Lussy-sur-Morges is a municipality in the Swiss canton of Vaud, located in the Morges district.
History
Lussy-sur-Morges is first mentioned in 1026 as in villa Luciaco.
Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 9.0% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.1%. Out of the forested land, all of the forested land area is covered with heavy forests. Of the agricultural land, 58.5% is used for growing crops and 5.6% is pastures, while 10.7% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is flowing water.
It consists of the village of Lussy-sur-Morges and the hamlet of Coinsin, which was known in the 15th and 16th Centuries as Saint-André.
Coat of arms
The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Per pale: 1. Gules, a Cross bottony Argent; Azure, a Key Or.
Demographics
Lussy-sur-Morges has a population () of . , 15.4% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1999–2009 ) the population has changed at a rate of 0.3%. It has changed at a rate of 7.9% due to migration and at a rate of -7.2% due to births and deaths.
Most of the population () speaks French (507 or 87.7%), with German being second most common (26 or 4.5%) and English being third (20 or 3.5%). There are 3 people who speak Italian.
, there were 229 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 298 married individuals, 27 widows or widowers and 24 individuals who are divorced.
, there were 189 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.9 persons per household.
there were 189 apartments in the municipality. The most common apartment size was 4 rooms of which there were 59. There were 5 single-room apartments and 88 apartments with five or more rooms. Of these apartments, a total of 176 apartments (93.1% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 8 apartments (4.2%) were seasonally occupied and 5 apartments (2.6%) were empty.
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Politics
In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SVP which received 22.87% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SP (19.1%), the Green Party (14.39%) and the FDP (10.73%). In the federal election, a total of 176 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 48.6%.
Economy
, Lussy-sur-Morges had an unemployment rate of 2.3%. , there were 31 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 7 businesses involved in this sector. 32 people were employed in the secondary sector and there were 6 businesses in this sector. 123 people were employed in the tertiary sector, with 23 businesses in this sector.
, there were 95 workers who commuted into the municipality and 206 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 2.2 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering. About 5.3% of the workforce coming into Lussy-sur-Morges are coming from outside Switzerland. Of the working population, 10.8% used public transportation to get to work, and 66.2% 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 33 students in the municipal primary school program. The obligatory lower secondary school program lasts for six years and there were 43 students in those schools.
, there were 7 students in Lussy-sur-Morges who came from another municipality, while 102 residents attended schools outside the municipality.