Valeyres-sous-Rances

Geschichte

Valeyres-sous-Rances is a municipality in the district of Jura-Nord Vaudois in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.GeographyValeyres-sous-Rances has an area, of 6.4km2. Of this area, 5.2km2 or 81.6% is used for agricultural purposes, while 0.7km2 or 11.0% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 0.44km2 or 6.9% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.04km2 or 0.6% is either rivers or lakes and 0.01km2 or 0.2% is unproductive land.Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 3.0% and transportation infrastructure made up 3.5%. Out of the forested land, 9.1% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.9% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 69.9% is used for growing crops and 8.2% is pastures, while 3.6% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is flowing water.The municipality was part of the Orbe District until it was dissolved on 31 August 2006, and Valeyres-sous-Rances became part of the new district of Jura-Nord Vaudois.Coat of armsThe blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Vert, a Bend wavy Argent, in Chief three Wheat Ears Or, two and one, in base a Grape-bunch of the sameDemographicsValeyres-sous-Rances has a population of., 15.2% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1999–2009 ) the population has changed at a rate of 0%. It has changed at a rate of -2.4% due to migration and at a rate of 2.6% due to births and deaths.