Chardonne

Chardonne is a municipality in the district of Riviera-Pays-d'Enhaut in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.

[3] Chardonne has an area, as of 2009[update], of 10.3 square kilometers (4.0 sq mi).

[9] Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks French (2,016 or 77.5%) as their first language, with German being second most common (226 or 8.7%) and English being third (112 or 4.3%).

[10] The age distribution, as of 2009[update], in Chardonne is; 266 children or 9.7% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 306 teenagers or 11.1% are between 10 and 19.

[9] The historical population is given in the following chart:[3][13] The municipality is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site: Lavaux, Vineyard Terraces, which is also listed as a Swiss heritage site of national significance.

[14] In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SP which received 19.31% of the vote.

In the federal election, a total of 879 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 50.7%.

[9] There were 1,192 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 42.5% of the workforce.

In the tertiary sector; 19 or 5.6% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 18 or 5.3% were in the movement and storage of goods, 101 or 29.7% were in a hotel or restaurant, 9 or 2.6% were in the information industry, 4 or 1.2% were the insurance or financial industry, 11 or 3.2% were technical professionals or scientists, 25 or 7.4% were in education and 119 or 35.0% were in health care.

[9] From the 2000 census[update], 666 or 25.6% were Roman Catholic, while 1,179 or 45.3% 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.

[18] During the school year, the political district provided pre-school care for a total of 817 children of which 456 children (55.8%) received subsidized pre-school care.