Savigny () is a municipality in Switzerland in the canton of Vaud, located in the district of Lavaux-Oron.
History
Savigny is first mentioned in 1224 as Savignie. It was part of Lutry until 1823 when it separated to become an independent municipality.
Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 7.6% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.9%. Power and water infrastructure as well as other special developed areas made up 1.2% of the area Out of the forested land, 28.2% of the total land area is heavily forested and 2.2% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 45.8% is used for growing crops and 9.8% is pastures, while 1.9% is used for orchards or vine crops.
Savigny lies above sea-level, east from Lausanne the capital of its canton. The thinly distributed community stretches across the Swiss landscape and ends on the Jorat to the south east overlooking Lake Geneva.
The district encompasses an area that includes a part of the Molasse peaks in the Jorat. It consists of the hamlets of Mollie-Margot, La Goille, Le Martinet and La Claie-aux-Moines along with scattered settlements.
Coat of arms
The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Per fess Gules and Argent, overall three Pine-trees Vert issuant from a Coupeaux Sable.
Demographics
Savigny has a population () of . , 19.2% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1999–2009 ) the population has changed at a rate of 10.8%. It has changed at a rate of 6.8% due to migration and at a rate of 4% due to births and deaths.
Most of the population () speaks French (2,667 or 86.5%), with German being second most common (232 or 7.5%) and English being third (48 or 1.6%). There are thirty people who speak Italian and two people who speak Romansh.
, there were 1,309 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 1,496 married individuals, 127 widows or widowers and 152 individuals who are divorced.
, there were 1,290 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.3 persons per household.
there were 1,302 apartments in the municipality. The most common apartment size was 3 rooms of which there were 329. There were 62 single room apartments and 469 apartments with five or more rooms. Of these apartments, a total of 1,135 apartments (87.2% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 141 apartments (10.8%) were seasonally occupied and 26 apartments (2.0%) were empty.
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Politics
In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SVP which received 19.39% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SP (19.17%), the FDP (18.41%) and the Green Party (15.25%). In the federal election, a total of 1,029 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 49.0%.
Economy
, Savigny had an unemployment rate of 3.5%. , there were 98 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 44 businesses involved in this sector. 220 people were employed in the secondary sector and there were 20 businesses in this sector. 695 people were employed in the tertiary sector, with 81 businesses in this sector.
, there were 381 workers who commuted into the municipality and 1,183 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 3.1 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering. About 2.9% of the workforce coming into Savigny are coming from outside Switzerland. Of the working population, 12.5% used public transportation to get to work, and 67.6% 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 214 students in the municipal primary school program. The obligatory lower secondary school program lasts for six years and there were 165 students in those schools. There were also 2 students who were home schooled or attended another non-traditional school.
, there were 71 students in Savigny who came from another municipality, while 269 residents attended schools outside the municipality.