Meyrin

Meyrin is first mentioned in 1153 as Mairin. ==Geography==

of the community. Meyrin has an area, , of . Of this area, or 35.6% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 4.3% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 59.1% is settled (buildings or roads), or 0.1% is either rivers or lakes and or 0.8% is unproductive land. Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 11.1% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 17.7% and transportation infrastructure made up 25.8%. while parks, green belts and sports fields made up 3.5%. Out of the forested land, all of the forested land area is covered with heavy forests. Of the agricultural land, 28.5% is used for growing crops and 4.8% is pastures, while 2.3% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is in lakes. ==Demographics==

File:TCMC (Tramway Cornavin - Meyrin - CERN).JPG|thumb| TCMC (Tramway Cornavin - Meyrin - CERN) at the stop of TPG n° 18 ligne - Hôpital de La Tour Meyrin has a population () of . , 41.5% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1999–2009 ) the population has changed at a rate of 13.7%. It has changed at a rate of 7.5% due to migration and at a rate of 6.3% due to births and deaths. Most of the population () speaks French (14,320 or 73.3%), with German being second most common (817 or 4.2%) and Italian being third (809 or 4.1%). There are 12 people who speak Romansh. Of the population in the municipality 3,745 or about 19.2% were born in Meyrin and lived there in 2000. There were 3,273 or 16.7% who were born in the same canton, while 2,876 or 14.7% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 7,985 or 40.8% were born outside of Switzerland. , there were 7,938 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.3 persons per household. there were 8,692 apartments in the municipality. The most common apartment size was 3 rooms of which there were 2,677. There were 787 single room apartments and 1,260 apartments with five or more rooms. Of these apartments, a total of 7,734 apartments (89.0% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 776 apartments (8.9%) were seasonally occupied and 182 apartments (2.1%) 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:20000 TimeAxis = orientation:vertical AlignBars = justify ScaleMajor = gridcolor:darkgrey increment:4000 start:0 ScaleMinor = gridcolor:lightgrey increment:800 start:0 PlotData= color:yellowgreen width:40 mark:(line,white) align:center bar:1550 from:start till:216 bar:1550 at:226 fontsize:S text: "54 Hearths" shift:(8,5) bar:1667 from:start till:150 text:"150" bar:1850 from:start till:597 text:"597" bar:1860 from:start till:657 text:"657" bar:1870 from:start till:610 text:"610" bar:1880 from:start till:621 text:"621" bar:1888 from:start till:666 text:"666" bar:1900 from:start till:856 text:"856" bar:1910 from:start till:1039 text:"1,039" bar:1920 from:start till:1325 text:"1,325" bar:1930 from:start till:1709 text:"1,709" bar:1941 from:start till:1945 text:"1,945" bar:1950 from:start till:2063 text:"2,063" bar:1960 from:start till:3215 text:"3,215" bar:1970 from:start till:14255 text:"14,255" bar:1980 from:start till:18808 text:"18,808" bar:1990 from:start till:19519 text:"19,519" bar:2000 from:start till:19548 text:"19,548" ==Heritage sites of national significance==

The Mani House and the CERN Archives are listed as Swiss heritage site of national significance. ==Politics==

In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SVP which received 25.6% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SP (19.67%), the Green Party (14.62%) and the FDP (9.92%). In the federal election, a total of 4,041 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 42.6%. In the 2009 Grand Conseil election, there were a total of 9,517 registered voters of which 3,437 (36.1%) voted. The most popular party in the municipality for this election was the MCG with 21.0% of the ballots. In the canton-wide election they received the third highest proportion of votes. The second most popular party was the Les Socialistes (with 11.4%), they were fourth in the canton-wide election, while the third most popular party was the Les Verts (with 11.3%), they were second in the canton-wide election. For the 2009 Conseil d'Etat election, there were a total of 9,525 registered voters of which 4,070 (42.7%) voted. In 2011, all the municipalities held local elections, and in Meyrin there were 33 spots open on the municipal council. There were a total of 13,619 registered voters of which 5,043 (37.0%) voted. Out of the 5,043 votes, there were 24 blank votes, 68 null or unreadable votes and 333 votes with a name that was not on the list. ==Economy==

