Collex-Bossy is a municipality of the Canton of Geneva, Switzerland.
History
Both Collex and Bossy were first mentioned in 1258. Collex was called Coliacum while Bossy was Bocium.
Between 1790 and 1855 the municipality also included the village of Bellevue. but was already abandoned a couple of years later. In 1919, the great council of the canton of Geneva chose the site for the construction of a modern airport. However, it soon opted for the nearby area of Cointrin instead, since some land-owners demanded high prices and lengthy court cases were expected for possible expropriations.
Geography
Collex-Bossy has an area, , of . Of this area, or 64.2% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 24.8% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 10.2% is settled (buildings or roads), or 0.3% is either rivers or lakes and or 0.1% is unproductive land.
Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 4.6% and transportation infrastructure made up 3.3%. while parks, green belts and sports fields made up 1.5%. Out of the forested land, all of the forested land area is covered with heavy forests. Of the agricultural land, 44.3% is used for growing crops and 10.7% is pastures, while 9.1% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is flowing water.
Demographics
Collex-Bossy has a population () of . , 28.6% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1999–2009 ) the population has changed at a rate of 28.4%. It has changed at a rate of 20.5% due to migration and at a rate of 8.2% due to births and deaths.
Most of the population () speaks French (1,023 or 80.0%), with English being second most common (121 or 9.5%) and German being third (42 or 3.3%). There are 3 people who speak Romansh. Of the population in the municipality 213 or about 16.7% were born in Collex-Bossy and lived there in 2000. There were 427 or 33.4% who were born in the same canton, while 200 or 15.6% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 347 or 27.1% were born outside of Switzerland.
, there were 456 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.6 persons per household.
there were 538 apartments in the municipality. The most common apartment size was 4 rooms of which there were 149. There were 12 single room apartments and 231 apartments with five or more rooms. Of these apartments, a total of 430 apartments (79.9% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 95 apartments (17.7%) were seasonally occupied and 13 apartments (2.4%) were empty.
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Politics
In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SVP which received 21.51% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the LPS Party (17.71%), the Green Party (16.56%) and the CVP (13.93%). In the federal election, a total of 463 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 55.1%.
In the 2009 Grand Conseil election, there were a total of 862 registered voters of which 382 (44.3%) voted. The most popular party in the municipality for this election was the Libéral with 20.3% of the ballots. In the canton-wide election they received the highest proportion of votes. The second most popular party was the MCG (with 17.9%), they were third in the canton-wide election, while the third most popular party was the PDC (with 16.0%), they were fifth in the canton-wide election.
For the 2009 Conseil d'État election, there were a total of 853 registered voters of which 465 (54.5%) voted.
, there were 73 workers who commuted into the municipality and 547 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 7.5 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering. About 12.3% of the workforce coming into Collex-Bossy are coming from outside Switzerland, while 0.2% of the locals commute out of Switzerland for work. Of the working population, 11.4% used public transportation to get to work, and 71.8% used a private car. During that school year, there were 38 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 Collex-Bossy there were 46 students in kindergarten or primary school and 6 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 46 lower secondary students who attended school in Collex-Bossy. There were 73 upper secondary students from the municipality along with 15 students who were in a professional, non-university track program. An additional 61 students attended a private school.
, there were 14 students in Collex-Bossy who came from another municipality, while 163 residents attended schools outside the municipality.