Corcelles-près-Payerne is a municipality in the district of Broye-Vully in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.

[3] Corcelles-près-Payerne has an area, as of 2009[update], of 12.13 square kilometers (4.68 sq mi).

Of the rest of the land, 1.32 km2 (0.51 sq mi) or 10.9% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.2 km2 (0.077 sq mi) or 1.6% is either rivers or lakes and 0.08 km2 (20 acres) or 0.7% is unproductive land.

The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Per pale Argent and Gules, overall a tobacco plant proper.

[9] Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks French (1,464 or 89.1%), with German being second most common (90 or 5.5%) and Portuguese being third (25 or 1.5%).

[8] The age distribution, as of 2009[update], in Corcelles-près-Payerne is; 227 children or 12.0% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 252 teenagers or 13.3% 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 FDP which received 25.49% of the vote.

In the federal election, a total of 618 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 50.6%.

[9] There were 855 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 40.0% of the workforce.

In 2008[update] the total number of full-time equivalent jobs was 424.

The number of jobs in the primary sector was 91, of which 88 were in agriculture and 3 were in forestry or lumber production.

In the tertiary sector; 71 or 62.3% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 4 or 3.5% were in the movement and storage of goods, 13 or 11.4% were in a hotel or restaurant, 1 was in the information industry, 4 or 3.5% were technical professionals or scientists, 10 or 8.8% were in education and 2 or 1.8% were in health care.

[9] From the 2000 census[update], 502 or 30.5% were Roman Catholic, while 897 or 54.6% 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.

[17] During the school year, the political district provided pre-school care for a total of 155 children of which 83 children (53.5%) received subsidized pre-school care.

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