Avully is a municipality in the canton of Geneva in Switzerland.
History
Avully is first mentioned in 1220 as Avulie.
Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 7.8% and transportation infrastructure made up 4.1%. while parks, green belts and sports fields made up 2.0%. Out of the forested land, 11.5% of the total land area is heavily forested and 3.5% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 42.7% is used for growing crops and 15.4% is pastures, while 6.1% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is flowing water.
Demographics
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|||49
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|||45
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|||24
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|||10
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Avully has a population () of . , 18.0% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1999–2009 ) the population has changed at a rate of 1.3%. It has changed at a rate of -9.7% due to migration and at a rate of 11.3% due to births and deaths.
Most of the population () speaks French (1,543 or 88.9%), with English being second most common (49 or 2.8%) and German being third (44 or 2.5%). There is 1 person who speaks Romansh. Of the population in the municipality 400 or about 23.0% were born in Avully and lived there in 2000. There were 602 or 34.7% who were born in the same canton, while 274 or 15.8% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 394 or 22.7% were born outside of Switzerland.
, there were 679 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.5 persons per household.
there were 719 apartments in the municipality. The most common apartment size was 4 rooms of which there were 252. There were 34 single room apartments and 187 apartments with five or more rooms. Of these apartments, a total of 642 apartments (89.3% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 49 apartments (6.8%) were seasonally occupied and 28 apartments (3.9%) were empty.
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Sights
The entire village of Avully is designated as part of the Inventory of Swiss Heritage Sites.
Politics
In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SP which received 21.79% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SVP (19.74%), the Green Party (18.57%) and the LPS Party (11.16%). In the federal election, a total of 491 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 45.3%.
In the 2009 Grand Conseil election, there were a total of 1,099 registered voters of which 419 (38.1%) voted. The most popular party in the municipality for this election was the MCG with 22.2% of the ballots. In the canton-wide election they received the third highest proportion of votes. The second most popular party was the Les Verts (with 19.2%), they were also second in the canton-wide election, while the third most popular party was the Les Socialistes (with 11.3%), they were fourth in the canton-wide election.
For the 2009 Conseil d'Etat election, there were a total of 1,094 registered voters of which 520 (47.5%) voted.
, there were 59 workers who commuted into the municipality and 811 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 13.7 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering. About 16.9% of the workforce coming into Avully are coming from outside Switzerland. Of the working population, 16.9% used public transportation to get to work, and 69.4% used a private car. During that school year, there were 46 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 Avully there were 74 students in kindergarten or primary school and 7 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 74 lower secondary students who attended school in Avully. There were 100 upper secondary students from the municipality along with 13 students who were in a professional, non-university track program. An additional 10 students attended a private school.
, there were 3 students in Avully who came from another municipality, while 184 residents attended schools outside the municipality.