Corsier (, <small>locally</small> ) is a municipality of the Canton of Geneva, Switzerland.
History
Corsier is first mentioned in 1297 as Corsiacum. Between 1816 and 1858 Corsier and Anières formed a single municipality.
Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 27.4% and transportation infrastructure made up 4.0%. while parks, green belts and sports fields made up 1.8%. Out of the forested land, 2.2% of the total land area is heavily forested and 0.7% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 39.4% is used for growing crops and 9.1% is pastures, while 9.1% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is flowing water. Over the last 10 years (1999–2009) the population has changed at a rate of 5.2%. It has changed at a rate of -0.8% due to migration and at a rate of 5.5% due to births and deaths.
Most of the population () speaks French (1,361 or 80.9%), with English being second most common (106 or 6.3%) and German being third (74 or 4.4%). Of the population in the municipality 304 or about 18.1% were born in Corsier and lived there in 2000. There were 522 or 31.0% who were born in the same canton, while 253 or 15.0% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 558 or 33.2% were born outside of Switzerland.
, there were 615 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.6 persons per household.
there were 677 apartments in the municipality. The most common apartment size was 4 rooms of which there were 158. There were 39 single room apartments and 316 apartments with five or more rooms. Of these apartments, a total of 592 apartments (87.4% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 72 apartments (10.6%) were seasonally occupied and 13 apartments (1.9%) were empty.
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Heritage sites of national significance
The prehistoric lakeside settlement at Port is listed as a Swiss heritage site of national significance. The settlement is part of the Prehistoric Pile dwellings around the Alps a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Politics
In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the LPS Party which received 26.79% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SVP (21.79%), the CVP (15.08%) and the Green Party (10.91%). In the federal election, a total of 486 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 50.5%.
Economy
, Corsier had an unemployment rate of 4.5%. , there were 53 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 7 businesses involved in this sector. 38 people were employed in the secondary sector and there were 12 businesses in this sector. 183 people were employed in the tertiary sector, with 54 businesses in this sector.
, there were 150 workers who commuted into the municipality and 697 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 4.6 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering. About 18.0% of the workforce coming into Corsier are coming from outside Switzerland, while 0.3% of the locals commute out of Switzerland for work. Of the working population, 17.8% used public transportation to get to work, and 68.4% used a private car. During that school year, there were 23 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 Corsier there were 42 students in kindergarten or primary school and 5 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 42 lower secondary students who attended school in Corsier. There were 88 upper secondary students from the municipality along with 8 students who were in a professional, non-university track program. An additional 101 students attended a private school.
, there were 149 students in Corsier who came from another municipality, while 213 residents attended schools outside the municipality.