Villars-Burquin is a former municipality in the district of Jura-Nord Vaudois in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.
The municipalities of Fontanezier, Romairon, Vaugondry and Villars-Burquin merged on 1 July 2011 into the new municipality of Tévenon.
Geography
Villars-Burquin has an area, , of . Of this area, or 33.2% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 61.0% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 5.4% is settled (buildings or roads) and or 0.4% is unproductive land.
Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 3.9% and transportation infrastructure made up 0.8%. Out of the forested land, 56.4% of the total land area is heavily forested and 4.6% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 3.7% is used for growing crops and 19.9% is pastures, while 1.9% is used for orchards or vine crops and 7.7% is used for alpine pastures.
Coat of arms
The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Or, on two Pine Branches in saltire a Wren proper.
Demographics
Villars-Burquin has a population () of 565. Over the last 10 years (1999–2009 ) the population has changed at a rate of 18%. It has changed at a rate of 15.7% due to migration and at a rate of 2.3% due to births and deaths.
Most of the population () speaks French (460 or 91.3%), with German being second most common (24 or 4.8%) and Italian being third (4 or 0.8%).
, there were 182 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 240 married individuals, 44 widows or widowers and 38 individuals who are divorced.
the average number of residents per living room was 0.56 which is about equal to the cantonal average of 0.61 per room. About 62.5% of the total households were owner occupied, or in other words did not pay rent (though they may have a mortgage or a rent-to-own agreement).
, there were 197 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.4 persons per household.
there were 240 apartments in the municipality. The most common apartment size was 4 rooms of which there were 76. There were 8 single room apartments and 72 apartments with five or more rooms. Of these apartments, a total of 192 apartments (80.0% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 39 apartments (16.3%) were seasonally occupied and 9 apartments (3.8%) were empty.
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Politics
In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SVP which received 30.21% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SP (20.41%), the Green Party (17.08%) and the FDP (11.57%). In the federal election, a total of 191 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 51.1%.
Economy
, Villars-Burquin had an unemployment rate of 5.3%. , there were 15 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 5 businesses involved in this sector. 30 people were employed in the secondary sector and there were 3 businesses in this sector. 49 people were employed in the tertiary sector, with 9 businesses in this sector.
, there were 36 workers who commuted into the municipality and 171 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 4.8 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering. About 11.1% of the workforce coming into Villars-Burquin are coming from outside Switzerland. Of the working population, 9.2% used public transportation to get to work, and 69.4% 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 37 students in the municipal primary school program. The obligatory lower secondary school program lasts for six years and there were 28 students in those schools.
, there were 3 students in Villars-Burquin who came from another municipality, while 77 residents attended schools outside the municipality.