Grandcour

Grandcour is first mentioned in 1212 as apud grancort. ==Geography==

Grandcour has an area, , of . Of this area, or 78.9% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 14.4% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 6.8% is settled (buildings or roads), or 0.1% is either rivers or lakes. Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 3.4% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.9%. Out of the forested land, all of the forested land area is covered with heavy forests. Of the agricultural land, 69.3% is used for growing crops and 8.5% is pastures, while 1.1% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is flowing water. The municipality is located in the Payerne district, Umfasst das Dorf G. und die Weiler Ressudens und Chesard; Vernay ist im 15. Jh. verschwunden.. It consists of the village of Grandcour and the hamlets of Bez. Payerne. Umfasst das Dorf G. und die Weiler Ressudens und Chesard; Vernay ist im 15. Jh. verschwunden.. ==Coat of arms==

The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Pally of Six Argent and Azure, in second Pale in chief a Mullet of Five pierced Or; overall on a Bend Gules three Escallops bendwise Or. ==Demographics==

Grandcour has a population () of . , 4.3% 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 2.8% due to migration and at a rate of 2% due to births and deaths. Most of the population () speaks French (680 or 93.2%), with German being second most common (30 or 4.1%) and Portuguese being third (13 or 1.8%). There are 5 people who speak Italian. , there were 283 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 377 married individuals, 51 widows or widowers and 19 individuals who are divorced. , there were 296 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.4 persons per household. there were 326 apartments in the municipality. The most common apartment size was 4 rooms of which there were 88. There were 8 single room apartments and 108 apartments with five or more rooms. Of these apartments, a total of 282 apartments (86.5% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 31 apartments (9.5%) were seasonally occupied and 13 apartments (4.0%) were 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:810 TimeAxis = orientation:vertical AlignBars = justify ScaleMajor = gridcolor:darkgrey increment:200 start:0 ScaleMinor = gridcolor:lightgrey increment:40 start:0 PlotData= color:yellowgreen width:40 mark:(line,white) align:center bar:1550 from:start till:240 bar:1550 at:250 fontsize:S text: "60 Hearths" shift:(8,5) bar:1764 from:start till:431 text:"431" bar:1798 from:start till:581 text:"581" bar:1850 from:start till:716 text:"716" bar:1860 from:start till:751 text:"751" bar:1870 from:start till:782 text:"782" bar:1880 from:start till:748 text:"748" bar:1888 from:start till:757 text:"757" bar:1900 from:start till:725 text:"725" bar:1910 from:start till:802 text:"802" bar:1920 from:start till:800 text:"800" bar:1930 from:start till:767 text:"767" bar:1941 from:start till:719 text:"719" bar:1950 from:start till:764 text:"764" bar:1960 from:start till:700 text:"700" bar:1970 from:start till:642 text:"642" bar:1980 from:start till:692 text:"692" bar:1990 from:start till:704 text:"704" bar:2000 from:start till:730 text:"730" ==Heritage sites of national significance==

Grandcour Castle and the Swiss Reformed Church of Notre-Dame de Ressudens are listed as Swiss heritage site of national significance. The entire village of Grandcour is part of the Inventory of Swiss Heritage Sites. File:Grandcour - Château.jpg|Grancour Castle File:Grandcour - église réformée.jpg ==Politics==

In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SVP which received 33.35% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the FDP (21.58%), the SP (14.58%) and the LPS Party (8.86%). In the federal election, a total of 264 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 46.6%. ==Economy==

, Grandcour had an unemployment rate of 2.6%. , there were 92 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 34 businesses involved in this sector. 36 people were employed in the secondary sector and there were 11 businesses in this sector. 87 people were employed in the tertiary sector, with 17 businesses in this sector. , there were 40 workers who commuted into the municipality and 242 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 6.1 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering. Of the working population, 6% used public transportation to get to work, and 64% used a private car. ==Religion==

From the , 121 or 16.6% were Roman Catholic, while 494 or 67.7% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church. Of the rest of the population, there were 2 members of an Orthodox church (or about 0.27% of the population), and there were 29 individuals (or about 3.97% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There were 4 individuals who belonged to another church. 46 (or about 6.30% of the population) belonged to no church, are agnostic or atheist, and 34 individuals (or about 4.66% of the population) did not answer the question. ==Education==

In Grandcour about 273 or (37.4%) of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education, and 70 or (9.6%) have completed additional higher education (either university or a Fachhochschule). Of the 70 who completed tertiary schooling, 68.6% were Swiss men, 27.1% were Swiss women. During the school year, the political district provided pre-school care for a total of 155 children of which 83 children (53.5%) received subsidized pre-school care. The canton's primary school program requires students to attend for four years. There were 55 students in the municipal primary school program. The obligatory lower secondary school program lasts for six years and there were 57 students in those schools. There were also 1 students who were home schooled or attended another non-traditional school. , there were 27 students in Grandcour who came from another municipality, while 94 residents attended schools outside the municipality. ==References==