Mauborget (French pronunciation: [mobɔʁʒɛ] ⓘ) is a municipality in the district of Jura-Nord Vaudois in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.
[3] Mauborget has an area, as of 2009[update], of 5.51 square kilometers (2.13 sq mi).
[5] The municipality is located between Chasseron mountain and Mont Aubert, on the road between Grandson to Môtiers.
The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Pally of Six Argent and Azure, overall a Bend semi-raguly Gules.
[9] Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks French (79 or 92.9%), with German being second most common (4 or 4.7%) and English being third (1 or 1.2%).
[8] The age distribution, as of 2009[update], in Mauborget is; 7 children or 8.3% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 11 teenagers or 13.1% are between 10 and 19.
Of the rest of the households, there are 12 married couples without children, 11 married couples with children[10] In 2000[update] there were 66 single-family homes (or 79.5% of the total) out of a total of 83 inhabited buildings.
[9] The historical population is given in the following chart:[3][13] In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SVP which received 42.29% of the vote.
In the federal election, a total of 35 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 53.0%.
[9] There were 46 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 37.0% of the workforce.
[9] From the 2000 census[update], 18 or 21.2% were Roman Catholic, while 44 or 51.8% 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] Mauborget features in the story of the discovery of the dwarf rose breeding stock.