Vuisternens-devant-Romont
Encyclopedia
Vuisternens-devant-Romont is a municipality
in the district of Glâne
in the canton
of Fribourg in Switzerland
.
Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 3.3% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.3%. Out of the forested land, 12.8% of the total land area is heavily forested and 2.2% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 28.3% is used for growing crops and 49.6% is pastures. All the water in the municipality is flowing water.
Most of the population speaks French
(507 or 94.4%) as their first language, Portuguese
is the second most common (15 or 2.8%) and German
is the third (11 or 2.0%).
, the population was 49.3% male and 50.7% female. The population was made up of 913 Swiss men (46.8% of the population) and 49 (2.5%) non-Swiss men. There were 934 Swiss women (47.8%) and 56 (2.9%) non-Swiss women. Of the population in the municipality, 176 or about 32.8% were born in Vuisternens-devant-Romont and lived there in 2000. There were 225 or 41.9% who were born in the same canton, while 70 or 13.0% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 48 or 8.9% were born outside of Switzerland.
, children and teenagers (0-19 years old) make up 29.8% of the population, while adults (20-64 years old) make up 56.3% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 13.9%.
, there were 253 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 241 married individuals, 32 widows or widowers and 11 individuals who are divorced.
, there were 614 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.9 persons per household. There were 49 households that consist of only one person and 18 households with five or more people. , a total of 185 apartments (86.4% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 21 apartments (9.8%) were seasonally occupied and 8 apartments (3.7%) were empty. , the construction rate of new housing units was 6.7 new units per 1000 residents.
The historical population is given in the following chart:
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the most popular party was the SVP
which received 34.9% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the CVP
(23.5%), the SP
(16.1%) and the FDP
(12.8%).
The SVP gained an additional 5.1% of the vote from the 2007 Federal election
(29.8% in 2007 vs 34.9% in 2011). The CVP retained about the same popularity (28.4% in 2007), the SPS retained about the same popularity (16.5% in 2007) and the FDP retained about the same popularity (15.5% in 2007). A total of 637 votes were cast in this election, of which 4 or 0.6% were invalid.
the total number of full-time equivalent
jobs was 411. The number of jobs in the primary sector was 165, all of which were in agriculture. The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 109 of which 59 or (54.1%) were in manufacturing and 51 (46.8%) were in construction. The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 137. In the tertiary sector; 13 or 9.5% were in the sale or repair of motor vehicles, 36 or 26.3% were in the movement and storage of goods, 13 or 9.5% were in a hotel or restaurant, 4 or 2.9% were the insurance or financial industry, 3 or 2.2% were technical professionals or scientists, 13 or 9.5% were in education and 41 or 29.9% were in health care.
, there were 54 workers who commuted into the municipality and 201 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 3.7 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering. Of the working population, 5.8% used public transportation to get to work, and 64.5% used a private car.
. Of the rest of the population, there were 20 individuals (or about 3.72% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There were 4 (or about 0.74% of the population) who were Islam
ic. 16 (or about 2.98% of the population) belonged to no church, are agnostic
or atheist
, and 19 individuals (or about 3.54% of the population) did not answer the question.
). Of the 39 who completed tertiary schooling, 48.7% were Swiss men, 28.2% were Swiss women, 12.8% were non-Swiss men.
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 204 students attending 11 classes in Vuisternens-devant-Romont. A total of 401 students from the municipality attended any school, either in the municipality or outside of it. There were 2 kindergarten classes with a total of 25 students in the municipality. The municipality had 9 primary classes and 179 students. During the same year, there were no lower secondary classes in the municipality, but 85 students attended lower secondary school in a neighboring municipality. There were no upper Secondary classes or vocational classes, but there were 28 upper Secondary students and 72 upper Secondary vocational students who attended classes in another municipality. The municipality had no non-university Tertiary classes, but there were 3 non-university Tertiary students and 8 specialized Tertiary students who attended classes in another municipality.
, there were 44 students in Vuisternens-devant-Romont who came from another municipality, while 50 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 Glâne
Glâne (district)
Glâne District is a one of seven districts in the Canton of Fribourg in Switzerland. It has a population of .-Mergers and name changes:...
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 Fribourg 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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Geography
Vuisternens-devant-Romont has an area, , of 24.1 square kilometre. Of this area, 18.88 square kilometre or 78.5% is used for agricultural purposes, while 3.63 square kilometre or 15.1% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 1.47 square kilometre or 6.1% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.05 km² (12.4 acre) or 0.2% is either rivers or lakes and 0.06 km² (14.8 acre) or 0.2% is unproductive land.Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 3.3% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.3%. Out of the forested land, 12.8% of the total land area is heavily forested and 2.2% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 28.3% is used for growing crops and 49.6% is pastures. All the water in the municipality is flowing water.
