Troinex

Troinex is a municipality of the Canton of Geneva, Switzerland. Troinex has an area, , of . Of this area, or 67.0% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 7.3% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 26.3% is settled (buildings or roads). Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 19.0% and transportation infrastructure made up 5.8%. Out of the forested land, 1.8% of the total land area is heavily forested and 5.6% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 48.8% is used for growing crops and 2.0% is pastures, while 16.1% is used for orchards or vine crops. The municipality of Troinex consists of the sub-sections or villages of Troinex - village, Troinex - Dessous, Troinex - Dessus, Troinex - Marais and Les Dolens. Troinex has a population () of . , 20.5% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1999–2009 ) the population has changed at a rate of 13.8%. It has changed at a rate of 8% due to migration and at a rate of 7.7% due to births and deaths. Most of the population () speaks French (1,747 or 86.1%), with German being second most common (80 or 3.9%) and English being third (75 or 3.7%). There are 24 people who speak Italian and 2 people who speak Romansh. the gender distribution of the population was 49.2% male and 50.8% female. The population was made up of 858 Swiss men (39.4% of the population) and 213 (9.8%) non-Swiss men. There were 918 Swiss women (42.2%) and 188 (8.6%) non-Swiss women. Of the population in the municipality 309 or about 15.2% were born in Troinex and lived there in 2000. There were 829 or 40.8% who were born in the same canton, while 319 or 15.7% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 491 or 24.2% were born outside of Switzerland. In there were 15 live births to Swiss citizens and 5 births to non-Swiss citizens, and in same time span there were 10 deaths of Swiss citizens and 1 non-Swiss citizen death. Ignoring immigration and emigration, the population of Swiss citizens increased by 5 while the foreign population increased by 4.