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Mex, Vaud
Summary
Mex is a municipality of the canton of Vaud in Switzerland, located in the district of Gros-de-Vaud.
Mex is first mentioned in 1154 as Mais.
Mex has an area, , of . Of this area, or 55.5% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 29.3% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 17.0% is settled (buildings or roads).
Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 2.1% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 9.2% and transportation infrastructure made up 4.9%. Out of the forested land, 27.9% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.4% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 44.9% is used for growing crops and 7.4% is pastures, while 3.2% is used for orchards or vine crops.
The municipality was part of the Cossonay District until it was dissolved on 31 August 2006, and Mex became part of the new district of Gros-de-Vaud.
It consists of the village of Mex as well as the Les Esserts housing development (which is separated from the village by the A1 motorway).
The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Or, a Chevron Gules.
Mex has a population () of . , 21.2% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1999–2009 ) the population has changed at a rate of 29.2%. It has changed at a rate of 20.2% due to migration and at a rate of 9.1% due to births and deaths.
Most of the population () speaks French (481 or 87.9%), with German being second most common (30 or 5.5%) and Italian being third (11 or 2.0%).
Of the population in the municipality 73 or about 13.3% were born in Mex and lived there in 2000. There were 266 or 48.6% who were born in the same canton, while 89 or 16.3% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 102 or 18.6% were born outside of Switzerland.
In there were 7 live births to Swiss citizens and 1 birth to non-Swiss citizens, and in same time span there were 2 deaths of Swiss citizens. Ignoring immigration and emigration, the population of Swiss citizens increased by 5 while the foreign population increased by 1.
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