Genthod is a municipality of the Canton of Geneva, Switzerland.
History
Genthod is first mentioned around 1301-1400 as Gentouz.
Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 44.6% and transportation infrastructure made up 7.3%. Out of the forested land, 5.2% of the total land area is heavily forested and 2.8% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 22.6% is used for growing crops and 10.1% is pastures, while 3.5% is used for orchards or vine crops.
Demographics
Genthod has a population () of . , 34.5% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1999–2009 ) the population has changed at a rate of 25.7%. It has changed at a rate of 23.8% due to migration and at a rate of 2% due to births and deaths.
Most of the population () speaks French (1,582 or 72.9%), with English being second most common (247 or 11.4%) and German being third (96 or 4.4%). There are 58 people who speak Italian and 1 person who speaks Romansh. Of the population in the municipality 273 or about 12.6% were born in Genthod and lived there in 2000. There were 605 or 27.9% who were born in the same canton, while 365 or 16.8% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 779 or 35.9% were born outside of Switzerland.
, there were 736 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.7 persons per household.
there were 809 apartments in the municipality. The most common apartment size was 5 rooms of which there were 183. There were 15 single room apartments and 457 apartments with five or more rooms. Of these apartments, a total of 714 apartments (88.3% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 79 apartments (9.8%) were seasonally occupied and 16 apartments (2.0%) were empty.
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Heritage sites of national significance
The Campagne Bonnet, Campagne du Creux-de-Genthod and the Campagne du Grand-Malagny are listed as Swiss heritage site of national significance. The entire village of Genthod is part of the Inventory of Swiss Heritage Sites.
Politics
In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SVP which received 21.71% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the LPS Party (20.07%), the Green Party (16.01%) and the SP (13.64%). In the federal election, a total of 734 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 55.0%.
In the 2009 Grand Conseil election, there were a total of 1,322 registered voters of which 564 (42.7%) voted. The most popular party in the municipality for this election was the Libéral with 29.5% 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 14.1%), they were also second in the canton-wide election, while the third most popular party was the MCG (with 12.3%), they were also third in the canton-wide election.
For the 2009 Conseil d'État election, there were a total of 1,321 registered voters of which 670 (50.7%) voted.
, there were 341 workers who commuted into the municipality and 890 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 2.6 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering. About 12.6% of the workforce coming into Genthod are coming from outside Switzerland, while 0.1% of the locals commute out of Switzerland for work. Of the working population, 11.5% used public transportation to get to work, and 72.4% used a private car. During that school year, there were 44 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 Genthod there were 84 students in kindergarten or primary school and 21 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 84 lower secondary students who attended school in Genthod. There were 104 upper secondary students from the municipality along with 18 students who were in a professional, non-university track program. An additional 127 students attended a private school.
, there were 138 students in Genthod who came from another municipality, while 311 residents attended schools outside the municipality.