Poliez-le-Grand is a former municipality in the district of Gros-de-Vaud in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.

[2] Poliez-le-Grand has an area, as of 2009[update], of 5.07 square kilometers (1.96 sq mi).

Of the rest of the land, 0.43 km2 (0.17 sq mi) or 8.5% is settled (buildings or roads).

The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Bendy wavy of Eight Gules and Argent.

[6] Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks French (497 or 94.1%), with German being second most common (20 or 3.8%) and Spanish being third (4 or 0.8%).

[7] The age distribution, as of 2009[update], in Poliez-le-Grand is; 150 children or 21.7% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 106 teenagers or 15.3% are between 10 and 19.

[10] About 57.7% of the total households were owner occupied, or in other words did not pay rent (though they may have a mortgage or a rent-to-own agreement).

[6] The historical population is given in the following chart:[2][13] In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SVP which received 35.73% of the vote.

In the federal election, a total of 177 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 42.3%.

[14] From the 2000 census[update], 186 or 35.2% were Roman Catholic, while 265 or 50.2% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church.

[6] There were 288 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 44.8% of the workforce.

In 2008[update] the total number of full-time equivalent jobs was 133.

In the tertiary sector; 3 or 8.6% were in the sale or repair of motor vehicles, 2 or 5.7% were in the movement and storage of goods, 2 or 5.7% were in a hotel or restaurant, 7 or 20.0% were in the information industry, 1 was the insurance or financial industry, 6 or 17.1% were technical professionals or scientists, 5 or 14.3% were in education and 1 was in health care.

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 296 children of which 96 children (32.4%) received subsidized pre-school care.

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