Dardagny () is a municipality of the Canton of Geneva, Switzerland.
In 1978, Dardagny received the Wakker Prize for the development and preservation of its architectural heritage.
History
Dardagny was first mentioned in 1309 as Dardaniacum.
Geography
thumb|left|Vineyards near Dardagny
Dardagny has an area, , of . Of this area, or 61.3% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 25.9% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 9.4% is settled (buildings or roads), or 2.3% is either rivers or lakes and or 0.9% is unproductive land.
Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 1.2% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 3.7% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.8%. Out of the forested land, 24.5% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.4% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 32.7% is used for growing crops and 4.7% is pastures, while 24.0% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is flowing water.
Demographics
Dardagny has a population () of . , 26.0% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1999–2009) the population has changed at a rate of 5.4%. It has changed at a rate of -3.9% due to migration and at a rate of 8.6% due to births and deaths.
Most of the population () speaks French (1,088 or 84.7%), with German being second most common (52 or 4.0%) and English being third (44 or 3.4%). Of the population in the municipality 331 or about 25.8% were born in Dardagny and lived there in 2000. There were 352 or 27.4% who were born in the same canton, while 235 or 18.3% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 336 or 26.2% were born outside of Switzerland.
, there were 475 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.6 persons per household.
there were 513 apartments in the municipality. The most common apartment size was 3 rooms of which there were 164. There were 26 single room apartments and 140 apartments with five or more rooms. Of these apartments, a total of 462 apartments (90.1% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 44 apartments (8.6%) were seasonally occupied and 7 apartments (1.4%) were empty.
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Heritage sites of national significance
thumb| [[Dardagny Castle]]
Dardagny Castle and the Farm House Bellevaux are listed as Swiss heritage site of national significance. The entire village of Dardagny and the hamlet of Malval are part of the Inventory of Swiss Heritage Sites.
Politics
In the 2011 federal election the most popular party was the Les Radicaux which received 26.33% of the vote. The next three most popular coalitions were the UDC (16.47%), the SP (15.05%) and the Green parties (14.74%).
In the 2009 Grand Conseil election, there were a total of 719 registered voters of which 288 (40.1%) voted. The most popular party in the municipality for this election was the MCG with 20.0% of the ballots. In the canton-wide election they received the third highest proportion of votes. The second most popular party was the Les Radicaux (with 19.3%), they were sixth in the canton-wide election, while the third most popular party was the Les Verts (with 14.3%), they were second in the canton-wide election.
For the 2009 Conseil d'Etat election, there were a total of 726 registered voters of which 358 (49.3%) voted.
, there were 435 workers who commuted into the municipality and 496 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 1.1 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering. About 20.2% of the workforce coming into Dardagny are coming from outside Switzerland, while 0.0% of the locals commute out of Switzerland for work. Of the working population, 21.3% used public transportation to get to work, and 57% used a private car. During that school year, there were 22 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 Dardagny there were 53 students in kindergarten or primary school and 3 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 53 lower secondary students who attended school in Dardagny. There were 94 upper secondary students from the municipality along with 15 students who were in a professional, non-university track program. An additional 23 students attended a private school.
, there were 24 students in Dardagny who came from another municipality, while 141 residents attended schools outside the municipality.