Saint-Oyens is a municipality in the Swiss canton of Vaud located at the foot of the Jura mountains. It lies in the district of Morges.
History
Saint-Oyens is first mentioned in 1139 as Sancto Eugendo (Medieval Latin for Saint Eugendus).
Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 2.6% and transportation infrastructure made up 1.0%. Power and water infrastructure as well as other special developed areas made up 1.3% of the area Out of the forested land, 36.7% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.6% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 43.9% is used for growing crops and 11.8% is pastures.
The municipality is located between the vineyards of La Côte and the Jura Mountains.
Coat of arms
The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Gules, in Chief Or an Eagle Sable.
Demographics
Saint-Oyens has a population () of . , 16.1% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1999–2009) the population has changed at a rate of 26.1%. It has changed at a rate of 26.5% due to migration and at a rate of -1.2% due to births and deaths.
Most of the population () speaks French (214 or 90.3%), with German being second most common (9 or 3.8%) and English being third (8 or 3.4%). There is 1 person who speaks Italian.
, there were 88 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 129 married individuals, 11 widows or widowers and 9 individuals who are divorced.
, there were 93 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.5 persons per household.
there were 103 apartments in the municipality. The most common apartment size was 4 rooms of which there were 31. There were 4 single room apartments and 43 apartments with five or more rooms. Of these apartments, a total of 93 apartments (90.3% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 6 apartments (5.8%) were seasonally occupied and 4 apartments (3.9%) were empty.
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Politics
In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SVP which received 38.69% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the Green Party (16.8%), the FDP (11.96%) and the LPS Party (11.89%). In the federal election, a total of 96 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 50.8%.
Economy
, Saint-Oyens had an unemployment rate of 7.8%. , there were 20 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 11 businesses involved in this sector. 12 people were employed in the secondary sector and there were 4 businesses in this sector. 19 people were employed in the tertiary sector, with 7 businesses in this sector.
, there were 10 workers who commuted into the municipality and 91 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 9.1 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering. Of the working population, 8.9% used public transportation to get to work, and 70.2% 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 24 students in the municipal primary school program. The obligatory lower secondary school program lasts for six years and there were 20 students in those schools.
, there were 13 students in Saint-Oyens who came from another municipality, while 44 residents attended schools outside the municipality.