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Montalchez
Summary
Montalchez is a former municipality in the district of Boudry in the canton of Neuchâtel in Switzerland. On 1 January 2018 the former municipalities of Bevaix, Saint-Aubin-Sauges, Gorgier, Vaumarcus, Montalchez and Fresens merged into the new municipality of La Grande-Béroche.
Montalchez is first mentioned in 1340 as villa de Montallichie.
Montalchez has an area, , of . Of this area, or 57.9% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 37.5% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 4.2% is settled (buildings or roads) and or 0.2% is unproductive land.
Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 2.3% and transportation infrastructure made up 1.6%. Out of the forested land, 33.8% of the total land area is heavily forested and 3.7% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 17.9% is used for growing crops and 22.1% is pastures, while 1.2% is used for orchards or vine crops and 16.7% is used for alpine pastures.
The municipality is located in the Boudry district. It consists of the village of Montalchez and the hamlet of Erperens.
The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Per fess Argent and Gules, a Rose counterchanged.
Montalchez has a population () of . , 4.4% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (2000–2010 ) the population has changed at a rate of 37.6%. It has changed at a rate of 27.1% due to migration and at a rate of 10% due to births and deaths.
Most of the population () speaks French (179 or 97.3%) as their first language, German is the second most common (3 or 1.6%) and English is the third (1 or 0.5%).
the population was 52.5% male and 47.5% female. The population was made up of 122 Swiss men (51.7% of the population) and 2 (0.8%) non-Swiss men. There were 105 Swiss women (44.5%) and 7 (3.0%) non-Swiss women. Of the population in the municipality, 75 or about 40.8% were born in Montalchez and lived there in 2000. There were 43 or 23.4% who were born in the same canton, while 43 or 23.4% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 15 or 8.
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