Lully is a municipality in the Swiss canton of Vaud, located in the district of Morges.
History
Lully is first mentioned in 1018 as Lulliacum.
Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 13.7% and transportation infrastructure made up 6.3%. Out of the forested land, all of the forested land area is covered with heavy forests. Of the agricultural land, 42.4% is used for growing crops and 4.4% is pastures, while 18.0% is used for orchards or vine crops.
The municipality is located westward of the Morges river. It consists of the village of Lully and the hamlet of Sécheron.
Coat of arms
The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Azure, a Bend Or and a Cross bottony Argent.
Demographics
Lully has a population () of . , 16.4% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1999–2009 ) the population has changed at a rate of 16%. It has changed at a rate of 10.4% due to migration and at a rate of 6.1% due to births and deaths.
Most of the population () speaks French (566 or 85.4%), with German being second most common (46 or 6.9%) and English being third (19 or 2.9%). There are 6 people who speak Italian.
, there were 288 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 334 married individuals, 21 widows or widowers and 20 individuals who are divorced.
, there were 236 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.7 persons per household.
there were 251 apartments in the municipality. The most common apartment size was 4 rooms of which there were 64. There were 8 single room apartments and 128 apartments with five or more rooms. Of these apartments, a total of 226 apartments (90.0% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 16 apartments (6.4%) were seasonally occupied and 9 apartments (3.6%) were empty.
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Politics
In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the Green Party which received 19.74% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SVP (18.59%), the SP (17.79%) and the FDP (13.48%). In the federal election, a total of 251 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 54.0%.
Economy
, Lully had an unemployment rate of 2.6%. , there were 29 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 10 businesses involved in this sector. 6 people were employed in the secondary sector and there were 4 businesses in this sector. 60 people were employed in the tertiary sector, with 22 businesses in this sector.
, there were 36 workers who commuted into the municipality and 254 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 7.1 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering. Of the working population, 10.3% used public transportation to get to work, and 71.3% used a private car. During the school year, the political district provided pre-school care for a total of 631 children of which 203 children (32.2%) received subsidized pre-school care. The canton's primary school program requires students to attend for four years. There were 60 students in the municipal primary school program. The obligatory lower secondary school program lasts for six years and there were 54 students in those schools.
, there were 33 students in Lully who came from another municipality, while 126 residents attended schools outside the municipality.