Saint-Cergue

Saint-Cergue is a municipality in the district of Nyon in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.

[3] Saint-Cergue has an area, as of 2009[update], of 24.3 square kilometers (9.4 sq mi).

[5] The municipality is located in the Nyon district, on the road over the Col de la Givrine.

The town consists of the village of Saint-Cergue and of the part of the hamlet of La Cure which since the treaty of Dappes of 1862 belongs to Switzerland and straddles the Swiss-French border.

The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Per pale Or and Gules, dexter a tower Sable lined Argent crowned with a Mullet of Five Argent, sinister a Pine-tree vert, both on overall a Mount Vert.

[10] The age distribution, as of 2009[update], in Saint-Cergue is; 158 children or 8.1% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 259 teenagers or 13.3% are between 10 and 19.

[9] The historical population is given in the following chart:[3][13] Saint-Cergue is twinned with the town of Ferrières, Belgium.

[14] In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SVP which received 25.92% of the vote.

[9] There were 816 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 40.4% of the workforce.

The number of jobs in the primary sector was 10, of which were in agriculture and 10 were in forestry or lumber production.

In the tertiary sector; 37 or 21.4% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 17 or 9.8% were in the movement and storage of goods, 34 or 19.7% were in a hotel or restaurant, 4 or 2.3% were in the information industry, 1 was the insurance or financial industry, 10 or 5.8% were technical professionals or scientists, 37 or 21.4% were in education and 9 or 5.2% were in health care.

From the 2000 census[update], 487 or 30.4% were Roman Catholic, while 491 or 30.7% 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.