Clarmont is a municipality in the Swiss canton of Vaud, located in the district of Morges.
Geography
Clarmont has an area, , of . Of this area, or 82.0% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 11.0% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 8.0% is settled (buildings or roads).
Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 5.0% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.0%. Out of the forested land, 6.0% of the total land area is heavily forested and 5.0% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 67.0% is used for growing crops and 9.0% is pastures, while 6.0% is used for orchards or vine crops.
The municipality is located on a high plateau above the Morges river.
Coat of arms
The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Azure, a Bar wavy Argent, in chief a Sun in his splendour Or, in base a Coupeaux of the last.
Demographics
Clarmont has a population () of . , 10.1% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1999–2009 ) the population has changed at a rate of 5.3%. It has changed at a rate of -3.8% due to migration and at a rate of 9.9% due to births and deaths.
Most of the population () speaks French (124 or 87.3%), with German being second most common (7 or 4.9%) and Italian being third (3 or 2.1%).
, there were 57 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 65 married individuals, 5 widows or widowers, and 15 individuals who were divorced.
, there were 65 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.0 persons per household.
, the municipality had 76 apartments. The most common apartment size was 3 rooms, of which there were 25. There were 3 single-room apartments and 22 apartments with five or more rooms. Of these apartments, a total of 65 apartments (85.5% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 9 apartments (11.8%) were seasonally occupied and 2 apartments (2.6%) were empty.
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Politics
In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SP which received 20.25% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the LPS Party (18.15%), the SVP (18.02%) and the Green Party (15.19%). In the federal election, a total of 46 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 47.4%.
Economy
, Clarmont had an unemployment rate of 1.8%. , there were 30 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. 12 people were employed in the tertiary sector, with 4 businesses in this sector.
, there were 67 workers who commuted away from the municipality. Of the working population, 8.8% used public transportation to get to work, and 75% 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 9 students in the municipal primary school program. The obligatory lower secondary school program lasts for six years and there were 6 students in those schools.
, there were 23 students from Clarmont who attended schools outside the municipality.