Troinex

Troinex has an area, , of . Of this area, or 67.0% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 7.3% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 26.3% is settled (buildings or roads). Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 19.0% and transportation infrastructure made up 5.8%. Out of the forested land, 1.8% of the total land area is heavily forested and 5.6% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 48.8% is used for growing crops and 2.0% is pastures, while 16.1% is used for orchards or vine crops. ==Demographics==

Troinex has a population () of . , 20.5% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1999–2009 ) the population has changed at a rate of 13.8%. It has changed at a rate of 8% due to migration and at a rate of 7.7% due to births and deaths. Most of the population () speaks French (1,747 or 86.1%), with German being second most common (80 or 3.9%) and English being third (75 or 3.7%). There are 24 people who speak Italian and 2 people who speak Romansh. Of the population in the municipality 309 or about 15.2% were born in Troinex and lived there in 2000. There were 829 or 40.8% who were born in the same canton, while 319 or 15.7% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 491 or 24.2% were born outside of Switzerland. , there were 771 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.5 persons per household. there were 820 apartments in the municipality. The most common apartment size was 3 rooms of which there were 181. There were 46 single-room apartments and 317 apartments with five or more rooms. Of these apartments, a total of 731 apartments (89.1% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 78 apartments (9.5%) were seasonally occupied and 11 apartments (1.3%) were empty. Colors= id:lightgrey value:gray(0.9) id:darkgrey value:gray(0.8) ImageSize = width:960 height:210 PlotArea = height:150 left:100 bottom:50 right:100 AlignBars = justify DateFormat = x.y Period = from:0 till:2100 TimeAxis = orientation:vertical AlignBars = justify ScaleMajor = gridcolor:darkgrey increment:400 start:0 ScaleMinor = gridcolor:lightgrey increment:80 start:0 PlotData= color:yellowgreen width:40 mark:(line,white) align:center bar:1850 from:start till:247 text:"247" bar:1860 from:start till:280 text:"280" bar:1870 from:start till:303 text:"303" bar:1880 from:start till:343 text:"343" bar:1888 from:start till:334 text:"334" bar:1900 from:start till:329 text:"329" bar:1910 from:start till:386 text:"386" bar:1920 from:start till:441 text:"441" bar:1930 from:start till:601 text:"601" bar:1941 from:start till:606 text:"606" bar:1950 from:start till:706 text:"706" bar:1960 from:start till:947 text:"947" bar:1970 from:start till:1042 text:"1,042" bar:1980 from:start till:1161 text:"1,161" bar:1990 from:start till:1383 text:"1,383" bar:2000 from:start till:2030 text:"2,030" ==Politics==

In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the LPS Party which received 27.32% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the Green Party (17.76%), the SP (13.84%) and the CVP (13.61%). In the federal election, a total of 719 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 55.9%. In the 2009 Grand Conseil election, there were a total of 1,316 registered voters of which 681 (51.7%) voted. The most popular party in the municipality for this election was the Libéral with 27.2% of the ballots. In the canton-wide election they received the highest proportion of votes. The second most popular party was the Les Verts (with 13.6%), they were also second in the canton-wide election, while the third most popular party was the PDC (with 12.7%), they were fifth in the canton-wide election. For the 2009 Conseil d'État election, there were a total of 1,316 registered voters of which 758 (57.6%) voted. In 2011, all the municipalities held local elections, and in Troinex there were 17 spots open on the municipal council. There were a total of 1,533 registered voters of which 871 (56.8%) voted. Out of the 871 votes, there were 6 blank votes, 5 null or unreadable votes and 116 votes with a name that was not on the list. ==Economy==

, Troinex had an unemployment rate of 4.7%. , there were 117 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 15 businesses involved in this sector. 38 people were employed in the secondary sector and there were 10 businesses in this sector. 219 people were employed in the tertiary sector, with 53 businesses in this sector. , there were 164 workers who commuted into the municipality and 833 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 5.1 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering. About 10.4% of the workforce coming into Troinex are coming from outside Switzerland, while 0.0% of the locals commute out of Switzerland for work. Of the working population, 12.7% used public transportation to get to work, and 66.7% used a private car. ==Religion==

From the , 820 or 40.4% were Roman Catholic, while 443 or 21.8% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church. Of the rest of the population, there were 13 members of an Orthodox church (or about 0.64% of the population), there were 9 individuals (or about 0.44% of the population) who belonged to the Christian Catholic Church, and there were 21 individuals (or about 1.03% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There were 32 individuals (or about 1.58% of the population) who were Jewish, and 36 (or about 1.77% of the population) who were Islamic. There were 4 individuals who were Buddhist, 3 individuals who were Hindu and 5 individuals who belonged to another church. 504 (or about 24.83% of the population) belonged to no church, are agnostic or atheist, and 140 individuals (or about 6.90% of the population) did not answer the question. ==Education==

In Troinex about 633 or (31.2%) of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education, and 507 or (25.0%) have completed additional higher education (either university or a Fachhochschule). Of the 507 who completed tertiary schooling, 41.8% were Swiss men, 35.9% were Swiss women, 14.2% were non-Swiss men and 8.1% were non-Swiss women. During that school year, there were 38 children who were in a pre-kindergarten class. The canton's school system provides two years of non-mandatory kindergarten and requires students to attend six years of primary school, with some of the children attending smaller, specialized classes. In Troinex there were 90 students in kindergarten or primary school and 6 students were in the special, smaller classes. The secondary school program consists of three lower, obligatory years of schooling, followed by three to five years of optional, advanced schools. There were 90 lower secondary students who attended school in Troinex. There were 113 upper secondary students from the municipality along with 14 students who were in a professional, non-university track program. An additional 69 students attended a private school. , there were 59 students in Troinex who came from another municipality, while 238 residents attended schools outside the municipality. ==References==