Vaulion

Vaulion is a municipality in the district of Jura-Nord Vaudois in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.

[3] Vaulion has an area, as of 2009[update], of 13.2 square kilometers (5.1 sq mi).

[9] Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks French (405 or 92.7%), with German being second most common (16 or 3.7%) and Portuguese being third (6 or 1.4%).

[10] The age distribution, as of 2009[update], in Vaulion is; 43 children or 9.6% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 53 teenagers or 11.9% are between 10 and 19.

[9] The historical population is given in the following chart:[3][13] The entire urban village of Vaulion is designated as part of the Inventory of Swiss Heritage Sites.

[14] In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SVP which received 27.09% of the vote.

In the federal election, a total of 174 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 50.3%.

[9] There were 220 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 42.3% of the workforce.

The number of jobs in the primary sector was 45, of which 21 were in agriculture and 23 were in forestry or lumber production.

In the tertiary sector; 7 or 35.0% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 2 or 10.0% were in the movement and storage of goods, 9 or 45.0% were in a hotel or restaurant.

[9] From the 2000 census[update], 60 or 13.7% were Roman Catholic, while 289 or 66.1% 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.

Vaulion, Switzerland