Boussens is a municipality in the district of Gros-de-Vaud in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.
History
Boussens is first mentioned in 1177 as Bussens.
Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 6.0% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.5%. Out of the forested land, all of the forested land area is covered with heavy forests. Of the agricultural land, 67.6% is used for growing crops and 9.8% is pastures.
The municipality is located in the southern Gros-de-Vaud area. It consists of the village of Boussens and the hamlets of Chevrine and Grange aux Aguet.
Coat of arms
The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Argent, a lion rampant Gules, bordered Sable and Argent chequy.
Demographics
Boussens has a population () of . , 7.4% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1999–2009 ) the population has changed at a rate of 20.1%. It has changed at a rate of 11.4% due to migration and at a rate of 8.4% due to births and deaths.
Most of the population () speaks French (692 or 93.1%), with German being second most common (23 or 3.1%) and English being third (9 or 1.2%). There are 7 people who speak Italian and 1 person who speaks Romansh.
, there were 346 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 348 married individuals, 18 widows or widowers and 31 individuals who are divorced.
, there were 259 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.8 persons per household.
there were 278 apartments in the municipality. The most common apartment size was 4 rooms of which there were 93. There were 3 single room apartments and 117 apartments with five or more rooms. Of these apartments, a total of 251 apartments (90.3% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 19 apartments (6.8%) were seasonally occupied and 8 apartments (2.9%) were empty.
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Politics
In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SVP which received 26.27% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SP (20.6%), the Green Party (13.95%) and the FDP (11.01%). In the federal election, a total of 208 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 41.8%.
Economy
, Boussens had an unemployment rate of 3.4%. , there were 18 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 10 businesses involved in this sector. 8 people were employed in the secondary sector and there were 4 businesses in this sector. 150 people were employed in the tertiary sector, with 23 businesses in this sector.
, there were 99 workers who commuted into the municipality and 323 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 3.3 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering. Of the working population, 8.6% used public transportation to get to work, and 76% used a private car. During the school year, the political district provided pre-school care for a total of 296 children of which 96 children (32.4%) received subsidized pre-school care. The canton's primary school program requires students to attend for four years. There were 68 students in the municipal primary school program. The obligatory lower secondary school program lasts for six years and there were 65 students in those schools.
, there were 36 students in Boussens who came from another municipality, while 111 residents attended schools outside the municipality.