Commugny

Commugny is first mentioned in 1018 as Communiacum. ==Geography==

, Coppet at the lake, right behind it Commugny (1930) Commugny has an area, , of . Of this area, or 60.4% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 19.8% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 18.6% is settled (buildings or roads), or 0.2% is either rivers or lakes and or 0.8% is unproductive land. Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 14.7% and transportation infrastructure made up 3.4%. Out of the forested land, all of the forested land area is covered with heavy forests. Of the agricultural land, 48.8% is used for growing crops and 3.4% is pastures, while 8.1% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is flowing water. The municipality is located near the French border. ==Coat of arms==

The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Gules, a Pallet Argent, overall a Bell Or. ==Demographics==

Commugny has a population () of . , 37.3% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1999–2009 ) the population has changed at a rate of 6.7%. It has changed at a rate of 0.9% due to migration and at a rate of 6.3% due to births and deaths. Most of the population () speaks French (1,715 or 65.9%), with English being second most common (443 or 17.0%) and German being third (215 or 8.3%). There are 28 people who speak Italian and 1 person who speaks Romansh. , there were 1,054 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 1,389 married individuals, 52 widows or widowers and 108 individuals who are divorced. , there were 869 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.8 persons per household. , a total of 814 apartments (88.2% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 98 apartments (10.6%) were seasonally occupied and 11 apartments (1.2%) 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:2700 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:1764 from:start till:249 text:"249" bar:1798 from:start till:282 text:"282" bar:1850 from:start till:249 text:"249" bar:1860 from:start till:243 text:"243" bar:1870 from:start till:314 text:"314" bar:1880 from:start till:302 text:"302" bar:1888 from:start till:332 text:"332" bar:1900 from:start till:308 text:"308" bar:1910 from:start till:304 text:"304" bar:1920 from:start till:265 text:"265" bar:1930 from:start till:287 text:"287" bar:1941 from:start till:296 text:"296" bar:1950 from:start till:337 text:"337" bar:1960 from:start till:439 text:"439" bar:1970 from:start till:880 text:"880" bar:1980 from:start till:1462 text:"1,462" bar:1990 from:start till:2026 text:"2,026" bar:2000 from:start till:2603 text:"2,603" ==Politics==

In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SVP which received 21.78% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the LPS Party (16.43%), the FDP (15.51%) and the Green Party (14.58%). In the federal election, a total of 622 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 48.3%. ==Economy==

, Commugny had an unemployment rate of 2.8%. , there were 28 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 10 businesses involved in this sector. 19 people were employed in the secondary sector and there were 8 businesses in this sector. 164 people were employed in the tertiary sector, with 62 businesses in this sector. , there were 92 workers who commuted into the municipality and 1,102 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 12.0 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering. About 9.8% of the workforce coming into Commugny are coming from outside Switzerland, while 0.3% of the locals commute out of Switzerland for work. Of the working population, 9.7% used public transportation to get to work, and 75.7% used a private car. ==Religion==

From the , 853 or 32.8% were Roman Catholic, while 802 or 30.8% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church. Of the rest of the population, there were 14 members of an Orthodox church (or about 0.54% of the population), there was 1 individual who belongs to the Christian Catholic Church, and there were 146 individuals (or about 5.61% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There were 12 individuals (or about 0.46% of the population) who were Jewish, and 48 (or about 1.84% of the population) who were Islamic. There were 7 individuals who were Buddhist, 5 individuals who were Hindu and 5 individuals who belonged to another church. 468 (or about 17.98% of the population) belonged to no church, are agnostic or atheist, and 293 individuals (or about 11.26% of the population) did not answer the question. Commugny lies on the Way of St. James, one of the pilgrimage routes to Santiago de Compostela. ==Education==

In Commugny about 676 or (26.0%) of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education, and 829 or (31.8%) have completed additional higher education (either university or a Fachhochschule). Of the 829 who completed tertiary schooling, 33.2% were Swiss men, 23.2% were Swiss women, 24.0% were non-Swiss men and 19.7% were non-Swiss women. During the school year, the political district provided pre-school care for a total of 1,249 children of which 563 children (45.1%) received subsidized pre-school care. The canton's primary school program requires students to attend for four years. There were 154 students in the municipal primary school program. The obligatory lower secondary school program lasts for six years and there were 127 students in those schools. There was also 1 student was home schooled or attended another non-traditional school. , there were 15 students in Commugny who came from another municipality, while 467 residents attended schools outside the municipality. ==Personalities==

• Commugny witnessed Jean Lanfray's murder of his wife and two children under the influence of absinthe and other hard liquors in 1905, which led to absinthe being banned in Switzerland. • George de Mestral, inventor of Velcro, lived and died in Commugny, where a road is named after him. ==Buildings==

File:Commugny Eglise.jpg|Commugny, Church of St. Christophe File:Commugny Maison de Commune.jpg|Commugny, Maison de Commune (administration offices) ==References==