, Meyrin had an unemployment rate of 7%. , there were 50 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 13 businesses involved in this sector. 4,198 people were employed in the secondary sector and there were 197 businesses in this sector. 13,422 people were employed in the tertiary sector, with 860 businesses in this sector. , there were 15,939 workers who commuted into the municipality and 7,242 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net importer of workers, with about 2.2 workers entering the municipality for every one leaving. About 13.9% of the workforce coming into Meyrin are coming from outside Switzerland, while 0.2% of the locals commute out of Switzerland for work. Of the working population, 28.2% used public transportation to get to work, and 55.5% used a private car. EasyJet Switzerland has its head office in Meyrin. Club Airways International has its head office on the grounds of Geneva Airport and in Meyrin. Hewlett-Packard operates its Europe, Middle East, and Africa office in Meyrin. The Swiss watch and jewellery designer and manufacture Chopard has its global headquarters in Meyrin. It is also where most watches, including lines such as the Mille Miglia and Happy Sporty, are made, as well as jewellery the Palme d'Or for the Cannes Film Festival. The other site, based in Fleurier, produces a lot of the L.U.Chopard watches. ==Religion==

From the , 7,833 or 40.1% were Roman Catholic, while 2,867 or 14.7% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church. Of the rest of the population, there were 281 members of an Orthodox church (or about 1.44% of the population), there were 28 individuals (or about 0.14% of the population) who belonged to the Christian Catholic Church, and there were 363 individuals (or about 1.86% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There were 60 individuals (or about 0.31% of the population) who were Jewish, and 1,207 (or about 6.17% of the population) who were Muslim. There were 104 individuals who were Buddhist, 51 individuals who were Hindu and 36 individuals who belonged to another church. 4,186 (or about 21.41% of the population) belonged to no church, are agnostic or atheist, and 2,532 individuals (or about 12.95% of the population) did not answer the question. ==Education==

In Meyrin about 5,924 or (30.3%) of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education, and 2,712 or (13.9%) have completed additional higher education (either university or a Fachhochschule). Of the 2,712 who completed tertiary schooling, 34.8% were Swiss men, 24.3% were Swiss women, 24.3% were non-Swiss men and 16.6% were non-Swiss women. During that school year, there were 285 children who were in a pre-kindergarten class. The canton's school system provides two years of non-mandatory kindergarten and requires students to attend six years of primary school, with some of the children attending smaller, specialized classes. In Meyrin there were 712 students in kindergarten or primary school and 93 students were in the special, smaller classes. The secondary school program consists of three lower, obligatory years of schooling, followed by three to five years of optional, advanced schools. There were 712 lower secondary students who attended school in Meyrin. There were 1,010 upper secondary students from the municipality along with 164 students who were in a professional, non-university track program. An additional 153 students attended a private school. , there were 341 students in Meyrin who came from another municipality, while 1,147 residents attended schools outside the municipality. Public libraries Meyrin has a bibliotheque municipale within the Forum Meyrin theatre complex. ==Transportation==

The municipality has two railway stations, and . Both are on the Lyon–Geneva line and have regular service to , , and . ==Sport==

FC Meyrin is the municipality's football club. CP Meyrin is the town's ice hockey team. They currently play in the 1st division, the fourth tier of Swiss ice hockey. They play their home games in the 800-seat Patinoire des Vergers. ==Notable people==

• Louis Rendu (1789 in Meyrin – 1859) French Roman Catholic Bishop of Annecy and a scientist. • Emma Kammacher (1904 in Meyrin – 1981) lawyer, activist and politician • Monique Bauer-Lagier (1922 in Meyrin - 2006) politician, women's rights featured strongly on her political agenda. • Séverine Pont-Combe (born 1979 in Meyrin) ski mountaineer and long-distance runner • Mwambutsa IV Bangiricenge, Mwami of the Kingdom of Burundi is interred in Meyrin. • Nicholas Medforth-Mills (born 1985 in Meyrin) formerly Prince Nicholas of Romania, son of Princess Elena of Romania and grandson of Michael I • Alexander, Archduke of Austria (born in Meyrin in 1990) ==References==