Bursins is a

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in the district of

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in the canton of

Vaud Vaud ( ; , ), more formally Canton of Vaud, is one of the Cantons of Switzerland, 26 cantons forming the Switzerland, Swiss Confederation. It is composed of Subdivisions of the canton of Vaud, ten districts; its capital city is Lausanne. Its coat ...

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History

Bursins is first mentioned in 1011 as ''Bruzinges''. In a record that was written before 1031 it was mentioned as ''Brucins''.

Geography

Bursins has an area, , of . Of this area, or 55.2% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 32.3% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 13.6% is settled (buildings or roads).Swiss Federal Statistical Office-Land Use Statistics
2009 data accessed 25 March 2010 Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 6.2% and transportation infrastructure made up 4.5%. while parks, green belts and sports fields made up 1.8%. Out of the forested land, 30.9% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.5% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 39.8% is used for growing crops and 3.9% is pastures, while 11.6% is used for orchards or vine crops. The municipality was part of the

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until it was dissolved on 31 August 2006, and Bursins became part of the new district of Nyon.Nomenklaturen – Amtliches Gemeindeverzeichnis der Schweiz
accessed 4 April 2011 The municipality is located in the wine producing Côte region. It consists of the village of Bursins and the

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of Le Molard and portions of Le Vernay.

Coat of arms

The

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of the municipal

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is ''Argent, a chevron Gules, in chief two grape bunches and in base a purse all of the last.''

Demographics

Bursins has a population () of . , 23.0% of the population are resident foreign nationals.Swiss Federal Statistical Office - Superweb database - Gemeinde Statistics 1981-2008
accessed 19 June 2010 Over the last 10 years (1999–2009 ) the population has changed at a rate of 45.1%. It has changed at a rate of 35.9% due to migration and at a rate of 9.4% due to births and deaths.
accessed 10-August-2011 Most of the population () speaks French (437 or 83.7%), with

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being second most common (31 or 5.9%) and English being third (23 or 4.4%). There are 7 people who speak

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. The age distribution, , in Bursins is; 92 children or 12.8% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 90 teenagers or 12.5% are between 10 and 19. Of the adult population, 75 people or 10.4% of the population are between 20 and 29 years old. 94 people or 13.1% are between 30 and 39, 135 people or 18.8% are between 40 and 49, and 91 people or 12.6% are between 50 and 59. The senior population distribution is 82 people or 11.4% of the population are between 60 and 69 years old, 42 people or 5.8% are between 70 and 79, there are 15 people or 2.1% who are between 80 and 89, and there are 4 people or 0.6% who are 90 and older.Canton of Vaud Statistical Office
accessed 29 April 2011 , there were 209 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 275 married individuals, 13 widows or widowers and 25 individuals who are divorced.STAT-TAB Datenwürfel für Thema 40.3 - 2000
accessed 2 February 2011 , there were 210 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.4 persons per household. There were 54 households that consist of only one person and 15 households with five or more people. Out of a total of 218 households that answered this question, 24.8% were households made up of just one person and there was 1 adult who lived with their parents. Of the rest of the households, there are 68 married couples without children, 68 married couples with children There were 13 single parents with a child or children. There were 6 households that were made up of unrelated people and 8 households that were made up of some sort of institution or another collective housing. there were 80 single family homes (or 52.6% of the total) out of a total of 152 inhabited buildings. There were 39 multi-family buildings (25.7%), along with 26 multi-purpose buildings that were mostly used for housing (17.1%) and 7 other use buildings (commercial or industrial) that also had some housing (4.6%).Swiss Federal Statistical Office STAT-TAB - Datenwürfel für Thema 09.2 - Gebäude und Wohnungen
accessed 28 January 2011 , a total of 201 apartments (84.8% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 29 apartments (12.2%) were seasonally occupied and 7 apartments (3.0%) were empty. , the construction rate of new housing units was 0 new units per 1000 residents. The vacancy rate for the municipality, , was 0%. The historical population is given in the following chart: 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:530 TimeAxis = orientation:vertical AlignBars = justify ScaleMajor = gridcolor:darkgrey increment:100 start:0 ScaleMinor = gridcolor:lightgrey increment:20 start:0 PlotData= color:yellowgreen width:40 mark:(line,white) align:center bar:1764 from:start till:264 text:"264" bar:1850 from:start till:340 text:"340" bar:1860 from:start till:357 text:"357" bar:1870 from:start till:392 text:"392" bar:1880 from:start till:426 text:"426" bar:1888 from:start till:424 text:"424" bar:1900 from:start till:424 text:"424" bar:1910 from:start till:423 text:"423" bar:1920 from:start till:421 text:"421" bar:1930 from:start till:331 text:"331" bar:1941 from:start till:364 text:"364" bar:1950 from:start till:333 text:"333" bar:1960 from:start till:285 text:"285" bar:1970 from:start till:264 text:"264" bar:1980 from:start till:353 text:"353" bar:1990 from:start till:461 text:"461" bar:2000 from:start till:522 text:"522"

