Vétroz

Vétroz is a municipality in the district of Conthey in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.

Vétroz has an area, as of 2009[update], of 10.5 square kilometers (4.1 sq mi).

[4] The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Gules, a Vine Branch Vert fructed Or, in Chief Azure between two Mullets of Five Or a Cross pommy of the same.

[8] Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks French (3,253 or 88.1%) as their first language, German is the second most common (121 or 3.3%) and Portuguese is the third (117 or 3.2%).

In the Elections of 24 October 2012 the following persons were elected to the Conseil Municipal: André Fontannaz (CDP), Stéphane Germanier (CDP), Véronique Papilloud-Sauthier (CDP), Michel Huser (FDP) and Oliver Cottagnoud (Alternative vétrozaine or Alternative Left).

[13] In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the FDP which received 38.03% of the vote.

In the federal election, a total of 1,749 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 67.1%.

[15] In the 2007 Swiss Council of States election a total of 1,736 votes were cast, of which 90 or about 5.2% were invalid.

[8] There were 1,766 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 41.6% of the workforce.

In the tertiary sector; 124 or 23.3% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 9 or 1.7% were in the movement and storage of goods, 66 or 12.4% were in a hotel or restaurant, 9 or 1.7% were in the information industry, 5 or 0.9% were the insurance or financial industry, 19 or 3.6% were technical professionals or scientists, 36 or 6.8% were in education and 121 or 22.7% were in health care.

[8] From the 2000 census[update], 3,098 or 83.9% were Roman Catholic, while 155 or 4.2% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church.

The library has (as of 2008[update]) 8,259 books or other media, and loaned out 20,575 items in the same year.

It was open a total of 127 days with average of 7 hours per week during that year.

Aerial view (1949)