Préverenges () is a municipality in the Swiss canton of Vaud, located in the district of Morges. It is a Suburb of the city of Lausanne.
History
Préverenges is first mentioned in 1224 as Preverenges.
Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 7.0% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 32.8% and transportation infrastructure made up 10.8%. Power and water infrastructure as well as other special developed areas made up 3.8% of the area while parks, green belts and sports fields made up 5.9%. Out of the forested land, 2.7% of the total land area is heavily forested and 2.7% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 25.8% is used for growing crops and 1.1% is pastures, while 5.9% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is flowing water.
The municipality is located on Lake Geneva along the Lausanne-Geneva road.
Coat of arms
The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Azure, a Sail-ship affrontee with two Sails Argent.
Demographics
Préverenges has a population () of . , 27.4% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1999–2009) the population has changed at a rate of 18%. It has changed at a rate of 9.4% due to migration and at a rate of 8.7% due to births and deaths.
Most of the population () speaks French (3,428 or 84.1%), with German being second most common (206 or 5.1%) and Italian being third (123 or 3.0%). There are 6 people who speak Romansh.
, there were 1,646 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 1,989 married individuals, 148 widows or widowers and 295 individuals who are divorced.
, there were 1,754 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.3 persons per household.
there were 1,942 apartments in the municipality. The most common apartment size was 3 rooms of which there were 651. There were 153 single room apartments and 334 apartments with five or more rooms. Of these apartments, a total of 1,729 apartments (89.0% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 190 apartments (9.8%) were seasonally occupied and 23 apartments (1.2%) were empty.
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Twin Town
Préverenges is twinned with the town of Préveranges, France.
Politics
In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SP which received 25.77% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SVP (19.1%), the Green Party (15.08%) and the FDP (13.86%). In the federal election, a total of 1,197 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 43.8%.
Economy
, Préverenges had an unemployment rate of 4.6%. , there were 15 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 3 businesses involved in this sector. 355 people were employed in the secondary sector and there were 37 businesses in this sector. 750 people were employed in the tertiary sector, with 145 businesses in this sector.
, there were 802 workers who commuted into the municipality and 1,910 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 2.4 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering. About 2.7% of the workforce coming into Préverenges are coming from outside Switzerland. Of the working population, 17.4% used public transportation to get to work, and 67% 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 296 students in the municipal primary school program. The obligatory lower secondary school program lasts for six years and there were 213 students in those schools. There were also 6 students who were home schooled or attended another non-traditional school.
, there were 99 students in Préverenges who came from another municipality, while 266 residents attended schools outside the municipality.