Villars-d'Avry

Geschichte

Pont-en-Ogoz is a municipality in the district of Gruyère in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland. In 1970 the village of Pont-en-Ogoz merged with Villars-d'Avry into the municipality of Le Bry. Then, in 2003 the municipalities of Le Bry, Avry-devant-Pont and Gumefens merged to form a bigger Pont-en-Ogoz.GeographyPont-en-Ogoz has an area, of 10km2. Of this area, 6.49km2 or 64.8% is used for agricultural purposes, while 2.19km2 or 21.9% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 1.26km2 or 12.6% is settled (buildings or roads) and 0.01km2 or 0.1% is unproductive land.Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 6.2% and transportation infrastructure made up 5.2%. Out of the forested land, 20.0% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.9% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 8.7% is used for growing crops and 53.3% is pastures and 1.9% is used for alpine pastures.It consists of the villages of Pont-en-Ogoz, Villars-d'Avry, Avry-devant-Pont and Gumefens.DemographicsPont-en-Ogoz has a population of., 8.2% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (2000–2010) the population has changed at a rate of 20.9%. Migration accounted for 14.4%, while births and deaths accounted for 6.6%.Most of the population speaks French (392 or 92.5%) as their first language, German is the second most common (23 or 5.4%) and Portuguese is the third (4 or 0.9%).