Avry-sur-Matran

Geschichte

Avry is a municipality in the district of Sarine in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland. The municipality is the result of the 1 January 2001 union of Avry-sur-Matran and Corjolens.GeographyAvry has an area, of 5.8km2. Of this area, 4.21km2 or 72.2% is used for agricultural purposes, while 0.67km2 or 11.5% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 0.92km2 or 15.8% is settled (buildings or roads) and 0.01km2 or 0.2% is unproductive land.Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 1.7% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 8.4% and transportation infrastructure made up 5.0%. Out of the forested land, all of the forested land area is covered with heavy forests. Of the agricultural land, 53.7% is used for growing crops and 17.8% is pastures.Coat of armsThe blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Chevrony of six Argent and Sable. This coat of arms is the same as the one from the former municipality of Avry-sur-Matran.DemographicsAvry has a population of., 13.3% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (2000–2010) the population has changed at a rate of 29.6%. Migration accounted for 22.4%, while births and deaths accounted for 7.7%.Most of the population speaks French (1,047 or 86.2%) as their first language, German is the second most common (99 or 8.1%) and Albanian is the third (13 or 1.1%). There are 12 people who speak Italian.