Vulliens

Vulliens is a municipality in the district of Broye-Vully in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.

Vulliens has an area, as of 2009[update], of 6.6 square kilometers (2.5 sq mi).

Of the rest of the land, 0.36 km2 (0.14 sq mi) or 5.4% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.07 km2 (17 acres) or 1.1% is either rivers or lakes.

[4] The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Gules, a Bar Or between three Roses of the same two and one.

[8] Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks French (414 or 94.5%), with German being second most common (15 or 3.4%) and Italian being third (2 or 0.5%).

[9] The age distribution, as of 2009[update], in Vulliens is; 60 children or 13.8% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 68 teenagers or 15.6% are between 10 and 19.

[8] The historical population is given in the following chart:[12] In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SVP which received 38.91% of the vote.

[8] There were 213 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 42.3% of the workforce.

In the tertiary sector; 7 or 50.0% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 1 was in the movement and storage of goods, 1 was in the information industry, 1 was in education.

[8] From the 2000 census[update], 54 or 12.3% were Roman Catholic, while 278 or 63.5% 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.