Villars-sous-Yens is a municipality in the Swiss canton of Vaud, located in the district of Morges.
Geography
Villars-sous-Yens has an area, , of . Of this area, or 76.6% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 16.4% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 6.6% is settled (buildings or roads).
Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 2.6% and transportation infrastructure made up 3.0%. Out of the forested land, 13.5% of the total land area is heavily forested and 3.0% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 59.2% is used for growing crops and 5.9% is pastures, while 11.5% is used for orchards or vine crops.
Coat of arms
The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Vert, a letter V Argent.
Demographics
Villars-sous-Yens has a population () of . , 10.4% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1999–2009) the population has changed at a rate of 6.6%. It has changed at a rate of 1.5% due to migration and at a rate of 5.5% due to births and deaths.
Most of the population () speaks French (519 or 92.7%), with German being second most common (18 or 3.2%) and English being third (5 or 0.9%). There are 2 people who speak Italian.
, there were 258 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 253 married individuals, 21 widows or widowers and 28 individuals who are divorced.
, there were 206 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.7 persons per household.
there were 211 apartments in the municipality. The most common apartment size was 4 rooms of which there were 64. There were 3 single room apartments and 76 apartments with five or more rooms. Of these apartments, a total of 199 apartments (94.3% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 9 apartments (4.3%) were seasonally occupied and 3 apartments (1.4%) were empty.
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Politics
In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SVP which received 23.43% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the Green Party (17.11%), the SP (16.79%) and the LPS Party (12.09%). In the federal election, a total of 181 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 50.1%.
Economy
, Villars-sous-Yens had an unemployment rate of 1.8%. , there were 59 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. 40 people were employed in the tertiary sector, with 14 businesses in this sector.
, there were 11 workers who commuted into the municipality and 229 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 20.8 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering. Of the working population, 11.1% used public transportation to get to work, and 69.3% 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 38 students in the municipal primary school program. The obligatory lower secondary school program lasts for six years and there were 44 students in those schools.
, there were 36 students in Villars-sous-Yens who came from another municipality, while 88 residents attended schools outside the municipality.