Villars-le-Terroir

Geschichte

Villars-le-Terroir is a municipality in the district of Gros-de-Vaud in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.GeographyVillars-le-Terroir has an area, of 7.09km2. Of this area, 5.47km2 or 77.2% is used for agricultural purposes, while 1.02km2 or 14.4% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 0.63km2 or 8.9% is settled (buildings or roads).Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 5.2% and transportation infrastructure made up 3.1%. Out of the forested land, all of the forested land area is covered with heavy forests. Of the agricultural land, 64.0% is used for growing crops and 12.8% is pastures.The municipality was part of the Echallens District until it was dissolved on 31 August 2006, and Villars-le-Terroir became part of the new district of Gros-de-Vaud.Coat of armsThe blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Azure, a Chevron Argent between three Bezants (Or) two and one.DemographicsVillars-le-Terroir has a population of., 5.8% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1999–2009 ) the population has changed at a rate of 19%. It has changed at a rate of 13.3% due to migration and at a rate of 4.7% due to births and deaths.Most of the population speaks French (600 or 94.2%), with German being second most common (16 or 2.5%) and Italian being third (5 or 0.8%).