Combremont-le-Petit

Combremont-le-Petit is a former municipality in the district of Broye-Vully in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. The municipalities of Cerniaz, Combremont-le-Grand, Combremont-le-Petit, Granges-près-Marnand, Marnand, Sassel, Seigneux and Villars-Bramard merged on 1 July 2011 into the new municipality of Valbroye. Combremont-le-Petit is first mentioned in 911 as Cumbromo. In 1142 it was mentioned as Combremont. Combremont-le-Petit has an area, , of . Of this area, or 72.4% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 22.9% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 4.9% is settled (buildings or roads). Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 2.1% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.4%. Out of the forested land, 20.9% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.9% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 60.0% is used for growing crops and 11.2% is pastures, while 1.2% is used for orchards or vine crops. The municipality was part of the Payerne District until it was dissolved on 31 August 2006, and Combremont-le-Petit became part of the new district of Broye-Vully. The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Azure, a Deer's Head gardant Or, between the antlers a Mullet (of six) Argent. Combremont-le-Petit has a population () of 378. , 6.9% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1999–2009 ) the population has changed at a rate of 3%. It has changed at a rate of 2.7% due to migration and at a rate of 0.3% due to births and deaths. Most of the population () speaks French (343 or 93.2%), with German being second most common (12 or 3.3%) and English being third (5 or 1.4%). There are 2 people who speak Italian. Of the population in the municipality 137 or about 37.2% were born in Combremont-le-Petit and lived there in 2000. There were 125 or 34.0% who were born in the same canton, while 76 or 20.7% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 25 or 6.8% were born outside of Switzerland. In there was 1 live birth to Swiss citizens and were 3 deaths of Swiss citizens.