Laconnex

Laconnex (lakɔnɛ) is a municipality of the Canton of Geneva, Switzerland. Laconnex is first mentioned in 1225 as Laconay. In 1231 it was mentioned as Lacunay. Laconnex has an area, , of . Of this area, or 79.9% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 8.9% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 10.4% is settled (buildings or roads) and or 0.8% is unproductive land. Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 3.7% and transportation infrastructure made up 4.2%. Power and water infrastructure as well as other special developed areas made up 1.3% of the area while parks, green belts and sports fields made up 1.3%. Out of the forested land, 6.5% of the total land area is heavily forested and 2.3% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 67.1% is used for growing crops and 5.2% is pastures, while 7.6% is used for orchards or vine crops. The municipality is located in the Swiss Champagne valley. The municipality of Laconnex consists of the sub-sections or villages of Les Allues, La Grenouillère and Laconnex - village. Laconnex has a population () of . , 17.2% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1999–2009 ) the population has changed at a rate of 15.5%. It has changed at a rate of 10% due to migration and at a rate of 5.5% due to births and deaths. Most of the population () speaks French (465 or 86.1%), with German being second most common (26 or 4.8%) and English being third (16 or 3.0%). There are 6 people who speak Italian. the gender distribution of the population was 49.1% male and 50.9% female. The population was made up of 249 Swiss men (40.2% of the population) and 55 (8.9%) non-Swiss men. There were 270 Swiss women (43.6%) and 45 (7.3%) non-Swiss women. Of the population in the municipality 134 or about 24.8% were born in Laconnex and lived there in 2000. There were 178 or 33.0% who were born in the same canton, while 75 or 13.9% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 139 or 25.7% were born outside of Switzerland.