Paudex is a municipality in the Swiss canton of Vaud, located in the district of Lavaux-Oron. It is a suburb of the city of Lausanne.
History
Paudex is first mentioned in 1220 as Paudais.
Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 64.6% and transportation infrastructure made up 14.6%. while parks, green belts and sports fields made up 4.2%. Out of the forested land, 6.3% of the total land area is heavily forested and 4.2% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 0.0% is used for growing crops and 2.1% is pastures, while 6.3% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is flowing water.
The municipality is located along Lake Geneva between Pully and Lutry.
Coat of arms
The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Gules, a Bar wavy Argent, in chief a Rooster passant of the same.
Demographics
thumb|Community buildings in Paudex
Paudex has a population () of . , 29.5% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1999–2009) the population has changed at a rate of 0.4%. It has changed at a rate of -1.6% due to migration and at a rate of 2.4% due to births and deaths.
Most of the population () speaks French (1,174 or 83.7%), with German being second most common (65 or 4.6%) and Italian being third (45 or 3.2%). There is 1 person who speaks Romansh.
, there were 587 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 632 married individuals, 84 widows or widowers and 100 individuals who are divorced.
, there were 614 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.2 persons per household.
there were 669 apartments in the municipality. The most common apartment size was 3 rooms of which there were 208. There were 60 single room apartments and 167 apartments with five or more rooms. Of these apartments, a total of 611 apartments (91.3% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 47 apartments (7.0%) were seasonally occupied and 11 apartments (1.6%) were empty.
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Politics
In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SP which received 20.16% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SVP (19.83%), the FDP (17.79%) and the Green Party (14.1%). In the federal election, a total of 367 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 46.7%.
Economy
, Paudex had an unemployment rate of 4.9%. , there were 6 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 4 businesses involved in this sector. 122 people were employed in the secondary sector and there were 7 businesses in this sector. 719 people were employed in the tertiary sector, with 71 businesses in this sector.
, there were 468 workers who commuted into the municipality and 617 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 1.3 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering. About 1.3% of the workforce coming into Paudex are coming from outside Switzerland. Of the working population, 26.1% used public transportation to get to work, and 56.7% used a private car. During the school year, the political district provided pre-school care for a total of 665 children of which 232 children (34.9%) received subsidized pre-school care. The canton's primary school program requires students to attend for four years. There were 51 students in the municipal primary school program. The obligatory lower secondary school program lasts for six years and there were 60 students in those schools. There were also 2 students who were home schooled or attended another non-traditional school.
, there were 13 students in Paudex who came from another municipality, while 178 residents attended schools outside the municipality.