Vaux-sur-Morges is a municipality in the Swiss canton of Vaud, located in the district of Morges.
Geography
Vaux-sur-Morges has an area, , of . Of this area, or 74.8% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 13.3% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 10.5% is settled (buildings or roads).
Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 4.8% and transportation infrastructure made up 4.8%. Out of the forested land, 9.5% of the total land area is heavily forested and 3.8% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 61.4% is used for growing crops and 9.5% is pastures, while 3.8% is used for orchards or vine crops.
Coat of arms
The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Gules, a Bar Argent between three Escallops Or, two and one.
Demographics
Vaux-sur-Morges has a population () of . , 12.1% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1999–2009 ) the population has changed at a rate of 24.6%. It has changed at a rate of 13% due to migration and at a rate of 13.8% due to births and deaths.
Most of the population () speaks French (139 or 88.0%), with English being second most common (11 or 7.0%) and German being third (5 or 3.2%).
, there were 63 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 82 married individuals, 8 widows or widowers and 5 individuals who are divorced.
, there were 55 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.8 persons per household.
there were 57 apartments in the municipality. The most common apartment size was 5 rooms of which there were 18. There were 1 single room apartments and 39 apartments with five or more rooms. Of these apartments, a total of 54 apartments (94.7% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 3 apartments (5.3%) were seasonally occupied.
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Politics
In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SVP which received 25.2% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the LPS Party (15.83%), the CVP (14.47%) and the FDP (12.65%). In the federal election, a total of 66 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 61.7%.
Economy
, Vaux-sur-Morges had an unemployment rate of 1.2%. , there were 19 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 8 businesses involved in this sector. 11 people were employed in the secondary sector and there were 2 businesses in this sector. 7 people were employed in the tertiary sector, with 4 businesses in this sector.
, there were 7 workers who commuted into the municipality and 63 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 9.0 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering. Of the working population, 8.3% used public transportation to get to work, and 66.7% 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 18 students in the municipal primary school program. The obligatory lower secondary school program lasts for six years and there were 14 students in those schools.
, there were 3 students in Vaux-sur-Morges who came from another municipality, while 29 residents attended schools outside the municipality.