[4] Confignon has an area, as of 2009[update], of 2.77 square kilometers (1.07 sq mi).

Of the rest of the land, 1.19 km2 (0.46 sq mi) or 43.0% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.03 km2 (7.4 acres) or 1.1% is either rivers or lakes.

[5] The municipality is located along the left side of the Rhone river.

The municipality of Confignon consists of the sub-sections or villages of Le Coteau, Confignon - village, Cressy - Evaux, Cressy - Sur-le-Beau, Narly - Lécherette, Plaine-de-l'Aire - Les Charrotons and Plaine-de-l'Aire - Champs-Blancs.

[10] Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks French (2,650 or 87.4%), with German being second most common (137 or 4.5%) and English being third (79 or 2.6%).

[11] As of 2008[update], the gender distribution of the population was 49.1% male and 50.9% female.

[10] The historical population is given in the following chart:[3][14] In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SP which received 19.51% of the vote.

In the federal election, a total of 1,300 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 53.1%.

[15] In the 2009 Grand Conseil election, there were a total of 2,511 registered voters of which 1,212 (48.3%) voted.

The most popular party in the municipality for this election was the Libéral with 18.9% of the ballots.

In the canton-wide election they received the highest proportion of votes.

[16] For the 2009 Conseil d'État election, there were a total of 2,513 registered voters of which 1,401 (55.8%) voted.

[10] There were 1,481 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 42.9% of the workforce.

In the tertiary sector; 53 or 10.7% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 5 or 1.0% were in the movement and storage of goods, 19 or 3.8% were in a hotel or restaurant, 14 or 2.8% were in the information industry, 16 or 3.2% were the insurance or financial industry, 23 or 4.6% were technical professionals or scientists, 167 or 33.6% were in education and 120 or 24.1% were in health care.

[10] From the 2000 census[update], 1,199 or 39.5% were Roman Catholic, while 731 or 24.1% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church.

The education system in the Canton of Geneva allows young children to attend two years of non-obligatory Kindergarten.

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.

There were 169 lower secondary students who attended school in Confignon.