Cartigny is a municipality of the Canton of Geneva, Switzerland.
History
Cartigny is first mentioned in 1220 as Cartiniacum and Quartinie.
Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 7.1% and transportation infrastructure made up 3.2%. Out of the forested land, 23.5% of the total land area is heavily forested and 5.7% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 37.0% is used for growing crops and 12.3% is pastures, while 6.2% is used for orchards or vine crops. Of the water in the municipality, 1.1% is in lakes and 1.8% is in rivers and streams.
Demographics
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|+ Largest groups of foreign residents, 2013
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!Nationality || Amount || % total<br />(population)
|-
|||47||5.4
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|||45||5.2
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|||16||1.8
|-
|||14||1.3
|-
|||10||1.2
|-
|}
Cartigny has a population () of . , 22.7% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1999–2009 ) the population has changed at a rate of 11.3%. It has changed at a rate of 3.7% due to migration and at a rate of 8.3% due to births and deaths.
Most of the population () speaks French (632 or 84.5%), with English being second most common (51 or 6.8%) and German being third (23 or 3.1%). Of the population in the municipality 180 or about 24.1% were born in Cartigny and lived there in 2000. There were 239 or 32.0% who were born in the same canton, while 118 or 15.8% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 185 or 24.7% were born outside of Switzerland.
, there were 298 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.4 persons per household.
there were 336 apartments in the municipality. The most common apartment size was 4 rooms of which there were 82. There were 24 single room apartments and 133 apartments with five or more rooms. Of these apartments, a total of 282 apartments (83.9% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 44 apartments (13.1%) were seasonally occupied and 10 apartments (3.0%) were empty.
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Sights
The entire village of Cartigny is designated as part of the Inventory of Swiss Heritage Sites.
Politics
In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the LPS Party which received 22.55% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SP (16.26%), the Green Party (15.41%) and the SVP (14.44%). In the federal election, a total of 316 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 64.2%.
In the 2009 Grand Conseil election, there were a total of 518 registered voters of which 289 (55.8%) voted. The most popular party in the municipality for this election was the Libéral with 24.4% 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 14.6%), they were also second in the canton-wide election, while the third most popular party was the Les Socialistes (with 12.9%), they were fourth in the canton-wide election.
For the 2009 Conseil d'Etat election, there were a total of 517 registered voters of which 342 (66.2%) voted.
, there were 144 workers who commuted into the municipality and 310 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 2.2 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering. About 17.4% of the workforce coming into Cartigny are coming from outside Switzerland. Of the working population, 11.5% used public transportation to get to work, and 68% used a private car. During that school year, there were 16 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 Cartigny there were 24 students in kindergarten or primary school and - 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 24 lower secondary students who attended school in Cartigny. There were 49 upper secondary students from the municipality along with 8 students who were in a professional, non-university track program. An additional 32 students attended a private school.
, there were 6 students in Cartigny who came from another municipality, while 76 residents attended schools outside the municipality.