Longirod is a municipality in the Swiss canton Vaud, located in the district of Nyon.
History
Longirod is first mentioned in 1267 as Longirot.
Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 1.6% and transportation infrastructure made up 1.5%. Out of the forested land, 55.1% of the total land area is heavily forested and 2.3% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 25.5% is used for growing crops and 9.6% is pastures and 4.0% is used for alpine pastures.
The municipality is located at the foot of the Jura Mountains along the road to Col du Marchairuz. It consists of the village of Longirod and scattered individual farm houses.
Coat of arms
The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Argent, from a Mount Vert rising three Pine-trees of the same.
Demographics
Longirod has a population () of . , 18.9% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1999–2009 ) the population has changed at a rate of 20.2%. It has changed at a rate of 12.4% due to migration and at a rate of 8.4% due to births and deaths.
Most of the population () speaks French (287 or 83.4%), with German being second most common (30 or 8.7%) and English being third (16 or 4.7%). There are 5 people who speak Italian.
, there were 134 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 180 married individuals, 17 widows or widowers and 13 individuals who are divorced.
, there were 134 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.5 persons per household.
there were 167 apartments in the municipality. The most common apartment size was 4 rooms of which there were 42. There were single room apartments and 75 apartments with five or more rooms. Of these apartments, a total of 131 apartments (78.4% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 31 apartments (18.6%) were seasonally occupied and 5 apartments (3.0%) were empty.
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Politics
In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SVP which received 31.03% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SP (18.5%), the FDP (14.5%) and the Green Party (13.65%). In the federal election, a total of 121 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 47.1%.
Economy
, Longirod had an unemployment rate of 4.2%. , there were 43 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 15 businesses involved in this sector. 3 people were employed in the secondary sector and there were 2 businesses in this sector. 28 people were employed in the tertiary sector, with 12 businesses in this sector.
, there were 12 workers who commuted into the municipality and 112 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 9.3 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering. Of the working population, 8.5% used public transportation to get to work, and 59.1% used a private car.
Education
In Longirod about 128 or (37.2%) of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education, and 52 or (15.1%) have completed additional higher education (either university or a Fachhochschule). Of the 52 who completed tertiary schooling, 46.2% were Swiss men, 34.6% were Swiss women, 11.5% were non-Swiss men. During the school year, the political district provided pre-school care for a total of 1,249 children of which 563 children (45.1%) received subsidized pre-school care. The canton's primary school program requires students to attend for four years. There were 24 students in the municipal primary school program. The obligatory lower secondary school program lasts for six years and there were 19 students in those schools. There were also 1 students who were home schooled or attended another non-traditional school.
, there were 13 students in Longirod who came from another municipality, while 53 residents attended schools outside the municipality.