Chevilly () is a municipality in the district of Morges in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.
History
Chevilly is first mentioned in 1540 as Chivillier.
Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 2.3% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.6%. Out of the forested land, all of the forested land area is covered with heavy forests. Of the agricultural land, 64.9% is used for growing crops and 9.3% is pastures. All the water in the municipality is flowing water.
The municipality is located at the foot of the Jura Mountains, between the Venoge and Veyron rivers. It consists of the haufendorf village (an irregular, unplanned and quite closely packed village, built around a central square) of Chevilly.
Coat of arms
The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Per fess, 1. Argent, seme of billets Sable, semi-lion Sable langued Gules; 2. Or, two Rifles saltirewise Sable, lined Argent.
Demographics
Chevilly has a population () of . , 8.8% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1999–2009 ) the population has changed at a rate of 13.1%. It has changed at a rate of 0.5% due to migration and at a rate of 12.1% due to births and deaths.
Most of the population () speaks French (193 or 91.5%), with German being second most common (8 or 3.8%) and Danish being third (4 or 1.9%). There are 2 people who speak Italian.
, there were 85 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 106 married individuals, 13 widows or widowers and 7 individuals who are divorced.
, there were 83 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.5 persons per household.
there were 91 apartments in the municipality. The most common apartment size was 3 rooms of which there were 26. There were single room apartments and 28 apartments with five or more rooms. Of these apartments, a total of 82 apartments (90.1% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 2 apartments (2.2%) were seasonally occupied and 7 apartments (7.7%) were empty.
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Politics
In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SP which received 22.19% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the FDP (17.15%), the SVP (14.63%) and the Green Party (14.56%). In the federal election, a total of 75 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 48.4%.
Economy
, Chevilly had an unemployment rate of 2.7%. , there were 15 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 7 businesses involved in this sector. 2 people were employed in the secondary sector and there were 2 businesses in this sector. 2 people were employed in the tertiary sector, with 2 businesses in this sector.
, there were 83 workers who commuted away from the municipality. Of the working population, 5.5% used public transportation to get to work, and 71.6% 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 26 students in the municipal primary school program. The obligatory lower secondary school program lasts for six years and there were 19 students in those schools.
, there were 37 students from Chevilly who attended schools outside the municipality.