Lussery-Villars is a municipality of the canton of Vaud in Switzerland, located in the district of Gros-de-Vaud. On 1 January 1999, Lussery and Villars-Lussery were united to form the municipality.
History
Lussery is first mentioned in 1147 as Luseri.
Geography
Lussery-Villars has an area, , of . Of this area, or 82.6% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 9.9% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 6.7% is settled (buildings or roads), or 0.8% is either rivers or lakes. Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 2.9% and transportation infrastructure made up 3.5%. Out of the forested land, 7.8% of the total land area is heavily forested and 2.1% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 70.2% is used for growing crops and 12.1% is pastures. All the water in the municipality is flowing water.
Coat of arms
The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Per fess: 1. Argent semee of Billets Sable, semi Lion rampant issuant, armed of the first and langued Gules; 2. Sable, three Bendlets sinister Argent, a Mining-wheel issuant from chief Or.
Demographics
Lussery-Villars has a population () of . , 14.3% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1999–2009 ) the population has changed at a rate of 7.7%. It has changed at a rate of 5.6% due to migration and at a rate of 1.5% due to births and deaths.
Most of the population () speaks French (307 or 93.9%), with German being second most common (9 or 2.8%) and Italian being third (4 or 1.2%).
, there were 137 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 162 married individuals, 13 widows or widowers and 15 individuals who are divorced.
, there were 133 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.4 persons per household. there were 137 apartments in the municipality. The most common apartment size was 4 rooms of which there were 41. There were 7 single room apartments and 37 apartments with five or more rooms. Of these apartments, a total of 125 apartments (91.2% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 10 apartments (7.3%) were seasonally occupied and 2 apartments (1.5%) were empty.
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Politics
In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SVP which received 30.01% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SP (25.24%), the FDP (11.59%) and the Green Party (10.46%). In the federal election, a total of 109 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 48.4%.
Economy
, Lussery-Villars had an unemployment rate of 3.1%. , there were 19 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 9 businesses involved in this sector. 3 people were employed in the secondary sector and there were 2 businesses in this sector. 6 people were employed in the tertiary sector, with 5 businesses in this sector.
, there were 7 workers who commuted into the municipality and 147 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 21.0 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering. Of the working population, 3.5% used public transportation to get to work, and 80.8% used a private car. During the school year, the political district provided pre-school care for a total of 296 children of which 96 children (32.4%) received subsidized pre-school care. The canton's primary school program requires students to attend for four years. There were 14 students in the municipal primary school program. The obligatory lower secondary school program lasts for six years and there were 20 students in those schools.
, there were 8 students in Lussery-Villars who came from another municipality, while 58 residents attended schools outside the municipality.