Montricher

Montricher is first mentioned in 1049 as Mons Richarius. In 1301 it was mentioned as Montricher. ==Geography==

Montricher has an area, , of . Of this area, or 38.6% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 57.4% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 3.0% is settled (buildings or roads), or 0.1% is either rivers or lakes and or 0.7% is unproductive land. Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 1.0% and transportation infrastructure made up 1.5%. Out of the forested land, 53.9% of the total land area is heavily forested and 3.5% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 17.3% is used for growing crops and 9.4% is pastures and 11.6% is used for alpine pastures. All the water in the municipality is flowing water. The municipality is located in the forested foothills of the Jura Mountains. The municipality includes the peak of Mont Tendre, which is the highest peak in the Swiss Jura Mountains. It has an elevation of . ==Coat of arms==

The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Argent, in Chief Gules three Escallops Or. ==Demographics==

Montricher has a population () of . , 8.0% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1999–2009 ) the population has changed at a rate of 14.9%. It has changed at a rate of 11.4% due to migration and at a rate of 3% due to births and deaths. Most of the population () speaks French (642 or 92.2%), with German being second most common (25 or 3.6%) and English being third (11 or 1.6%). There are 6 people who speak Italian. , there were 292 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 341 married individuals, 28 widows or widowers and 35 individuals who are divorced. , there were 290 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.3 persons per household. there were 333 apartments in the municipality. The most common apartment size was 4 rooms of which there were 103. There were 11 single room apartments and 101 apartments with five or more rooms. Of these apartments, a total of 286 apartments (85.9% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 31 apartments (9.3%) were seasonally occupied and 16 apartments (4.8%) 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:790 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:1798 from:start till:364 text:"364" bar:1803 from:start till:395 text:"395" bar:1850 from:start till:695 text:"695" bar:1860 from:start till:745 text:"745" bar:1870 from:start till:785 text:"785" bar:1880 from:start till:733 text:"733" bar:1888 from:start till:730 text:"730" bar:1900 from:start till:727 text:"727" bar:1910 from:start till:742 text:"742" bar:1920 from:start till:749 text:"749" bar:1930 from:start till:658 text:"658" bar:1941 from:start till:658 text:"658" bar:1950 from:start till:619 text:"619" bar:1960 from:start till:543 text:"543" bar:1970 from:start till:499 text:"499" bar:1980 from:start till:581 text:"581" bar:1990 from:start till:669 text:"669" bar:2000 from:start till:696 text:"696" ==Politics==

In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SVP which received 23.11% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SP (22.04%), the FDP (19.83%) and the Green Party (16.64%). In the federal election, a total of 280 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 52.8%. ==Economy==

, Montricher had an unemployment rate of 3.8%. , there were 61 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 26 businesses involved in this sector. 14 people were employed in the secondary sector and there were 9 businesses in this sector. 122 people were employed in the tertiary sector, with 27 businesses in this sector. , there were 44 workers who commuted into the municipality and 245 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 5.6 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering. Of the working population, 7% used public transportation to get to work, and 61.7% used a private car. The municipality is served by a station on the Bière–Apples–Morges railway. ==Religion==

From the , 99 or 14.2% were Roman Catholic, while 430 or 61.8% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church. Of the rest of the population, there were 36 individuals (or about 5.17% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There were 2 individuals (or about 0.29% of the population) who were Jewish, and 3 (or about 0.43% of the population) who were Islamic. 133 (or about 19.11% of the population) belonged to no church, are agnostic or atheist, and 7 individuals (or about 1.01% of the population) did not answer the question. ==Education==

In Montricher about 301 or (43.2%) of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education, and 81 or (11.6%) have completed additional higher education (either university or a Fachhochschule). Of the 81 who completed tertiary schooling, 53.1% were Swiss men, 38.3% were Swiss women and 6.2% were non-Swiss women. During the school year, the political district provided pre-school care for a total of 631 children of which 203 children (32.2%) received subsidized pre-school care. The canton's primary school program requires students to attend for four years. There were 59 students in the municipal primary school program. The obligatory lower secondary school program lasts for six years and there were 63 students in those schools. , there were 26 students in Montricher who came from another municipality, while 78 residents attended schools outside the municipality. == References ==