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 specially 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

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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'État 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.