Prilly

Prilly is first mentioned around 976-77 as . By 1185 it was known as Prillie. ==Geography==

Prilly has an area, , of (depending on calculation method). Of this area, or 11.0% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 6.4% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 82.2% is settled (buildings or roads). Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 6.4% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 51.6% and transportation infrastructure made up 15.1%. while parks, green belts and sports fields made up 9.1%. Out of the forested land, all of the forested land area is covered with heavy forests. Of the agricultural land, 7.8% is used for growing crops and 2.7% is pastures. The village of Prilly is developed along the Lausanne-Jougne street and is now part of the agglomeration of Lausanne. It consists of the village of Prilly and the hamlets of Le Chasseur, La Fleur-de-Lys and L'Union, all three of which developed along the Prilly-Neuchâtel road. ==Coat of arms==

The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Party gules and vert, a fleur de lys or, overall. ==Demographics==

Prilly has a population () of . , 36.9% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1999–2009) the population has changed at a rate of 7.5%. It has changed at a rate of 6.1% due to migration and at a rate of 2.9% due to births and deaths. Most of the population () speaks French (8,774 or 80.1%), with Italian being second most common (503 or 4.6%) and German being third (364 or 3.3%). There are 6 people who speak Romansh. , there were 4,181 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 5,160 married individuals, 795 widows or widowers and 819 individuals who are divorced. , there were 5,437 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.0 persons per household. there were 6,011 apartments in the municipality. The most common apartment size was 3 rooms of which there were 2,217. There were 572 single room apartments and 467 apartments with five or more rooms. Of these apartments, a total of 5,337 apartments (88.8% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 519 apartments (8.6%) were seasonally occupied and 155 apartments (2.6%) 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:14000 TimeAxis = orientation:vertical AlignBars = justify ScaleMajor = gridcolor:darkgrey increment:3000 start:0 ScaleMinor = gridcolor:lightgrey increment:600 start:0 PlotData= color:yellowgreen width:40 mark:(line,white) align:center bar:1416 from:start till:112 bar:1416 at:122 fontsize:S text: "28 Hearths" shift:(8,5) bar:1550 from:start till:40 bar:1550 at:50 fontsize:S text: "10 Hearths" shift:(8,5) bar:1764 from:start till:114 text:"114" bar:1850 from:start till:309 text:"309" bar:1860 from:start till:353 text:"353" bar:1870 from:start till:550 text:"550" bar:1880 from:start till:991 text:"991" bar:1888 from:start till:1203 text:"1,203" bar:1900 from:start till:1569 text:"1,569" bar:1910 from:start till:2358 text:"2,358" bar:1920 from:start till:2411 text:"2,411" bar:1930 from:start till:3276 text:"3,276" bar:1941 from:start till:3440 text:"3,440" bar:1950 from:start till:3992 text:"3,992" bar:1960 from:start till:8430 text:"8,430" bar:1970 from:start till:13352 text:"13,352" bar:1980 from:start till:11931 text:"11,931" bar:1990 from:start till:11284 text:"11,284" bar:2000 from:start till:10955 text:"10,955" ==Politics==

In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SP which received 25.87% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SVP (20.75%), the FDP (15.11%) and the Green Party (13.83%). In the federal election, a total of 2,423 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 41.9%. ==Economy==

, Prilly had an unemployment rate of 5.7%. , there were 2 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 1 business involved in this sector. 1,699 people were employed in the secondary sector and there were 62 businesses in this sector. 3,369 people were employed in the tertiary sector, with 258 businesses in this sector. , there were 4,664 workers who commuted into the municipality and 4,153 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net importer of workers, with about 1.1 workers entering the municipality for every one leaving. About 2.9% of the workforce coming into Prilly are coming from outside Switzerland. Of the working population, 32.6% used public transportation to get to work, and 48.6% used a private car. ==Religion==

From the , 4,357 or 39.8% were Roman Catholic, while 3,588 or 32.8% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church. Of the rest of the population, there were 221 members of an Orthodox church (or about 2.02% of the population), there were 9 individuals (or about 0.08% of the population) who belonged to the Christian Catholic Church, and there were 435 individuals (or about 3.97% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There were 14 individuals (or about 0.13% of the population) who were Jewish, and 651 (or about 5.94% of the population) who were Islamic. There were 24 individuals who were Buddhist, 65 individuals who were Hindu and 17 individuals who belonged to another church. 1,168 (or about 10.66% of the population) belonged to no church, are agnostic or atheist, and 616 individuals (or about 5.62% of the population) did not answer the question. ==Transport==

The municipality has four railway stations on two different lines: , which is located on the main line between Geneva and Lausanne; and , , and on the suburban Lausanne–Bercher line. There is also service from the bus and trolleybus lines of Transports publics de la région lausannoise. ==Education==

In Prilly about 3,982 or (36.3%) of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education, and 1,185 or (10.8%) have completed additional higher education (either university or a Fachhochschule). Of the 1,185 who completed tertiary schooling, 49.5% were Swiss men, 27.3% were Swiss women, 14.5% were non-Swiss men and 8.7% were non-Swiss women. During the school year, the political district provided pre-school care for a total of 803 children of which 502 children (62.5%) received subsidized pre-school care. The canton's primary school program requires students to attend for four years. There were 654 students in the municipal primary school program. The obligatory lower secondary school program lasts for six years and there were 492 students in those schools. There were also 19 students who were home schooled or attended another non-traditional school. , there were 418 students in Prilly who came from another municipality, while 473 residents attended schools outside the municipality. == Notable people ==

• Charles Rist (1874 in Prilly – 1955) a French economist • Arthur Fonjallaz (1875 in Prilly – 1944) a Swiss military figure, publisher and fascist • Lauriane Gilliéron (born 1984) a Swiss actress, model and beauty queen, Miss Switzerland 2005 and 2nd runner up Miss Universe 2006; brought up in Prilly ==See also==