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Bioley-Magnoux is a municipality in the district of Jura-Nord Vaudois of the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.

History
Bioley-Magnoux is first mentioned in 1228 as Biolai. ==Geography==
Geography
Bioley-Magnoux has an area, , of . Of this area, or 66.5% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 26.2% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 6.8% is settled (buildings or roads), or 0.7% is either rivers or lakes and or 0.2% is unproductive land. Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 2.1% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.1%. Power and water infrastructure as well as other special developed areas made up 2.3% of the area Out of the forested land, 25.1% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.2% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 52.7% is used for growing crops and 13.1% is pastures. All the water in the municipality is flowing water. The municipality is located on the border of the Gros-de-Vaud and the Nord-Vaudois regions. It is situated on a plateau on the hillside above the right bank of the Mentu river. It consists of the linear village of Bioley-Magnoux. ==Coat of arms==
Coat of arms
The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Azure, a wavy chevron Or, around it three birch leaves Argent two over one, pointing to the middle chief. ==Demographics==
Demographics
Bioley-Magnoux has a population () of . , 4.4% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1999–2009 ) the population has changed at a rate of -4.5%. It has changed at a rate of -1.1% due to migration and at a rate of -3.4% due to births and deaths. Most of the population () speaks French (157 or 92.9%) as their first language, with German being second most common (9 or 5.3%) and Portuguese being third (2 or 1.2%). , there were 57 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 100 married individuals, 9 widows or widowers and 3 individuals who are divorced. , there were 68 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.5 persons per household. , a total of 62 apartments (87.3% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 8 apartments (11.3%) were seasonally occupied and one apartment was empty. Colors= id:lightgrey value:gray(0.9) id:darkgrey value:gray(0.8) ImageSize = width:1140 height:210 PlotArea = height:150 left:100 bottom:50 right:100 AlignBars = justify DateFormat = x.y Period = from:0 till:310 TimeAxis = orientation:vertical AlignBars = justify ScaleMajor = gridcolor:darkgrey increment:60 start:0 ScaleMinor = gridcolor:lightgrey increment:12 start:0 PlotData= color:yellowgreen width:40 mark:(line,white) align:center bar:1416 from:start till:80 bar:1416 at:90 fontsize:S text: "20 Hearths" shift:(8,5) bar:1453 from:start till:64 bar:1453 at:74 fontsize:S text: "ca.16 Hearths" shift:(8,5) bar:1764 from:start till:153 text:"153" bar:1850 from:start till:268 text:"268" bar:1860 from:start till:283 text:"283" bar:1870 from:start till:305 text:"305" bar:1880 from:start till:269 text:"269" bar:1888 from:start till:306 text:"306" bar:1900 from:start till:293 text:"293" bar:1910 from:start till:230 text:"230" bar:1920 from:start till:227 text:"227" bar:1930 from:start till:208 text:"208" bar:1941 from:start till:197 text:"197" bar:1950 from:start till:186 text:"186" bar:1960 from:start till:171 text:"171" bar:1970 from:start till:166 text:"166" bar:1980 from:start till:143 text:"143" bar:1990 from:start till:164 text:"164" bar:2000 from:start till:169 text:"169" ==Sights==
Sights
The village is known for its annual Ascension Day road race which attracts participation from the surrounding region. ==Politics==
Politics
In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SVP which received 52.19% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the FDP (18.81%), the SP (9.95%) and the Other (8.7%). In the federal election, a total of 74 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 58.7%. ==Economy==
Economy
, Bioley-Magnoux had an unemployment rate of 2.9%. , there were 22 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 8 businesses involved in this sector. 5 people were employed in the secondary sector and there were 3 businesses in this sector. 5 people were employed in the tertiary sector, with 1 business in this sector. , there were 48 workers who commuted away from the municipality. Of the working population, 2.8% used public transportation to get to work, and 66.2% used a private car. ==Religion==
Religion
From the , 13 or 7.7% were Roman Catholic, while 144 or 85.2% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church. Of the rest of the population, there was one individual who belongs to another Christian church, and one other individual who belonged to another church. Ten (or about 5.92% of the population) belonged to no church, are agnostic or atheist. ==Education==
Education
In Bioley-Magnoux about 64 or (37.9%) of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education, and 16 or (9.5%) have completed additional higher education (either university or a Fachhochschule). Of the 16 who completed tertiary schooling, 75.0% were Swiss men, 12.5% were Swiss women. During the school year, the political district provided pre-school care for a total of 578 children of which 359 children (62.1%) received subsidized pre-school care. The canton's primary school program requires students to attend for four years. There were 5 students in the municipal primary school program. The obligatory lower secondary school program lasts for six years and there were 11 students in those schools. , there were 28 students from Bioley-Magnoux who attended schools outside the municipality. ==References==
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