Chêne-Bougeries is a municipality in the Canton of Geneva, Switzerland.
History
Chêne-Bougeries is first mentioned in 1270 as Quercus. In 1801 it was mentioned as Chêne-les-Bougeries.
Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 66.8% and transportation infrastructure made up 11.6%. while parks, green belts and sports fields made up 3.9%. Out of the forested land, 3.4% of the total land area is heavily forested and 2.4% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 5.1% is used for growing crops and 2.9% is pastures, while 2.2% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is flowing water.
Name
The name of Chêne-Bougeries derives from a massive oak that used to limit the build land with the forestry camps, called the Bougeries.
Demographics
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|||455||4.3
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|||88||0.8
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|||78||0.7
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|||47||0.4
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|||45||0.4
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|||36||0.3
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|||33||0.3
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|||31||0.3
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|||29||0.3
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Chêne-Bougeries has a population () of . , 31.2% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1999–2009 ) the population has changed at a rate of 7.6%. It has changed at a rate of 13.1% due to migration and at a rate of -5.6% due to births and deaths.
Most of the population () speaks French (7,631 or 78.2%), with English being second most common (584 or 6.0%) and German being third (481 or 4.9%). There are 7 people who speak Romansh. Of the population in the municipality 1,515 or about 15.5% were born in Chêne-Bougeries and lived there in 2000. There were 2,508 or 25.7% who were born in the same canton, while 1,559 or 16.0% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 3,571 or 36.6% were born outside of Switzerland.
, there were 4,025 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.2 persons per household.
there were 4,426 apartments in the municipality. The most common apartment size was 3 rooms of which there were 831. There were 441 single room apartments and 1,630 apartments with five or more rooms. Of these apartments, a total of 3,897 apartments (88.0% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 429 apartments (9.7%) were seasonally occupied and 100 apartments (2.3%) were empty.
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Notable people
140px|thumb|Jean Charles de Sismondi
140px|thumb|Françoise Saudan
- Horace Bénédict de Saussure (1740 in Conches – 1799) a geologist, meteorologist, physicist and mountaineer.
- Jean Charles Léonard de Sismondi (1773 – 1842 in Chêne-Bougeries) an historian and political economist.
- Napoléon Aubin (1812 in Chêne-Bougeries – 1890) a journalist, writer, publisher, scientist, musician and lithographer
- Casimir de Candolle (1836 – 1918 in Chêne-Bougeries) a Swiss botanist
- Maria Yakunchikova (1870–1902 in Chêne-Bougeries) a Russian painter, graphic artist and embroiderer
- Alain Delon (1935-2024) French actor, naturalised 1999 after having lived there since 1985. He is a citizen of Chêne-Bourgeries
- Françoise Saudan (born 1939) a Swiss politician, elected to the Grand Council of Geneva in 1985, lives in Chêne-Bougeries
- Nouria Hernandez (born 1957 in Chêne-Bougeries) biologist and rector of the University of Lausanne
- Erik Truffaz (born 1960 in Chêne-Bougeries) a French jazz trumpeter
- Princess Theodora of Liechtenstein (born 2004), environmentalist
; Sport
- Joël Retornaz (born 1983 in Chêne-Bougeries) an Italian curler
- Kevin Mbabu (born 1995 in Chêne-Bougeries) a Swiss football defender
- Kilian Pagliuca (born 1996 in Chêne-Bougeries) a Swiss footballer
- Tyrique Bartlett
Heritage sites of national significance
thumb|left|The Temple of Chêne Bougeries was built in 1758
The Grange Falquet and the Temple are listed as Swiss heritage sites of national significance.
Sights
Chêne-Bougeries hosts an annex (Annexe de Conches) of the Musée d'ethnographie de Genève, Geneva's ethnographic museum.
Politics
The parliament, composed of 23 people, is dominated by the Parti Libéral Genevois, the main right-wing political party of the Canton. The mayor's office, called the Conseil Administratif, is composed by 3 people: the rotating president becomes the mayor. Currently, it is Mr Emile Biedermann.
In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the LPS Party which received 27.61% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SVP (20.1%), the SP (14.54%) and the Green Party (14.07%). In the federal election, a total of 3,026 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 53.0%.
In the 2009 Grand Conseil election, there were a total of 5,745 registered voters of which 2,673 (46.5%) voted. The most popular party in the municipality for this election was the Libéral with 31.5% 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 13.9%), they were also second in the canton-wide election, while the third most popular party was the Les Radicaux (with 10.4%), they were sixth in the canton-wide election.
For the 2009 Conseil d'Etat election, there were a total of 5,740 registered voters of which 3,024 (52.7%) voted.
, there were 2,635 workers who commuted into the municipality and 3,681 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 1.4 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering. About 14.7% of the workforce coming into Chêne-Bougeries are coming from outside Switzerland, while 0.2% of the locals commute out of Switzerland for work. Of the working population, 31.2% used public transportation to get to work, and 48.2% used a private car. During that school year, there were 135 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 Chêne-Bougeries there were 214 students in kindergarten or primary school and 37 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 214 lower secondary students who attended school in Chêne-Bougeries. There were 376 upper secondary students from the municipality along with 73 students who were in a professional, non-university track program. An additional 519 students attended a private school.
, there were 2,350 students in Chêne-Bougeries who came from another municipality, while 921 residents attended schools outside the municipality.