Confignon is a municipality of the Canton of Geneva, Switzerland.
History
Confignon is first mentioned in 1153 as Cofiniacum.
Geography
Confignon has an area, , of . Of this area, or 46.9% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 8.3% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 43.0% is settled (buildings or roads), or 1.1% is either rivers or lakes.
Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 25.6% and transportation infrastructure made up 7.9%. Power and water infrastructure as well as other special developed areas made up 2.2% of the area while parks, green belts and sports fields made up 6.9%. Out of the forested land, 5.4% of the total land area is heavily forested and 2.9% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 28.2% is used for growing crops and 5.8% is pastures, while 13.0% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is flowing water.
Demographics
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|+ Largest groups of foreign residents 2013
|-
!Nationality || Amount || % total<br />(population)
|-
|||145||3.3
|-
|||114||2.6
|-
|||113||2.5
|-
|||54||1.2
|-
|||33||0.8
|-
|||32||0.7
|-
|||31||0.7
|-
|||15||0.3
|-
|||14||0.3
|-
|||14||0.3
|-
|}
thumb|[[Rammed earth wall in Confignon]]
Confignon has a population () of . , 16.9% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1999–2009 ) the population has changed at a rate of 37.8%. It has changed at a rate of 33.5% due to migration and at a rate of 4.5% due to births and deaths.
Most of the population () speaks French (2,650 or 87.4%), with German being second most common (137 or 4.5%) and English being third (79 or 2.6%). Of the population in the municipality 491 or about 16.2% were born in Confignon and lived there in 2000. There were 1,148 or 37.9% who were born in the same canton, while 563 or 18.6% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 715 or 23.6% were born outside of Switzerland.
, there were 1,114 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.6 persons per household.
there were 1,162 apartments in the municipality. The most common apartment size was 3 rooms of which there were 306. There were 37 single room apartments and 422 apartments with five or more rooms. Of these apartments, a total of 1,062 apartments (91.4% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 85 apartments (7.3%) were seasonally occupied and 15 apartments (1.3%) were empty.
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Politics
In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SP which received 19.51% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the Green Party (18.08%), the LPS Party (17.83%) and the SVP (17.19%). In the federal election, a total of 1,300 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 53.1%.
In the 2009 Grand Conseil election, there were a total of 2,511 registered voters of which 1,212 (48.3%) voted. The most popular party in the municipality for this election was the Libéral with 18.9% 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 16.2%), they were also second in the canton-wide election, while the third most popular party was the MCG (with 13.8%), they were also third in the canton-wide election.
For the 2009 Conseil d'État election, there were a total of 2,513 registered voters of which 1,401 (55.8%) voted.
, there were 424 workers who commuted into the municipality and 1,309 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 3.1 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering. About 9.9% of the workforce coming into Confignon are coming from outside Switzerland, while 0.3% of the locals commute out of Switzerland for work. Of the working population, 18.2% used public transportation to get to work, and 63.9% used a private car. During that school year, there were 114 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 Confignon there were 169 students in kindergarten or primary school and 23 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 169 lower secondary students who attended school in Confignon. There were 228 upper secondary students from the municipality along with 35 students who were in a professional, non-university track program. An additional 81 students attended a private school.
, there were 716 students in Confignon who came from another municipality, while 291 residents attended schools outside the municipality.