Anières

Anières is a municipality in the canton of Geneva in Switzerland. The inhabitants are known as the "Aniérois". It is known for having some of the most expensive housing in the Geneva area. Anières is first mentioned in 1179 as [Guillelmus] dasneres. It became an independent municipality in 1858 when it separated from Corsier. Anières has an area, , of . Of this area, or 63.2% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 4.7% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 31.1% is settled (buildings or roads), or 0.3% is either rivers or lakes. Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 22.5% and transportation infrastructure made up 6.2%. Out of the forested land, all of the forested land area is covered with heavy forests. Of the agricultural land, 52.1% is used for growing crops and 2.1% is pastures, while 9.1% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is flowing water. The municipality is located on the left bank of Lake Geneva. Two rivers border the commune: the Hermance and the Nant-d'Aisy. It consists of the village of Anières and the hamlets of Bassy and Chevrens. The municipality of Anières consists of the sub-sections of Anières - lac, Anières - Hutins, Chevrens, Anières - douane and Anières - village. Anières has a population () of . , 25.9% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1999–2009 ) the population has changed at a rate of 15.5%. It has changed at a rate of 14.6% due to migration and at a rate of 1.7% due to births and deaths. Most of the population () speaks French (1,578 or 77.7%), with English being second most common (166 or 8.2%) and German being third (94 or 4.6%). There is 1 person who speaks Romansh. the gender distribution of the population was 49.6% male and 50.4% female. The population was made up of 761 Swiss men (30.2% of the population) and 488 (19.4%) non-Swiss men. There were 895 Swiss women (35.6%) and 372 (14.8%) non-Swiss women. Of the population in the municipality 310 or about 15.3% were born in Anières and lived there in 2000.