Le Mont-sur-Lausanne (, literally Le Mont on Lausanne; ) is a municipality in the district of Lausanne in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.
It is a suburb of the city of Lausanne.
History
Le Mont-sur-Lausanne is first mentioned in 1237 as Monte super Lausannam.
Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 3.8% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 17.1% and transportation infrastructure made up 7.3%. while parks, green belts and sports fields made up 1.4%. Out of the forested land, 16.5% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.7% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 42.6% is used for growing crops and 6.4% is pastures, while 2.0% is used for orchards or vine crops.
The municipality is located in the northern portion of the agglomeration of Lausanne and on the edge of the Jorat woods. It consists of the village sections of Le Petit-Mont, Le Grand-Mont and Les Planches.
Coat of arms
The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Gules, three Hills Argent, growing from the middle one a Horse Chestnut Tree; chief of the same.
Demographics
Le Mont-sur-Lausanne has a population () of . , 18.1% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1999–2009 ) the population has changed at a rate of 7.1%. It has changed at a rate of 5.6% due to migration and at a rate of 1.4% due to births and deaths.
Most of the population () speaks French (4,539 or 87.6%), with German being second most common (286 or 5.5%) and Italian being third (94 or 1.8%). There are 2 people who speak Romansh.
, there were 2,059 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 2,595 married individuals, 249 widows or widowers and 279 individuals who are divorced.
, there were 1,963 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.5 persons per household.
there were 2,004 apartments in the municipality. The most common apartment size was 4 rooms of which there were 466. There were 79 single room apartments and 881 apartments with five or more rooms. Of these apartments, a total of 1,880 apartments (93.8% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 97 apartments (4.8%) were seasonally occupied and 27 apartments (1.3%) were empty.
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Politics
In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SVP which received 21.54% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the FDP (17.6%), the SP (17.17%) and the Green Party (12.72%). In the federal election, a total of 1,678 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 49.6%.
Economy
, Le Mont-sur-Lausanne had an unemployment rate of 3.6%. , there were 62 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 22 businesses involved in this sector. 1,103 people were employed in the secondary sector and there were 94 businesses in this sector. 4,670 people were employed in the tertiary sector, with 319 businesses in this sector.
, there were 4,069 workers who commuted into the municipality and 1,924 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net importer of workers, with about 2.1 workers entering the municipality for every one leaving. About 1.8% of the workforce coming into Le Mont-sur-Lausanne are coming from outside Switzerland. Of the working population, 14.2% used public transportation to get to work, and 68.4% used a private car. During the school year, the political district provided pre-school care for a total of 2,648 children of which 1,947 children (73.5%) received subsidized pre-school care. The canton's primary school program requires students to attend for four years. There were 315 students in the municipal primary school program. The obligatory lower secondary school program lasts for six years and there were 337 students in those schools. There were also 14 students who were home schooled or attended another non-traditional school.
, there were 200 students in Le Mont-sur-Lausanne who came from another municipality, while 483 residents attended schools outside the municipality.