons per household. There were 167 households that consist of only one person and 28 households with five or more people. Out of a total of 507 households that answered this question, 32.9% were households made up of just one person. Of the rest of the households, there are 135 married couples without children, 152 married couples with children There were 32 single parents with a child or children. There were 8 households that were made up of unrelated people and 13 households that were made up of some sort of institution or another collective housing.
there were 92 single family homes (or 40.0% of the total) out of a total of 230 inhabited buildings. There were 65 multi-family buildings (28.3%), along with 54 multi-purpose buildings that were mostly used for housing (23.5%) and 19 other use buildings (commercial or industrial) that also had some housing (8.3%).
, a total of 471 apartments (88.2% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 37 apartments (6.9%) were seasonally occupied and 26 apartments (4.9%) were empty. , the construction rate of new housing units was 2.9 new units per 1000 residents. The vacancy rate for the municipality, , was 0.49%.
The historical population is given in the following chart:
Heritage sites of national significance
The Temple of Oron-la-Ville is listed as a Swiss heritage site of national significanceSwiss Inventory of Cultural Property of National and Regional Significance
The Swiss Inventory of Cultural Property of National and Regional Significance is a register of some 8,300 items of cultural property in Switzerland...
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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 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...
which received 29.15% 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....
(18.01%), the Green Party
Green Party of Switzerland
The Green Party of Switzerland is the fifth-largest party in the National Council of Switzerland, and the largest party that is not represented on the Federal Council.-History:...
(16.46%) and 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....
(12.61%). In the federal election, a total of 338 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 94.4%.
Economy
, Oron-la-Ville had an unemployment rate of 5%. , there were 15 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 6 businesses involved in this sector. 178 people were employed in the secondary sector and there were 15 businesses in this sector. 595 people were employed in the tertiary sector, with 83 businesses in this sector. There were 568 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 43.8% 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 633. The number of jobs in the primary sector was 12, of which 10 were in agriculture and 2 were in forestry or lumber production. The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 168 of which 128 or (76.2%) were in manufacturing and 41 (24.4%) were in construction. The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 453. In the tertiary sector; 173 or 38.2% were in the sale or repair of motor vehicles, 23 or 5.1% were in the movement and storage of goods, 15 or 3.3% were in a hotel or restaurant, 1 was in the information industry, 12 or 2.6% were the insurance or financial industry, 18 or 4.0% were technical professionals or scientists, 41 or 9.1% were in education and 116 or 25.6% were in health care.
, there were 515 workers who commuted into the municipality and 330 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net importer of workers, with about 1.6 workers entering the municipality for every one leaving. Of the working population, 11.3% used public transportation to get to work, and 60.4% used a private car.
Religion
From the , 384 or 31.4% were Roman Catholic, while 553 or 45.2% 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 8 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 0.65% of the population), and there were 152 individuals (or about 12.42% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There were 26 (or about 2.12% 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 2 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...
, 2 individuals who were Hindu
Hinduism
Hinduism is the predominant and indigenous religious tradition of the Indian Subcontinent. Hinduism is known to its followers as , amongst many other expressions...
and 1 individual who belonged to another church. 113 (or about 9.23% 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 58 individuals (or about 4.74% of the population) did not answer the question.
Education
In Oron-la-Ville about 452 or (36.9%) of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education, and 123 or (10.0%) 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 123 who completed tertiary schooling, 61.8% were Swiss men, 22.8% were Swiss women, 8.1% were non-Swiss men and 7.3% were non-Swiss women.
In the 2009/2010 school year there were a total of 182 students in the Oron-la-Ville school district. In the Vaud cantonal school system, two years of non-obligatory pre-school are provided by the political districts. 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 primary school program requires students to attend for four years. There were 92 students in the municipal primary school program. The obligatory lower secondary school program lasts for six years and there were 90 students in those schools.
, there were 203 students in Oron-la-Ville who came from another municipality, while 84 residents attended schools outside the municipality.