Montherod is a former municipality in the Swiss canton of Vaud. It is located in the district of Morges. On 1 January 2021 the former municipality of Montherod merged into the municipality of Aubonne.
History
Montherod was first mentioned in about 1344 as Monterot.
Geography
Montherod had an area, , of . Of this area, or 46.5% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 45.5% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 7.2% is settled (buildings or roads), or 0.4% is either rivers or lakes.
Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 2.8% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.6%, while parks, green belts and sports fields made up 1.6%. All forested land is covered with heavy forest. Of the agricultural land, 38.6% is used for growing crops and 6.2% is pastures, while 1.6% is used for orchards or vine crops. Of the water in the municipality, 0.2% is in lakes and 0.2% is in rivers and streams.
The former municipality is located on the right bank of the Aubonne river along the road to Col du Marchairuz. It consists of the village of Montherod and several scattered farm houses.
Coat of arms
The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Gules, three Corn Ears Or.
Demographics
Montherod had a population (as of 2019) of 536. , 22.1% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1999–2009 ) the population has changed at a rate of 21.3%. It has changed at a rate of 17.1% due to migration and at a rate of 5.6% due to births and deaths.
Most of the population () speaks French (382 or 87.0%), with German being second most common (20 or 4.6%) and English being third (13 or 3.0%). There are 7 people who speak Italian.
, there were 197 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 207 married individuals, 12 widows or widowers and 23 individuals who are divorced.
, there were 160 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.6 persons per household.
there were 173 apartments in the municipality. The most common apartment size was 4 rooms of which there were 47. There were 10 single-room apartments and 49 apartments with five or more rooms. Of these apartments, a total of 154 apartments (89.0% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 14 apartments (8.1%) were seasonally occupied and 5 apartments (2.9%) were empty.
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Politics
In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SVP which received 25.48% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SP (17.62%), the Green Party (16.86%) and the FDP (12.33%). In the federal election, a total of 108 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 39.0%.
Economy
, Montherod had an unemployment rate of 3.4%. , there were 22 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 10 businesses involved in this sector. 35 people were employed in the secondary sector and there were 4 businesses in this sector. 48 people were employed in the tertiary sector, with 9 businesses in this sector.
, there were 24 workers who commuted into the municipality and 173 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 7.2 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering. Of the working population, 5.4% used public transportation to get to work, and 74% 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 34 students in the municipal primary school program. The obligatory lower secondary school program lasts for six years and there were 33 students in those schools.