Belmont-sur-Lausanne

Belmont-sur-Lausanne is first mentioned in 1228 as Belmunt sowie apud bellum Montem. ==Geography==

Belmont-sur-Lausanne has an area, , of . Of this area, or 35.1% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 29.8% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 33.2% is settled (buildings or roads). Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 23.8% and transportation infrastructure made up 5.7%. Power and water infrastructure as well as other special developed areas made up 3.0% of the area Out of the forested land, 26.8% of the total land area is heavily forested and 3.0% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 15.8% is used for growing crops and 16.6% is pastures, while 2.6% is used for orchards or vine crops. The municipality is located on a hill above Lake Geneva, east of the Paudèze valley. It consists of the village of Belmont-sur-Lausanne, the hamlet of Rochettaz and the ruins of the village of Les Chaffaises (grinding mill and sawmill). ==Coat of arms==

The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Gules, a triple mount Or, in chief Argent three May-beetles proper. ==Demographics==

Belmont-sur-Lausanne has a population () of . , 23.9% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1999–2009 ) the population has changed at a rate of 41.4%. It has changed at a rate of 29.1% due to migration and at a rate of 11.6% due to births and deaths. Most of the population () speaks French (2,058 or 87.3%), with German being second most common (139 or 5.9%) and English being third (38 or 1.6%). There are 36 people who speak Italian and 1 person who speaks Romansh. , there were 951 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 1,190 married individuals, 68 widows or widowers and 149 individuals who are divorced. , there were 988 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.4 persons per household. there were 1,115 apartments in the municipality. The most common apartment size was 4 rooms of which there were 360. There were 42 single room apartments and 334 apartments with five or more rooms. Of these apartments, a total of 963 apartments (86.4% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 136 apartments (12.2%) were seasonally occupied and 16 apartments (1.4%) were empty. Colors= id:lightgrey value:gray(0.9) id:darkgrey value:gray(0.8) ImageSize = width:1080 height:210 PlotArea = height:150 left:100 bottom:50 right:100 AlignBars = justify DateFormat = x.y Period = from:0 till:2400 TimeAxis = orientation:vertical AlignBars = justify ScaleMajor = gridcolor:darkgrey increment:500 start:0 ScaleMinor = gridcolor:lightgrey increment:100 start:0 PlotData= color:yellowgreen width:40 mark:(line,white) align:center bar:1709 from:start till:130 text:"130" bar:1764 from:start till:181 text:"181" bar:1850 from:start till:455 text:"455" bar:1860 from:start till:514 text:"514" bar:1870 from:start till:503 text:"503" bar:1880 from:start till:449 text:"449" bar:1888 from:start till:437 text:"437" bar:1900 from:start till:491 text:"491" bar:1910 from:start till:482 text:"482" bar:1920 from:start till:365 text:"365" bar:1930 from:start till:374 text:"374" bar:1941 from:start till:347 text:"347" bar:1950 from:start till:405 text:"405" bar:1960 from:start till:529 text:"529" bar:1970 from:start till:873 text:"873" bar:1980 from:start till:1415 text:"1,415" bar:1990 from:start till:2077 text:"2,077" bar:2000 from:start till:2358 text:"2,358" ==Politics==

In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SP which received 20.75% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the Green Party (16.7%), the SVP (16.58%) and the FDP (13.69%). In the federal election, a total of 916 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 50.3%. ==Economy==

, Belmont-sur-Lausanne had an unemployment rate of 4.9%. , there were 26 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 5 businesses involved in this sector. 55 people were employed in the secondary sector and there were 14 businesses in this sector. 311 people were employed in the tertiary sector, with 68 businesses in this sector. , there were 191 workers who commuted into the municipality and 1,081 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 5.7 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering. Of the working population, 13% used public transportation to get to work, and 72.6% used a private car. ==Religion==

From the , 842 or 35.7% were Roman Catholic, while 905 or 38.4% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church. Of the rest of the population, there were 19 members of an Orthodox church (or about 0.81% of the population), there were 4 individuals (or about 0.17% of the population) who belonged to the Christian Catholic Church, and there were 69 individuals (or about 2.93% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There were 19 individuals (or about 0.81% of the population) who were Jewish, and 27 (or about 1.15% of the population) who were Islamic. There were 7 individuals who were Buddhist, 3 individuals who were Hindu and 5 individuals who belonged to another church. 406 (or about 17.22% of the population) belonged to no church, are agnostic or atheist, and 82 individuals (or about 3.48% of the population) did not answer the question. ==Education==

In Belmont-sur-Lausanne about 886 or (37.6%) of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education, and 613 or (26.0%) have completed additional higher education (either university or a Fachhochschule). Of the 613 who completed tertiary schooling, 49.9% were Swiss men, 28.9% were Swiss women, 10.3% were non-Swiss men and 10.9% were non-Swiss women. During the school year, the political district provided pre-school care for a total of 665 children of which 232 children (34.9%) received subsidized pre-school care. The canton's primary school program requires students to attend for four years. There were 229 students in the municipal primary school program. The obligatory lower secondary school program lasts for six years and there were 211 students in those schools. There were also 2 students who were home schooled or attended another non-traditional school. , there were 129 students in Belmont-sur-Lausanne who came from another municipality, while 254 residents attended schools outside the municipality. ==References==