Giez is a municipality in the district of Jura-Nord Vaudois in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.
History
Giez is first mentioned in 1011 as Gies.
Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 4.2% and transportation infrastructure made up 1.3%. Out of the forested land, all of the forested land area is covered with heavy forests. Of the agricultural land, 50.3% is used for growing crops and 6.7% is pastures, while 1.5% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is flowing water.
The municipality is located on a high plateau between Lake Neuchatel and the Jura Mountains.
Coat of arms
The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Azure, a Key Or.
Demographics
Giez has a population () of . , 9.9% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1999–2009 ) the population has changed at a rate of 1.4%. It has changed at a rate of -1.1% due to migration and at a rate of 2.5% due to births and deaths.
Most of the population () speaks French (331 or 95.1%), with German being second most common (12 or 3.4%) and Arabic being third (2 or 0.6%). There is 1 person who speaks Italian.
, there were 133 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 179 married individuals, 16 widows or widowers and 20 individuals who are divorced.
, there were 137 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.5 persons per household.
there were 153 apartments in the municipality. The most common apartment size was 5 rooms of which there were 38. There were 6 single-room apartments and 72 apartments with five or more rooms. Of these apartments, a total of 133 apartments (86.9% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 15 apartments (9.8%) were seasonally occupied and 5 apartments (3.3%) were empty.
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Sights
The entire region of Giez is designated as part of the Inventory of Swiss Heritage Sites.
Politics
In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SVP which received 31.02% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the Green Party (18.63%), the FDP (14.72%) and the SP (13.46%). In the federal election, a total of 120 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 46.7%.
Economy
, Giez had an unemployment rate of 3.3%. , there were 30 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 10 businesses involved in this sector. 35 people were employed in the secondary sector and there were 3 businesses in this sector. 22 people were employed in the tertiary sector, with 9 businesses in this sector.
, there were 58 workers who commuted into the municipality and 144 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 2.5 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering. About 12.1% of the workforce coming into Giez are coming from outside Switzerland. Of the working population, 11.3% used public transportation to get to work, and 61.3% 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 22 students in the municipal primary school program. The obligatory lower secondary school program lasts for six years and there were 22 students in those schools.
, there were 43 students in Giez who came from another municipality, while 47 residents attended schools outside the municipality.