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Vaux-sur-Morges
Summary
Vaux-sur-Morges is a municipality in the Swiss canton of Vaud, located in the district of Morges.
Vaux-sur-Morges has an area, , of . Of this area, or 74.8% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 13.3% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 10.5% is settled (buildings or roads).
Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 4.8% and transportation infrastructure made up 4.8%. Out of the forested land, 9.5% of the total land area is heavily forested and 3.8% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 61.4% is used for growing crops and 9.5% is pastures, while 3.8% is used for orchards or vine crops.
The municipality was part of the Morges District until it was dissolved on 31 August 2006, and Vaux-sur-Morges became part of the new district of Morges.
The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Gules, a Bar Argent between three Escallops Or, two and one.
Vaux-sur-Morges has a population () of . , 12.1% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1999–2009 ) the population has changed at a rate of 24.6%. It has changed at a rate of 13% due to migration and at a rate of 13.8% due to births and deaths.
Most of the population () speaks French (139 or 88.0%), with English being second most common (11 or 7.0%) and German being third (5 or 3.2%).
Of the population in the municipality 32 or about 20.3% were born in Vaux-sur-Morges and lived there in 2000. There were 77 or 48.7% who were born in the same canton, while 23 or 14.6% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 26 or 16.5% were born outside of Switzerland.
In there was 1 live birth to Swiss citizens. Ignoring immigration and emigration, the population of Swiss citizens increased by 1 while the foreign population remained the same. There was 1 Swiss man who emigrated from Switzerland. At the same time, there was 1 non-Swiss man and 1 non-Swiss woman who emigrated from Switzerland to another country. The total Swiss population change in 2008 (from all sources, including moves across municipal borders) was a decrease of 1 and the non-Swiss population decreased by 4 people.
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