Valeyres-sous-Ursins (, literally Valeyres under Ursins) is a municipality in the district of Jura-Nord Vaudois of the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.
History
Valeyres-sous-Ursins is first mentioned in 1184 as de Valeres.
Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 2.4% and transportation infrastructure made up 1.0%. Out of the forested land, all of the forested land area is covered with heavy forests. Of the agricultural land, 63.2% is used for growing crops and 10.4% is pastures, while 2.1% is used for orchards or vine crops.
The municipalities of Cronay, Cuarny, Pomy, Ursins, Valeyres-sous-Ursins and Villars-Epeney are considering a merger on at a date in the future into the new municipality with an, , undetermined name.
Coat of arms
The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Vert, two Bars wavy Argent, overall a Cup Or.
Demographics
Valeyres-sous-Ursins has a population () of . , 4.8% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1999–2009 ) the population has changed at a rate of 32.2%. It has changed at a rate of 27.6% due to migration and at a rate of 5.7% due to births and deaths.
Most of the population () speaks French (172 or 95.6%) as their first language, with German being second most common (2 or 1.1%) and Italian being third (2 or 1.1%).
, there were 68 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 102 married individuals, 4 widows or widowers and 6 individuals who are divorced.
, there were 73 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.5 persons per household.
, a total of 71 apartments (95.9% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 1 apartment was 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 45.36% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the Green Party (16.17%), the SP (12.32%) and the EDU Party (10.69%). In the federal election, a total of 111 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 73.5%.
Economy
, Valeyres-sous-Ursins had an unemployment rate of 3.1%. , there were 26 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 12 businesses involved in this sector. 5 people were employed in the secondary sector and there was 1 business in this sector. 5 people were employed in the tertiary sector, with 4 businesses in this sector.
, there were 9 workers who commuted into the municipality and 67 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 7.4 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering. Of the working population, 6% used public transportation to get to work, and 64% 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 19 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 was one student in Valeyres-sous-Ursins who came from another municipality, while 32 residents attended schools outside the municipality.