Bullet (French pronunciation: [bylɛ] ⓘ) is a municipality in the district of Jura-Nord Vaudois in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.
[3] Bullet has an area, as of 2009[update], of 16.83 square kilometres (6.50 sq mi).
The town lies on the end moraine of the ice age era Rhone glacier.
The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Per fess Gules and Sable, overall a rock Or.
[9] Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks French (482 or 92.3%), with German being second most common (30 or 5.7%) and Italian being third (4 or 0.8%).
[8] The age distribution, as of 2009[update], in Bullet is; 57 children or 9.7% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 59 teenagers or 10.1% are between 10 and 19.
[9] The historical population is given in the following chart:[3][13] Climate in this area has mild differences between highs and lows, and there is adequate rainfall year-round.
[14] In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SVP which received 31.54% of the vote.
In the federal election, a total of 204 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 46.7%.
[9] There were 244 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 43.4% of the workforce.
The number of jobs in the primary sector was 28, of which 22 were in agriculture and 6 were in forestry or lumber production.
In the tertiary sector; 2 or 2.4% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 1 was in the movement and storage of goods, 51 or 62.2% were in a hotel or restaurant, 2 or 2.4% were the insurance or financial industry, 4 or 4.9% were in education and 18 or 22.0% were in health care.
[9] From the 2000 census[update], 67 or 12.8% were Roman Catholic, while 398 or 76.2% 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.
[20] During the school year, the political district provided pre-school care for a total of 578 children of which 359 children (62.1%) received subsidized pre-school care.
The canton's primary school program requires students to attend for four years.