Saint-Livres is a municipality in the district of Morges in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.
History
Saint-Livres is first mentioned in 1220 as apud Sanctum Liberium.
Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 2.1% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.3%. while parks, green belts and sports fields made up 1.2%. Out of the forested land, 41.4% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.5% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 35.0% is used for growing crops and 9.4% is pastures, while 5.2% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is flowing water.
The municipality is located on the Col du Marchairuz road.
Coat of arms
The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Or, two Spruce Branches in saltire Vert fructed Gules.
Demographics
Saint-Livres has a population () of . , 10.5% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1999–2009 ) the population has changed at a rate of 15.6%. It has changed at a rate of 13.5% due to migration and at a rate of 2.2% due to births and deaths.
Most of the population () speaks French (494 or 91.8%), with German being second most common (19 or 3.5%) and English being third (10 or 1.9%). There are 3 people who speak Italian.
, there were 224 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 275 married individuals, 18 widows or widowers and 21 individuals who are divorced.
, there were 213 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.5 persons per household.
there were 227 apartments in the municipality. The most common apartment size was 4 rooms of which there were 65. There were 12 single room apartments and 65 apartments with five or more rooms. Of these apartments, a total of 205 apartments (90.3% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 15 apartments (6.6%) were seasonally occupied and 7 apartments (3.1%) were empty.
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Sights
The entire village of Saint-Livres is designated as part of the Inventory of Swiss Heritage Sites.
Politics
In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SP which received 29.49% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SVP (28.05%), the Green Party (12.05%) and the LPS Party (11.27%). In the federal election, a total of 164 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 42.8%.
Economy
, Saint-Livres had an unemployment rate of 2.9%. , there were 46 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 17 businesses involved in this sector. 7 people were employed in the secondary sector and there was 1 business in this sector. 25 people were employed in the tertiary sector, with 11 businesses in this sector.
, there were 15 workers who commuted into the municipality and 196 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 13.1 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering. Of the working population, 5.7% used public transportation to get to work, and 65% 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 42 students in the municipal primary school program. The obligatory lower secondary school program lasts for six years and there were 31 students in those schools. There were also 1 students who were home schooled or attended another non-traditional school.
, there were 8 students in Saint-Livres who came from another municipality, while 93 residents attended schools outside the municipality.