Cudrefin () is a municipality in the district of Broye-Vully in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.
History
Cudrefin is first mentioned in 999 as Curtefin.
Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 3.8% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.7%. 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, 52.8% is used for growing crops and 6.0% is pastures, while 1.9% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is flowing water.
On 1 January 2002 the former municipality of Champmartin merged into the municipality of Cudrefin, keeping the name Cudrefin.
Demographics
thumb|Main street in Cudrefin
thumb|Village center with Fountain of Justice
thumb|Water service station in Cudrefin
Cudrefin has a population () of . , 10.6% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1999–2009) the population has changed at a rate of 42.6%. It has changed at a rate of 36.6% due to migration and at a rate of 6.8% due to births and deaths.
Most of the population () speaks French (638 or 75.6%), with German being second most common (170 or 20.1%) and Portuguese being third (14 or 1.7%). There are 9 people who speak Italian and 1 person who speaks Romansh.
, there were 324 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 425 married individuals, 39 widows or widowers and 56 individuals who are divorced.
, there were 381 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.2 persons per household.
there were 591 apartments in the municipality. The most common apartment size was 4 rooms of which there were 171. There were 27 single room apartments and 186 apartments with five or more rooms. Of these apartments, a total of 351 apartments (59.4% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 199 apartments (33.7%) were seasonally occupied and 41 apartments (6.9%) were empty.
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Heritage sites of national significance
thumb|Fountain of Justice
The Fountain of Justice is listed as a Swiss heritage site of national significance. The entire village of Montet is part of the Inventory of Swiss Heritage Sites.
Politics
In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SVP which received 31.32% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SP (19.93%), the FDP (14.09%) and the Green Party (12.51%). In the federal election, a total of 270 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 37.8%.
Economy
, Cudrefin had an unemployment rate of 2.9%. , there were 78 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 27 businesses involved in this sector. 38 people were employed in the secondary sector and there were 10 businesses in this sector. 140 people were employed in the tertiary sector, with 40 businesses in this sector.
, there were 64 workers who commuted into the municipality and 278 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 4.3 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering. Of the working population, 5.6% used public transportation to get to work, and 62.8% used a private car. During the school year, the political district provided pre-school care for a total of 155 children of which 83 children (53.5%) received subsidized pre-school care. The canton's primary school program requires students to attend for four years. There were 91 students in the municipal primary school program. The obligatory lower secondary school program lasts for six years and there were 62 students in those schools. There were also 2 students who were home schooled or attended another non-traditional school.
, there were 13 students in Cudrefin who came from another municipality, while 85 residents attended schools outside the municipality.