Charrat

Geschichte

Charrat is a municipality in the district of Martigny in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.GeographyCharrat has an area, of 7.6km2. Of this area, 45.0% is used for agricultural purposes, while 40.1% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 12.0% is settled (buildings or roads) and 2.9% is unproductive land.The municipality is located in the Martigny district, on the left bank of the Rhone. It consists of the villages of Vison and Les Chênes and a development around the train station.Coat of armsThe blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Or a Bar ragully Vert a Lynx passant Sable armed Argent on a Chief Azure between two Mullets of Five Or an Oak branch Argent fructed Or.DemographicsCharrat has a population of., 26.3% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (2000–2010 ) the population has changed at a rate of 23.1%. It has changed at a rate of 21.2% due to migration and at a rate of 2.4% due to births and deaths.Most of the population speaks French (973 or 90.0%) as their first language, Portuguese is the second most common (30 or 2.8%) and Italian is the third (23 or 2.1%). There are 13 people who speak German., the gender distribution of the population was 52.1% male and 47.9% female. The population was made up of 500 Swiss men (36.8% of the population) and 208 (15.3%) non-Swiss men. There were 484 Swiss women (35.6%) and 167 (12.3%) non-Swiss women.