Vandœuvres

Geschichte

Vandœuvres is a municipality of the Canton of Geneva, Switzerland.GeographyVandoeuvres has an area, of 4.41km2. Of this area, 1.72km2 or 39.0% is used for agricultural purposes, while 0.26km2 or 5.9% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 2.43km2 or 55.1% is settled (buildings or roads).Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 37.9% and transportation infrastructure made up 3.9%. Power and water infrastructure as well as other special developed areas made up 1.1% of the area while parks, green belts and sports fields made up 11.8%. Out of the forested land, 2.3% of the total land area is heavily forested and 3.6% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 28.6% is used for growing crops and 7.9% is pastures, while 2.5% is used for orchards or vine crops.The municipality of Vandoeuvres consists of the sub-sections or villages of Bessinge - La Rippaz, Vandoeuvres - village, Crête, Seymaz and Chougny.DemographicsVandoeuvres has a population of., 26.8% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1999–2009 ) the population has changed at a rate of 18%. It has changed at a rate of 15% due to migration and at a rate of 2% due to births and deaths.Most of the population speaks French (1,876 or 80.4%), with English being second most common (134 or 5.7%) and German being third (131 or 5.6%). There are 42 people who speak Italian and 1 person who speaks Romansh.