Famous residents

Famous residents have included the English-born actor

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, who died in 2004 and is buried in Bursins.

Heritage sites of national significance

The Swiss Reformed Church of Saint-Martin and the ''Tuilerie de Vinzel avec four Hoffmann'' are listed as Swiss heritage site of national significance. The entire village of Bursins is part of the

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Politics

In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SVP which received 34.1% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the FDP (15.57%), the SP (14.24%) and the

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(13.03%). In the federal election, a total of 216 votes were cast, and the

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was 50.7%.

Economy

, Bursins had an unemployment rate of 3.1%. , there were 37 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 10 businesses involved in this sector. 72 people were employed in the

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and there were 9 businesses in this sector. 296 people were employed in the

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, with 28 businesses in this sector. There were 293 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 40.6% of the workforce. the total number of

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jobs was 348. The number of jobs in the primary sector was 29, all of which were in agriculture. The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 68 of which 14 or (20.6%) were in manufacturing and 55 (80.9%) were in construction. The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 251. In the tertiary sector; 43 or 17.1% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 9 or 3.6% were in the movement and storage of goods, 41 or 16.3% were in a hotel or restaurant, 2 or 0.8% were in the information industry, 2 or 0.8% were technical professionals or scientists, 2 or 0.8% were in education. , there were 237 workers who commuted into the municipality and 207 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 6.3% of the workforce coming into Bursins are coming from outside Switzerland.Swiss Federal Statistical Office - Statweb
accessed 24 June 2010 Of the working population, 7.2% used public transportation to get to work, and 65.9% used a private car.

Religion

From the , 110 or 21.1% were

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, while 287 or 55.0% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church. Of the rest of the population, there were 3 members of an Orthodox church (or about 0.57% of the population), there were 5 individuals (or about 0.96% of the population) who belonged to the Christian Catholic Church, and there were 10 individuals (or about 1.92% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There was 1 individual who was

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, and there was 1 individual who was

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ic. 78 (or about 14.94% of the population) belonged to no church, are

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, and 31 individuals (or about 5.94% of the population) did not answer the question.

Education

In Bursins about 201 or (38.5%) of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education, and 106 or (20.3%) have completed additional higher education (either

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or a ''

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''). Of the 106 who completed tertiary schooling, 51.9% were Swiss men, 25.5% were Swiss women, 16.0% were non-Swiss men and 6.6% were non-Swiss women. In the 2009/2010 school year there were a total of 92 students in the Bursins school district. In the Vaud cantonal school system, two years of non-obligatory pre-school are provided by the political districts.Organigramme de l'école vaudoise, année scolaire 2009-2010
accessed 2 May 2011 During the school year, the political district provided pre-school care for a total of 1,249 children of which 563 children (45.1%) received subsidized pre-school care. The canton's

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program requires students to attend for four years. There were 50 students in the municipal primary school program. The obligatory lower secondary school program lasts for six years and there were 41 students in those schools. There was also 1 student who was home schooled or attended another non-traditional school.Canton of Vaud Statistical Office - Scol. obligatoire/filières de transition
accessed 2 May 2011 , there were 17 students in Bursins who came from another municipality, while 63 residents attended schools outside the municipality.

References

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