Dardagny

Dardagny (daʁdaɲi) is a municipality of the Canton of Geneva, Switzerland. In 1978, Dardagny received the Wakker Prize for the development and preservation of its architectural heritage. Dardagny was first mentioned in 1309 as Dardaniacum. The village of La Plaine was first mentioned in 1321 as Planum. Dardagny has an area, , of . Of this area, or 61.3% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 25.9% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 9.4% is settled (buildings or roads), or 2.3% is either rivers or lakes and or 0.9% is unproductive land. Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 1.2% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 3.7% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.8%. Out of the forested land, 24.5% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.4% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 32.7% is used for growing crops and 4.7% is pastures, while 24.0% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is flowing water. It consists of the villages of Dardagny and La Plaine as well as numerous hamlets including Essertines and Malval. The municipality of Dardagny consists of the sub-sections or villages of La Tuilière, Roulave, Malval, Essertines, Vallon de l'Allondon, Dardagny and La Plaine. Dardagny has a population () of . , 26.0% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1999–2009 ) the population has changed at a rate of 5.4%. It has changed at a rate of -3.9% due to migration and at a rate of 8.6% due to births and deaths. Most of the population () speaks French (1,088 or 84.7%), with German being second most common (52 or 4.0%) and English being third (44 or 3.4%). the gender distribution of the population was 49.2% male and 50.8% female. The population was made up of 522 Swiss men (34.3% of the population) and 226 (14.9%) non-Swiss men. There were 575 Swiss women (37.8%) and 197 (13.0%) non-Swiss women. Of the population in the municipality 331 or about 25.