Épalinges (French pronunciation: [epalɛ̃ʒ] ⓘ; Arpitan: Epalinjo) is a municipality in the district of Lausanne in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.

[3] Épalinges has an area, as of 2009[update], of 4.57 square kilometres (1.76 sq mi).

Of the rest of the land, 2.59 km2 (1.00 sq mi) or 56.7% is settled (buildings or roads).

It consists of the villages of Épalinges-Village, Les Croisettes, La Croix-Blanche and multiple hamlets.

The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Per fess Argent and Gules, a Gander Sable lined of the first and beaked of the second overall.

[9] Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks French (6,386 or 85.0%), with German being second most common (410 or 5.5%) and English being third (149 or 2.0%).

[8] The age distribution, as of 2009[update], in Épalinges is; 953 children or 11.4% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 1,072 teenagers or 12.8% are between 10 and 19.

[9] The historical population is given in the following chart:[3][13] In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SP which received 22.87% of the vote.

In the federal election, a total of 2,387 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 49.5%.

[14] Épalinges hosts the Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research (ISREC), a private not-for-profit foundation founded in 1964, as well as the Health Sciences eTraining Foundation (HSeT), a non-profit organization dedicated to web-based learning and teaching activities in the field of health sciences.

[9] There were 3,781 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 45.8% of the workforce.

In the tertiary sector; 255 or 18.3% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 35 or 2.5% were in the movement and storage of goods, 70 or 5.0% were in a hotel or restaurant, 24 or 1.7% were in the information industry, 18 or 1.3% were the insurance or financial industry, 416 or 29.9% were technical professionals or scientists, 137 or 9.9% were in education and 278 or 20.0% were in health care.

[9] From the 2000 census[update], 2,666 or 35.5% were Roman Catholic, while 2,845 or 37.9% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church.

In the Vaud cantonal school system, two years of non-obligatory pre-school are provided by the political districts.

The canton's primary school program requires students to attend for four years.

[16] The General Secretariat of the European Golf Association (EGA) is located in Épalinges.

Golf Club de Lausanne, the site of 1982 Eisenhower Trophy, 1997 Ladies Swiss Open and several Swiss Amateur Championships, is also partly located in the municipality.