Champagne () is a municipality in the district of Jura-Nord Vaudois in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.
History
thumb|Aerial view (1954)
Champagne is first mentioned in 885 as Campania. After a failed lawsuit in 2002, the village was forced to remove the name in 2004. Sales dropped from 110,000 bottles of wine a year to 32,000 after the change. In April 2008, villagers voted to continue to try to use the name.
Geography
Champagne has an area, , of . Of this area, or 51.5% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 36.7% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 9.9% is settled (buildings or roads), or 1.0% is either rivers or lakes and or 1.0% is unproductive land.
Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 4.1% and transportation infrastructure made up 3.1%. while parks, green belts and sports fields made up 1.3%. Out of the forested land, 35.2% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.5% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 34.2% is used for growing crops and 7.9% is pastures, while 9.4% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is flowing water.
The municipality stretches from Lake Neuchatel to the first hills of the Jura Mountains. It is located on the western border with France. It consists of the village of Champagne and the hamlets of Saint-Maurice, Les Pasquières and Sous le Closel.
Coat of arms
The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Azure, three mushrooms Or two and one
Demographics
Champagne has a population () of . , 12.5% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1999–2009) the population has changed at a rate of 19.8%. It has changed at a rate of 15.3% due to migration and at a rate of 5.7% due to births and deaths.
Most of the population () speaks French (592 or 90.7%), with Portuguese being second most common (18 or 2.8%) and German being third (12 or 1.8%). There are 11 people who speak Italian.
, there were 269 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 309 married individuals, 36 widows or widowers and 39 individuals who had divorced.
, there were 261 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.5 persons per household.
there were 280 apartments in the municipality. The most common apartment size was 4 rooms of which there were 87. There were 9 single room apartments and 82 apartments with five or more rooms. Of these apartments, a total of 257 apartments (91.8% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 8 apartments (2.9%) were seasonally occupied and 15 apartments (5.4%) were empty.
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Sights
The entire village of Champagne is designated as part of the Inventory of Swiss Heritage Sites
Politics
In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SVP which received 30.06% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the FDP (18.75%), the SP (15.89%) and the Green Party (11.94%). In the federal election, a total of 196 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 42.9%.
Economy
, Champagne had an unemployment rate of 4.3%. , there were 22 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 8 businesses involved in this sector. 258 people were employed in the secondary sector and there were 9 businesses in this sector. 36 people were employed in the tertiary sector, with 16 businesses in this sector.
, there were 237 workers who commuted into the municipality and 216 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net importer of workers, with about 1.1 workers entering the municipality for every one leaving. About 10.5% of the workforce coming into Champagne are coming from outside Switzerland. Of the working population, 7.9% used public transportation to get to work, and 61.3% used a private car. During the school year, the political district provided pre-school care for a total of 578 children of which 359 children (62.1%) received subsidized pre-school care. The canton's primary school program requires students to attend for four years. There were 62 students in the municipal primary school program. The obligatory lower secondary school program lasts for six years and there were 59 students in those schools. There were also 1 students who were home schooled or attended another non-traditional school.
, there were 97 students in Champagne who came from another municipality, while 94 residents attended schools outside the municipality.