Demographics
Vuisternens-devant-Romont has a population of . , 4.3% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (2000–2010) the population has changed at a rate of 8.2%. Migration accounted for 2.4%, while births and deaths accounted for 4.6%.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...
(507 or 94.4%) as their first language, 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 second most common (15 or 2.8%) 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 (11 or 2.0%).
, the population was 49.3% male and 50.7% female. The population was made up of 913 Swiss men (46.8% of the population) and 49 (2.5%) non-Swiss men. There were 934 Swiss women (47.8%) and 56 (2.9%) non-Swiss women. Of the population in the municipality, 176 or about 32.8% were born in Vuisternens-devant-Romont and lived there in 2000. There were 225 or 41.9% who were born in the same canton, while 70 or 13.0% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 48 or 8.9% were born outside of Switzerland.
, children and teenagers (0-19 years old) make up 29.8% of the population, while adults (20-64 years old) make up 56.3% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 13.9%.
, there were 253 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 241 married individuals, 32 widows or widowers and 11 individuals who are divorced.
, there were 614 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.9 persons per household. There were 49 households that consist of only one person and 18 households with five or more people. , a total of 185 apartments (86.4% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 21 apartments (9.8%) were seasonally occupied and 8 apartments (3.7%) were empty. , the construction rate of new housing units was 6.7 new units per 1000 residents.
The historical population is given in the following chart:
Heritage sites of national significance
The Farm House at Route De Villariaz 11 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 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 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 34.9% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were 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...
(23.5%), the SP
Social Democratic Party of Switzerland
The Social Democratic Party of Switzerland is the largest centre-left political party in Switzerland....
(16.1%) 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....
(12.8%).
The SVP gained an additional 5.1% of the vote from 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...
(29.8% in 2007 vs 34.9% in 2011). The CVP retained about the same popularity (28.4% in 2007), the SPS retained about the same popularity (16.5% in 2007) and the FDP retained about the same popularity (15.5% in 2007). A total of 637 votes were cast in this election, of which 4 or 0.6% were invalid.
Economy
, Vuisternens-devant-Romont had an unemployment rate of 1.5%. , there were 218 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 95 businesses involved in this sector. 122 people were employed in the secondary sector and there were 25 businesses in this sector. 187 people were employed in the tertiary sector, with 30 businesses in this sector. There were 277 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 44.8% 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 411. The number of jobs in the primary sector was 165, all of which were in agriculture. The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 109 of which 59 or (54.1%) were in manufacturing and 51 (46.8%) were in construction. The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 137. In the tertiary sector; 13 or 9.5% were in the sale or repair of motor vehicles, 36 or 26.3% were in the movement and storage of goods, 13 or 9.5% were in a hotel or restaurant, 4 or 2.9% were the insurance or financial industry, 3 or 2.2% were technical professionals or scientists, 13 or 9.5% were in education and 41 or 29.9% were in health care.
, there were 54 workers who commuted into the municipality and 201 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 3.7 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering. Of the working population, 5.8% used public transportation to get to work, and 64.5% used a private car.
Religion
From the , 480 or 89.4% were Roman Catholic, while 8 or 1.5% 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 20 individuals (or about 3.72% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There were 4 (or about 0.74% 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. 16 (or about 2.98% 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 19 individuals (or about 3.54% of the population) did not answer the question.
Education
In Vuisternens-devant-Romont about 164 or (30.5%) of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education, and 39 or (7.3%) 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 39 who completed tertiary schooling, 48.7% were Swiss men, 28.2% were Swiss women, 12.8% were non-Swiss men.
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...
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During the 2010-11 school year, there were a total of 204 students attending 11 classes in Vuisternens-devant-Romont. A total of 401 students from the municipality attended any school, either in the municipality or outside of it. There were 2 kindergarten classes with a total of 25 students in the municipality. The municipality had 9 primary classes and 179 students. During the same year, there were no lower secondary classes in the municipality, but 85 students attended lower secondary school in a neighboring municipality. There were no upper Secondary classes or vocational classes, but there were 28 upper Secondary students and 72 upper Secondary vocational students who attended classes in another municipality. The municipality had no non-university Tertiary classes, but there were 3 non-university Tertiary students and 8 specialized Tertiary students who attended classes in another municipality.
, there were 44 students in Vuisternens-devant-Romont who came from another municipality, while 50 residents attended schools outside the municipality.