Duillier () is a

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in the district of

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in the canton of

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History

Duillier is first mentioned in 1145 as ''Duelliei''.

Geography

Duillier has an area, , of . Of this area, or 75.2% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 7.8% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 16.1% 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 8.8% and transportation infrastructure made up 6.1%. Out of the forested land, 6.3% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.5% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 56.4% is used for growing crops and 5.1% is pastures, while 13.6% 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 Duillier became part of the new district of Nyon.Nomenklaturen – Amtliches Gemeindeverzeichnis der Schweiz
accessed 4 April 2011 The municipality is located along the

- Arzier road.

Coat of arms

The

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of the municipal

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is ''Per pale Gules and Argent, a Bend Sable overall between two Roundels counterchanged.''

Demographics

Duillier has a population () of . , 22.8% 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 19.1%. It has changed at a rate of 8.8% due to migration and at a rate of 10.1% due to births and deaths.
accessed 21-July-2011 Most of the population () speaks French (709 or 78.7%), with German being second most common (87 or 9.7%) and English being third (63 or 7.0%). There are 16 people who speak

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. The age distribution, , in Duillier is; 136 children or 13.0% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 145 teenagers or 13.9% are between 10 and 19. Of the adult population, 98 people or 9.4% of the population are between 20 and 29 years old. 170 people or 16.3% are between 30 and 39, 198 people or 19.0% are between 40 and 49, and 120 people or 11.5% are between 50 and 59. The senior population distribution is 97 people or 9.3% of the population are between 60 and 69 years old, 57 people or 5.5% are between 70 and 79, there are 21 people or 2.0% who are between 80 and 89, and there are 2 people or 0.2% who are 90 and older.Canton of Vaud Statistical Office
accessed 29 April 2011 , there were 362 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 456 married individuals, 33 widows or widowers and 50 individuals who are divorced.STAT-TAB Datenwürfel für Thema 40.3 - 2000
accessed 2 February 2011 , there were 371 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.4 persons per household. There were 111 households that consist of only one person and 15 households with five or more people. Out of a total of 380 households that answered this question, 29.2% were households made up of just one person. Of the rest of the households, there are 102 married couples without children, 122 married couples with children There were 33 single parents with a child or children. There were 3 households that were made up of unrelated people and 9 households that were made up of some sort of institution or another collective housing. there were 136 single family homes (or 66.7% of the total) out of a total of 204 inhabited buildings. There were 44 multi-family buildings (21.6%), along with 13 multi-purpose buildings that were mostly used for housing (6.4%) and 11 other use buildings (commercial or industrial) that also had some housing (5.4%).Swiss Federal Statistical Office STAT-TAB - Datenwürfel für Thema 09.2 - Gebäude und Wohnungen
accessed 28 January 2011 , a total of 347 apartments (90.8% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 31 apartments (8.1%) were seasonally occupied and 4 apartments (1.0%) were empty. , the construction rate of new housing units was 2.8 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:910 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:1764 from:start till:204 text:"204" bar:1850 from:start till:281 text:"281" bar:1860 from:start till:273 text:"273" bar:1870 from:start till:288 text:"288" bar:1880 from:start till:315 text:"315" bar:1888 from:start till:287 text:"287" bar:1900 from:start till:271 text:"271" bar:1910 from:start till:271 text:"271" bar:1920 from:start till:253 text:"253" bar:1930 from:start till:228 text:"228" bar:1941 from:start till:232 text:"232" bar:1950 from:start till:230 text:"230" bar:1960 from:start till:281 text:"281" bar:1970 from:start till:320 text:"320" bar:1980 from:start till:440 text:"440" bar:1990 from:start till:642 text:"642" bar:2000 from:start till:901 text:"901"

Heritage sites of national significance

Duillier Castle and the

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are listed as Swiss heritage site of national significance.

Politics

In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the FDP which received 21.4% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SVP (18.28%), the SP (15.7%) and the

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(14.53%). In the federal election, a total of 267 votes were cast, and the

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was 43.8%.

Economy

, Duillier had an unemployment rate of 4.2%. , there were 29 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 8 businesses involved in this sector. 58 people were employed in the secondary sector and there were 12 businesses in this sector. 253 people were employed in the

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, with 32 businesses in this sector. There were 458 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 40.2% of the workforce. the total number of

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jobs was 314. The number of jobs in the primary sector was 24, all of which were in agriculture. The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 54 of which 15 or (27.8%) were in manufacturing and 40 (74.1%) were in construction. The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 236. In the tertiary sector; 32 or 13.6% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 8 or 3.4% were in the movement and storage of goods, 12 or 5.1% were in a hotel or restaurant, 6 or 2.5% were in the information industry, 163 or 69.1% were technical professionals or scientists, 4 or 1.7% were in education. , there were 140 workers who commuted into the municipality and 377 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 2.7 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering. About 16.4% of the workforce coming into Duillier are coming from outside Switzerland.Swiss Federal Statistical Office - Statweb
accessed 24 June 2010 Of the working population, 14.2% used public transportation to get to work, and 71% used a private car.

Religion

From the , 284 or 31.5% were

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, while 362 or 40.2% belonged to the

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. Of the rest of the population, there were 7 members of an Orthodox church (or about 0.78% of the population), there were 5 individuals (or about 0.55% of the population) who belonged to the Christian Catholic Church, and there were 26 individuals (or about 2.89% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There were 8 individuals (or about 0.89% of the population) who were

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, and 7 (or about 0.78% of the population) who were

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ic. There were 4 individuals who were

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. 187 (or about 20.75% of the population) belonged to no church, are agnostic or

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, and 22 individuals (or about 2.44% of the population) did not answer the question.

Education

In Duillier about 348 or (38.6%) of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education, and 215 or (23.9%) have completed additional higher education (either

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or a ''

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''). Of the 215 who completed tertiary schooling, 43.7% were Swiss men, 26.5% were Swiss women, 16.7% were non-Swiss men and 13.0% were non-Swiss women. In the 2009/2010 school year there were a total of 152 students in the Duillier 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 75 students in the municipal primary school program. The obligatory lower secondary school program lasts for six years and there were 77 students in those schools.Canton of Vaud Statistical Office - Scol. obligatoire/filières de transition
accessed 2 May 2011 , there was one student in Duillier who came from another municipality, while 115 residents attended schools outside the municipality.

References

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