Boudevilliers is a former municipality in the district of Val-de-Ruz in the canton of Neuchâtel in Switzerland. The municipalities of Boudevilliers, Cernier, Chézard-Saint-Martin, Coffrane, Dombresson, Engollon, Fenin-Vilars-Saules, Fontainemelon, Fontaines, Les Geneveys-sur-Coffrane, Les Hauts-Geneveys, Montmollin, Le Pâquier, Savagnier and Villiers merged on 1 January 2013 into the new municipality of Val-de-Ruz.
History
Boudevilliers is first mentioned in 1195 as Boudeviler.
Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 2.2% and transportation infrastructure made up 3.3%. Out of the forested land, 28.9% of the total land area is heavily forested and 3.3% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 38.7% is used for growing crops and 10.3% is pastures and 11.9% is used for alpine pastures. All the water in the municipality is flowing water.
Demographics
Boudevilliers had a population () of 754. , 12.7% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (2000–2010) the population has changed at a rate of 20%. It has changed at a rate of 8.5% due to migration and at a rate of 11.7% due to births and deaths.
Most of the population () speaks French (665 or 92.6%) as their first language, German is the second most common (22 or 3.1%) and Portuguese is the third (8 or 1.1%). There are 5 people who speak Italian. Of the population in the municipality, 159 or about 22.1% were born in Boudevilliers and lived there in 2000. There were 300 or 41.8% who were born in the same canton, while 141 or 19.6% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 99 or 13.8% were born outside of Switzerland.
, there were 252 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.5 persons per household. The vacancy rate for the municipality, , was 0.68%.
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Sights
Boudevilliers is known for its ancient chateau which dates from the Middle Ages.
Politics
In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SP which received 25.43% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the FDP (19.97%), the SVP (19.9%) and the LPS Party (13.99%). In the federal election, a total of 276 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 55.9%.
Economy
, Boudevilliers had an unemployment rate of 3.1%. , there were 43 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 17 businesses involved in this sector. 62 people were employed in the secondary sector and there were 10 businesses in this sector. 404 people were employed in the tertiary sector, with 32 businesses in this sector.
, there were 326 workers who commuted into the municipality and 243 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net importer of workers, with about 1.3 workers entering the municipality for every one leaving. About 3.1% of the workforce coming into Boudevilliers are coming from outside Switzerland. Of the working population, 7% used public transportation to get to work, and 65.6% used a private car.
Education
In Boudevilliers about 277 or (38.6%) of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education, and 112 or (15.6%) have completed additional higher education (either university or a Fachhochschule). Of the 112 who completed tertiary schooling, 49.1% were Swiss men, 30.4% were Swiss women, 12.5% were non-Swiss men and 8.0% were non-Swiss women. During the 2010-11 school year, there were 0.5 kindergarten classes with a total of 10 students in Boudevilliers. In the same year, there was one primary class with a total of 20 students.
, there were 25 students in Boudevilliers who came from another municipality, while 99 residents attended schools outside the municipality.