Suscévaz is a municipality in the district of Jura-Nord Vaudois of the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.
History
Suscévaz is first mentioned in 1140 as Subsilva.
Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 2.4% and transportation infrastructure made up 1.2%. Out of the forested land, 9.2% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.7% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 76.1% is used for growing crops and 5.3% is pastures, while 1.4% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is flowing water.
Coat of arms
The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Barry wavy of Six Gules and Vert, a Lion rampant Or.
Demographics
Suscévaz has a population () of . , 5.2% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1999–2009) the population has changed at a rate of 6.9%. It has changed at a rate of 7.4% due to migration and at a rate of 0% due to births and deaths.
Most of the population () speaks French (166 or 93.3%) as their first language, with Portuguese being second most common (7 or 3.9%) and German being third (3 or 1.7%).
, there were 68 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 94 married individuals, 12 widows or widowers and 4 individuals who are divorced.
, there were 70 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.5 persons per household.
, a total of 63 apartments (86.3% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 8 apartments (11.0%) were seasonally occupied and 2 apartments (2.7%) were empty.
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Politics
In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SVP which received 42.35% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SP (16.36%), the Green Party (15.61%) and the FDP (12.1%). In the federal election, a total of 81 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 59.6%.
Economy
, Suscévaz had an unemployment rate of 2.8%. , there were 27 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 9 businesses involved in this sector. 8 people were employed in the secondary sector and there was 1 business in this sector. 3 people were employed in the tertiary sector, with 1 business in this sector.
, there were 12 workers who commuted into the municipality and 61 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 5.1 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering. Of the working population, 12.2% used public transportation to get to work, and 53.3% used a private car. During the school year, the political district provided pre-school care for a total of 578 children of which 359 children (62.1%) received subsidized pre-school care. The canton's primary school program requires students to attend for four years. There were 10 students in the municipal primary school program. The obligatory lower secondary school program lasts for six years and there were 8 students in those schools.
, there were 16 students in Suscévaz who came from another municipality, while 31 residents attended schools outside the municipality.