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Crans-près-Céligny
Summary
Crans (until 2021 Crans-près-Céligny French for Crans near Céligny) is a municipality in the district of Nyon in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.
Crans-près-Céligny is first mentioned in 1008 as Cranos.
Crans has an area, , of . Of this area, or 56.9% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 14.6% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 26.9% is settled (buildings or roads), or 0.5% is either rivers or lakes.
Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 19.0% and transportation infrastructure made up 6.0%. while parks, green belts and sports fields made up 1.4%. Out of the forested land, all of the forested land area is covered with heavy forests. Of the agricultural land, 48.4% is used for growing crops and 3.9% is pastures, while 4.6% is used for orchards or vine crops. Of the water in the municipality, 0.2% is in lakes and 0.2% is in rivers and streams.
The municipality was part of the Nyon District until it was dissolved on 31 August 2006, and Crans became part of the new district of Nyon.
The municipality is located west of Nyon across Lake Geneva. It is located near Céligny, a municipality in Geneva.
The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Gules, a Church Cross Argent.
Crans has a population () of . , 29.8% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1999–2009 ) the population has changed at a rate of 4.2%. It has changed at a rate of -1.4% due to migration and at a rate of 5.5% due to births and deaths.
Most of the population () speaks French (1,474 or 75.1%), with English being second most common (207 or 10.5%) and German being third (143 or 7.3%). There are 25 people who speak Italian and 2 people who speak Romansh.
The age distribution, , in Crans is; 248 children or 12.8% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 267 teenagers or 13.8% are between 10 and 19. Of the adult population, 131 people or 6.8% of the population are between 20 and 29 years old. 232 people or 12.0% are between 30 and 39, 372 people or 19.3% are between 40 and 49, and 235 people or 12.
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