Aire-la-Ville is a municipality in the canton of Geneva in Switzerland.
History
Aire-la-Ville is first mentioned in 1429 as Aeria Villa. In 1666 it was mentioned as Haire-la-Ville.
Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 8.2% and transportation infrastructure made up 5.5%. Power and water infrastructure as well as other special developed areas made up 4.8% of the area Out of the forested land, 21.2% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.7% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 35.8% is used for growing crops and 4.4% is pastures. All the water in the municipality is flowing water.
Demographics
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|+ Largest groups of foreign residents 2013
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!Nationality || Amount || % total<br />(population)
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|||54||4.8
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|||26||2.3
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|||22||2.0
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|||17||1.5
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|||13||1.2
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|||8||0.7
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|||8||0.7
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|||6||0.5
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|||5||0.4
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|||4||0.3
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Aire-la-Ville has a population () of . , 20.3% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1999–2009 ) the population has changed at a rate of 54%. It has changed at a rate of 44.8% due to migration and at a rate of 9.7% due to births and deaths.
Most of the population () speaks French (625 or 84.9%), with English being second most common (27 or 3.7%) and German being third (25 or 3.4%). There are 2 people who speak Romansh. Of the population in the municipality 174 or about 23.6% were born in Aire-la-Ville and lived there in 2000. There were 252 or 34.2% who were born in the same canton, while 104 or 14.1% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 171 or 23.2% were born outside of Switzerland.
, there were 261 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.7 persons per household.
there were 270 apartments in the municipality. The most common apartment size was 4 rooms of which there were 91. There were 7 single room apartments and 92 apartments with five or more rooms. Of these apartments, a total of 250 apartments (92.6% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 16 apartments (5.9%) were seasonally occupied and 4 apartments (1.5%) were empty.
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Politics
In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SVP which received 25.22% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the CVP (19.71%), the Green Party (13.08%) and the FDP (11.88%). In the federal election, a total of 333 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 55.8%.
In the 2009 Grand Conseil election, there were a total of 656 registered voters of which 310 (47.3%) voted. The most popular party in the municipality for this election was the MCG with 17.0% of the ballots. In the canton-wide election they received the third highest proportion of votes. The second most popular party was the PDC (with 15.4%), they were fifth in the canton-wide election, while the third most popular party was the Les Radicaux (with 13.1%), they were sixth in the canton-wide election.
For the 2009 Conseil d'État election, there were a total of 660 registered voters of which 383 (58.0%) voted.
, there were 189 workers who commuted into the municipality and 322 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 1.7 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering. About 2.1% of the workforce coming into Aire-la-Ville are coming from outside Switzerland. Of the working population, 10.7% used public transportation to get to work, and 72.7% used a private car. During that school year, there were 32 children who were too young for kindergarten. The canton's school system provides two years of non-mandatory kindergarten and requires students to attend six years of primary school, with some of the children attending smaller, specialized classes. In Aire-la-Ville there were 32 students in kindergarten or primary school and 6 students were in the special, smaller classes. The secondary school program consists of three lower, obligatory years of schooling, followed by three to five years of optional, advanced schools. There were 32 lower secondary students who attended school in Aire-la-Ville. There were 70 upper secondary students from the municipality along with 6 students who were in a professional, non-university track program. An additional 19 students attended a private school.
, there were 3 students in Aire-la-Ville who came from another municipality, while 82 residents attended schools outside the municipality.