Pampigny

. Pampigny is first mentioned in 1141 as Pampiniaco. ==Geography==

Pampigny had an area, , of . Of this area, or 57.7% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 36.5% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 5.0% is settled (buildings or roads), or 0.1% is either rivers or lakes and or 0.6% is unproductive land. Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 2.5% and transportation infrastructure made up 1.7%. Out of the forested land, all of the forested land area is covered with heavy forests. Of the agricultural land, 49.4% is used for growing crops and 8.1% is pastures. All the water in the municipality is in lakes. The former municipality is located at the foot of the Jura Mountains. ==Coat of arms==

The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Gules, two Crosses in slatire Argent, surrounded by four Acorns Or. ==Demographics==

Pampigny had a population (as of 2019) of 1,103. , 9.7% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1999–2009 ) the population has changed at a rate of 20.6%. It has changed at a rate of 14.9% due to migration and at a rate of 5.1% due to births and deaths. Most of the population () speaks French (765 or 92.4%), with German being second most common (33 or 4.0%) and English being third (12 or 1.4%). There are 4 people who speak Italian. , there were 376 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 374 married individuals, 40 widows or widowers and 38 individuals who are divorced. , there were 301 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.7 persons per household. there were 327 apartments in the municipality. The most common apartment size was 4 rooms of which there were 93. There were 12 single room apartments and 117 apartments with five or more rooms. Of these apartments, a total of 287 apartments (87.8% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 21 apartments (6.4%) were seasonally occupied and 19 apartments (5.8%) 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:830 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:1453 from:start till:480 bar:1453 at:490 fontsize:S text: "120 Hearths" shift:(8,5) bar:1764 from:start till:393 text:"393" bar:1850 from:start till:627 text:"627" bar:1860 from:start till:629 text:"629" bar:1870 from:start till:555 text:"555" bar:1880 from:start till:578 text:"578" bar:1888 from:start till:628 text:"628" bar:1900 from:start till:650 text:"650" bar:1910 from:start till:594 text:"594" bar:1920 from:start till:590 text:"590" bar:1930 from:start till:575 text:"575" bar:1941 from:start till:564 text:"564" bar:1950 from:start till:528 text:"528" bar:1960 from:start till:483 text:"483" bar:1970 from:start till:445 text:"445" bar:1980 from:start till:518 text:"518" bar:1990 from:start till:663 text:"663" bar:2000 from:start till:828 text:"828" ==Sights==

The entire village of Pampigny is designated as part of the Inventory of Swiss Heritage Sites. ==Politics==

In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SP which received 26.25% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SVP (20.44%), the Green Party (15.28%) and the FDP (12.76%). In the federal election, a total of 230 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 37.5%. ==Economy==

, Pampigny had an unemployment rate of 3.8%. , there were 60 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 23 businesses involved in this sector. 51 people were employed in the secondary sector and there were 11 businesses in this sector. 75 people were employed in the tertiary sector, with 24 businesses in this sector. , there were 64 workers who commuted into the municipality and 259 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 4.0 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering. Of the working population, 6.7% used public transportation to get to work, and 66.8% used a private car. ==Religion==

From the , 145 or 17.5% were Roman Catholic, while 480 or 58.0% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church. Of the rest of the population, there were 2 members of an Orthodox church (or about 0.24% of the population), and there were 118 individuals (or about 14.25% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There were 2 individuals (or about 0.24% of the population) who were Jewish, and there was 1 individual who was Islamic. There were 2 individuals who were Buddhist. 123 (or about 14.86% of the population) belonged to no church, are agnostic or atheist, and 14 individuals (or about 1.69% of the population) did not answer the question. ==Education==

In Pampigny about 270 or (32.6%) of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education, and 126 or (15.2%) have completed additional higher education (either university or a Fachhochschule). Of the 126 who completed tertiary schooling, 58.7% were Swiss men, 27.0% were Swiss women, 7.1% were non-Swiss men and 7.1% 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 78 students in the municipal primary school program. The obligatory lower secondary school program lasts for six years and there were 75 students in those schools. There were also 4 students who were home schooled or attended another non-traditional school. , there were 35 students in Pampigny who came from another municipality, while 144 residents attended schools outside the municipality. ==References==