Fiez is a municipality in the district of Jura-Nord Vaudois in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.
History
Fiez is first mentioned in 885 as Figiaco.
Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 1.5% and transportation infrastructure made up 1.3%. Out of the forested land, 28.4% of the total land area is heavily forested and 6.3% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 24.7% is used for growing crops and 3.1% is pastures, while 2.5% is used for orchards or vine crops and 31.6% is used for alpine pastures. All the water in the municipality is flowing water.
The municipality is located at the foot of the Jura Mountains on the right bank of the Arnon river. In addition to the land around the main village, it also includes an exclave north of Chasseron mountain, with multiple seasonal herding camps.
Coat of arms
The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Azure, a Bend wavy Argent between two Arrow Points bendwise of the same.
Demographics
Fiez has a population () of . , 11.5% of the population are resident foreign nationals. The population grew by 18.8% between 1999 and 2009; migration accounted for 11.8% of this growth.
Most of the population () speaks French (322 or 93.3%), with German being second most common (10 or 2.9%) and Spanish being third (5 or 1.4%). There is 1 person who speaks Italian.
, there were 159 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 156 married individuals, 14 widows or widowers and 16 individuals who are divorced.
, there were 128 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.7 persons per household.
there were 134 apartments in the municipality. The most common apartment size was 3 rooms of which there were 34. There were 7 single room apartments and 62 apartments with five or more rooms. Of these apartments, a total of 125 apartments (93.3% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 5 apartments (3.7%) were seasonally occupied and 4 apartments (3.0%) were empty.
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Sights
The entire village of Fiez is designated as part of the Inventory of Swiss Heritage Sites.
Politics
In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SP which received 26.64% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the FDP (20.58%), the SVP (19.45%) and the Green Party (17.73%). In the federal election, a total of 118 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 50.0%.
Economy
, Fiez had an unemployment rate of 2.4%. , there were 15 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 6 businesses involved in this sector. 16 people were employed in the secondary sector and there were 4 businesses in this sector. 24 people were employed in the tertiary sector, with 9 businesses in this sector.
, there were 14 workers who commuted into the municipality and 164 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 11.7 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering. Of the working population, 7.4% used public transportation to get to work, and 77.8% used a private car. During the school year, the political district provided pre-school care for a total of 578 children of which 359 children (62.1%) received subsidized pre-school care. The canton's primary school program requires students to attend for four years. There were 46 students in the municipal primary school program. The obligatory lower secondary school program lasts for six years and there were 28 students in those schools.
, there were 26 students in Fiez who came from another municipality, while 52 residents attended schools outside the municipality.