Saint-George is a municipality in the Swiss canton of Vaud. It is located in the district of Nyon.
History
Saint-George is first mentioned in 1153 as Sancti Georgii de Essartinis.
Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 3.7% and transportation infrastructure made up 1.8%. Out of the forested land, 74.9% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.5% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 8.0% is used for growing crops and 4.8% is pastures and 4.8% is used for alpine pastures.
The municipality is located along the Col du Marchairuz road.
Coat of arms
The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Gules, St. George riding a Horse all Or, haloed Argent and shielded Argent a cross Gules, killing a Dragon Sable lined Or.
Demographics
Saint-George has a population () of . , 20.2% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1999–2009 ) the population has changed at a rate of 44.9%. It has changed at a rate of 41.6% due to migration and at a rate of 3% due to births and deaths.
Most of the population () speaks French (535 or 86.6%), with German being second most common (43 or 7.0%) and English being third (20 or 3.2%). There are 4 people who speak Italian.
, there were 231 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 297 married individuals, 40 widows or widowers and 50 individuals who are divorced.
, there were 247 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.3 persons per household.
there were 330 apartments in the municipality. The most common apartment size was 4 rooms of which there were 86. There were 13 single room apartments and 122 apartments with five or more rooms. Of these apartments, a total of 225 apartments (68.2% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 80 apartments (24.2%) were seasonally occupied and 25 apartments (7.6%) were empty.
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Heritage sites of national significance
The village mill is listed as a Swiss heritage site of national significance.
Politics
In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the FDP which received 16.94% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SP (16.67%), the SVP (15.48%) and the LPS Party (14.39%). In the federal election, a total of 226 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 44.4%.
Economy
, Saint-George had an unemployment rate of 6%. , there were 17 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 7 businesses involved in this sector. 22 people were employed in the secondary sector and there were 8 businesses in this sector. 87 people were employed in the tertiary sector, with 15 businesses in this sector.
, there were 75 workers who commuted into the municipality and 204 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 2.7 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering. About 21.3% of the workforce coming into Saint-George are coming from outside Switzerland. Of the working population, 8.2% used public transportation to get to work, and 69.5% used a private car. During the school year, the political district provided pre-school care for a total of 1,249 children of which 563 children (45.1%) received subsidized pre-school care. The canton's primary school program requires students to attend for four years. There were 72 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 9 students in Saint-George who came from another municipality, while 72 residents attended schools outside the municipality.