Anières is a municipality in the canton of Geneva in Switzerland.
The inhabitants are known as the "Aniérois". It is known for having some of the most expensive housing in the Geneva area.
History
Anières is first mentioned in 1179 as [Guillelmus] dasneres.
Geography
Anières has an area, , of . Of this area, or 63.2% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 4.7% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 31.1% is settled (buildings or roads), or 0.3% is either rivers or lakes.
Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 22.5% and transportation infrastructure made up 6.2%. Out of the forested land, all of the forested land area is covered with heavy forests. Of the agricultural land, 52.1% is used for growing crops and 2.1% is pastures, while 9.1% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is flowing water.
Demographics
Anières has a population () of . , 25.9% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1999–2009 ) the population has changed at a rate of 15.5%. It has changed at a rate of 14.6% due to migration and at a rate of 1.7% due to births and deaths.
Most of the population () speaks French (1,578 or 77.7%), with English being second most common (166 or 8.2%) and German being third (94 or 4.6%). There is 1 person who speaks Romansh. Of the population in the municipality 310 or about 15.3% were born in Anières and lived there in 2000. There were 670 or 33.0% who were born in the same canton, while 246 or 12.1% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 638 or 31.4% were born outside of Switzerland.
, there were 682 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.7 persons per household.
there were 729 apartments in the municipality. The most common apartment size was 5 rooms of which there were 162. There were 13 single-room apartments and 417 apartments with five or more rooms. Of these apartments, a total of 648 apartments (88.9% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 55 apartments (7.5%) were seasonally occupied and 26 apartments (3.6%) were empty.
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Politics
The name of the mayor is Antoine Barde, and the two assistants are Caroline Benbassat and Pascal Wassmer.
In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the LPS Party which received 28.52% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SVP (19.61%), the Green Party (13.64%) and the CVP (11.17%). In the federal election, a total of 654 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 52.7%.
In the 2009 Grand Conseil election, there were a total of 1,263 registered voters of which 615 (48.7%) voted. The most popular party in the municipality for this election was the Libéral with 35.1% of the ballots. In the canton-wide election they received the highest proportion of votes. The second most popular party was the Les Verts (with 11.7%), they were also second in the canton-wide election, while the third most popular party was the PDC (with 10.7%), they were fifth in the canton-wide election.
For the 2009 Conseil d'État election, there were a total of 1,259 registered voters of which 679 (53.9%) voted.
, there were 205 workers who commuted into the municipality and 763 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 3.7 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering. About 21.0% of the workforce coming into Anières are coming from outside Switzerland, while 0.3% of the locals commute out of Switzerland for work. Of the working population, 15.2% used public transportation to get to work, and 66.7% used a private car.
Religion
From the , 692 or 34.1% were Roman Catholic, while 527 or 25.9% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church. Of the rest of the population, there were 52 members of an Orthodox church (or about 2.56% of the population), there were 2 individuals (or about 0.10% of the population) who belonged to the Christian Catholic Church, and there were 38 individuals (or about 1.87% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There were 30 individuals (or about 1.48% of the population) who were Jewish, and 21 (or about 1.03% of the population) who were Islamic. There were 2 individuals who were Buddhist and 2 individuals who were Hindu. 441 (or about 21.71% of the population) belonged to no church, are agnostic or atheist, and 224 individuals (or about 11.03% of the population) did not answer the question. During that school year, there were 41 children who were in a pre-kindergarten class. 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 Anières there were 53 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 53 lower secondary students who attended school in Anières. There were 118 upper secondary students from the municipality along with 21 students who were in a professional, non-university track program. An additional 131 students attended a private school.
, there were 14 students in Anières who came from another municipality, while 290 residents attended schools outside the municipality.