Bussy-Chardonney () is a former municipality in the Swiss canton of Vaud, located in the district of Morges.
The municipality was created in 1961 by a merger of Bussy-sur-Morges and Chardonney-sur-Morges. This union also existed before 1744 and between 1799 and 1819.
Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 4.9% and transportation infrastructure made up 4.6%. Out of the forested land, 6.2% of the total land area is heavily forested and 2.3% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 75.1% is used for growing crops and 2.0% is pastures, while 3.9% is used for orchards or vine crops.
Coat of arms
The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Per pale, 1. Argent, a key upright Gules; 2. Gules, a thistle with a leaf Argent.
Demographics
Bussy-Chardonney has a population () of . , 14.7% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1999–2009 ) the population has changed at a rate of 28%. It has changed at a rate of 16.9% due to migration and at a rate of 11.8% due to births and deaths.
Most of the population () speaks French (297 or 88.1%), with German being second most common (15 or 4.5%) and Italian being third (9 or 2.7%).
, there were 130 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 185 married individuals, 10 widows or widowers and 12 individuals who are divorced.
, there were 125 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.6 persons per household.
there were 121 apartments in the municipality. The most common apartment size was 5 rooms of which there were 29. There were 1 single room apartments and 65 apartments with five or more rooms. Of these apartments, a total of 112 apartments (92.6% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 7 apartments (5.8%) were seasonally occupied and 2 apartments (1.7%) were empty.
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Politics
In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the LPS Party which received 32.36% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SP (12.68%), the SVP (12.5%) and the Green Party (11.64%). In the federal election, a total of 130 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 58.3%.
Economy
, Bussy-Chardonney had an unemployment rate of 5.3%. , there were 22 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 6 businesses involved in this sector. 16 people were employed in the secondary sector and there were 4 businesses in this sector. 41 people were employed in the tertiary sector, with 9 businesses in this sector.
, there were 16 workers who commuted into the municipality and 147 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 9.2 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering. Of the working population, 11.7% used public transportation to get to work, and 66.5% used a private car. During the school year, the political district provided pre-school care for a total of 631 children of which 203 children (32.2%) received subsidized pre-school care. The canton's primary school program requires students to attend for four years. There were 51 students in the municipal primary school program. The obligatory lower secondary school program lasts for six years and there were 24 students in those schools. There were also 1 students who were home schooled or attended another non-traditional school.
, there was one student in Bussy-Chardonney who came from another municipality, while 29 residents attended schools outside the municipality.