Vufflens-la-Ville

Vufflens-la-Ville is a municipality of the canton of Vaud in Switzerland, located in the district of Gros-de-Vaud.

Vufflens-la-Ville has an area, as of 2009[update], of 5.38 square kilometers (2.08 sq mi).

Twenty-one percent of the total land area is heavily forested and 2% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees.

Gules, a Key Argent; overall on a Bend Azure a Lion passant Or.

[8] Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks French (900 or 90.1%), with German being second most common (52 or 5.2%) and Italian being third (17 or 1.7%).

[7] The age distribution, as of 2009[update], in Vufflens-la-Ville is; 140 children or 12.4% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 108 teenagers or 9.6% are between 10 and 19.

[8] The historical population is given in the following chart:[12] The entire village of Vufflens-la-Ville is designated as part of the Inventory of Swiss Heritage Sites.

[13] In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SVP which received 25.46% of the vote.

In the federal election, a total of 366 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 48.9%.

[8] There were 561 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 44.2% of the workforce.

In the tertiary sector; 13 or 15.7% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 2 or 2.4% were in the movement and storage of goods, 5 or 6.0% were in a hotel or restaurant, 5 or 6.0% were in the information industry, 7 or 8.4% were technical professionals or scientists, 6 or 7.2% were in education and 5 or 6.0% were in health care.

[8] From the 2000 census[update], 283 or 28.3% were Roman Catholic, while 527 or 52.8% 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.

[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.

[16] The municipality has a railway station, Vufflens-la-Ville, on the Jura Foot and Simplon lines.

Aerial view (1964)