Romanel-sur-Morges

Romanel-sur-Morges is first mentioned in 967 as villa Romanella. ==Geography==

Romanel-sur-Morges has an area, , of . Of this area, or 64.6% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 16.0% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 16.0% is settled (buildings or roads). Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 4.0% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 7.4% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.9%. while parks, green belts and sports fields made up 1.1%. Out of the forested land, 14.3% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.7% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 55.4% is used for growing crops and 3.4% is pastures, while 5.7% is used for orchards or vine crops. The municipality is located between Morges and Cossonay on the right bank of the Venoge river. ==Coat of arms==

The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Argent, a Chief Gules, overall on a Bend Sable in chief a Corn-ear bendwise Or. ==Demographics==

Romanel-sur-Morges has a population () of . , 9.0% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1999–2009 ) the population has changed at a rate of 13.5%. It has changed at a rate of 6% due to migration and at a rate of 7.5% due to births and deaths. Most of the population () speaks French (412 or 93.4%), with German being second most common (13 or 2.9%) and Italian being third (5 or 1.1%). , there were 189 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 215 married individuals, 19 widows or widowers and 18 individuals who are divorced. , there were 170 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.6 persons per household. there were 173 apartments in the municipality. The most common apartment size was 5 rooms of which there were 43. There were 2 single-room apartments and 78 apartments with five or more rooms. Of these apartments, a total of 162 apartments (93.6% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 10 apartments (5.8%) were seasonally occupied and one apartment was empty. Colors= id:lightgrey value:gray(0.9) id:darkgrey value:gray(0.8) ImageSize = width:1020 height:210 PlotArea = height:150 left:100 bottom:50 right:100 AlignBars = justify DateFormat = x.y Period = from:0 till:450 TimeAxis = orientation:vertical AlignBars = justify ScaleMajor = gridcolor:darkgrey increment:90 start:0 ScaleMinor = gridcolor:lightgrey increment:18 start:0 PlotData= color:yellowgreen width:40 mark:(line,white) align:center bar:1764 from:start till:108 text:"108" bar:1850 from:start till:148 text:"148" bar:1860 from:start till:203 text:"203" bar:1870 from:start till:199 text:"199" bar:1880 from:start till:168 text:"168" bar:1888 from:start till:182 text:"182" bar:1900 from:start till:166 text:"166" bar:1910 from:start till:147 text:"147" bar:1920 from:start till:152 text:"152" bar:1930 from:start till:138 text:"138" bar:1941 from:start till:146 text:"146" bar:1950 from:start till:138 text:"138" bar:1960 from:start till:128 text:"128" bar:1970 from:start till:212 text:"212" bar:1980 from:start till:254 text:"254" bar:1990 from:start till:422 text:"422" bar:2000 from:start till:441 text:"441" ==Politics==

In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the FDP which received 25% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SVP (17.28%), the SP (13.95%) and the CVP (12.43%). In the federal election, a total of 174 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 52.4%. ==Economy==

It is the seat of the European headquarters of Logitech, , there were 378 workers who commuted into the municipality and 188 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net importer of workers, with about 2.0 workers entering the municipality for every one leaving. About 3.4% of the workforce coming into Romanel-sur-Morges are coming from outside Switzerland. Of the working population, 8.4% used public transportation to get to work, and 72.3% used a private car. ==Religion==

From the , 93 or 21.1% were Roman Catholic, while 264 or 59.9% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church. Of the rest of the population, there were 4 members of an Orthodox church (or about 0.91% of the population), there was 1 individual who belongs to the Christian Catholic Church, and there were 9 individuals (or about 2.04% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There were 2 individuals (or about 0.45% of the population) who were Jewish, and 4 (or about 0.91% of the population) who were Islamic. There was 1 individual who belonged to another church. 53 (or about 12.02% of the population) belonged to no church, are agnostic or atheist, and 14 individuals (or about 3.17% of the population) did not answer the question. ==Education==

In Romanel-sur-Morges about 180 or (40.8%) of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education, and 82 or (18.6%) have completed additional higher education (either university or a Fachhochschule). Of the 82 who completed tertiary schooling, 64.6% were Swiss men, 23.2% were Swiss women, 9.8% were non-Swiss men. 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 33 students in the municipal primary school program. The obligatory lower secondary school program lasts for six years and there were 37 students in those schools. , there were 24 students in Romanel-sur-Morges who came from another municipality, while 62 residents attended schools outside the municipality. ==References==