Vico Morcote is a municipality in the district of Lugano in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.

Vico Morcote has an area, as of 1997[update], of 1.91 square kilometers (0.74 sq mi).

[3] Located near Lake Lugano and situated roughly one kilometer uphill from the larger village of Morcote, Vico Morcote's distance from both Morcote and Lugano (10 km (6.2 mi) east) have left it in a near preserved state as a small hillside village typical of the area.

The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Azure a spring argent issuing from a base embelif vert and a goat of the second drinking from it.

Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks Italian (66.4%), with German being second most common (22.8%) and French being third (5.2%).

The total Swiss population change in 2008 (from all sources, including moves across municipal borders) was an increase of 2 and the non-Swiss population change was an increase of 16 people.

[6] The age distribution, as of 2009[update], in Vico Morcote is; 33 children or 9.8% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 25 teenagers or 7.4% are between 10 and 19.

[7] The historical population is given in the following chart:[12] In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the FDP which received 35.91% of the vote.

In the federal election, a total of 80 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 46.0%.

[13] In the 2007[update] Gran Consiglio election, there were a total of 176 registered voters in Vico Morcote, of which 102 or 58.0% voted.

[7] There were 118 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 42.4% of the workforce.

From the 2000 census[update], 174 or 69.6% were Roman Catholic, while 36 or 14.4% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church.

[8] Vico Morcote is the birthplace of Iohannes, Roman legionary father of pope Anicetus, whose mother was Syrian from Emesa.

In the lower secondary school system, students either attend a two-year middle school followed by a two-year pre-apprenticeship or they attend a four-year program to prepare for higher education.

The upper secondary school includes several options, but at the end of the upper secondary program, a student will be prepared to enter a trade or to continue on to a university or college.