Cugy, Vaud

Cugy is a municipality in the district of Gros-de-Vaud in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. Cugy is first mentioned around 968-85 as in villa Cuzziaco. In 1147 it was mentioned as Cusi. Cugy has an area, , of . Of this area, or 36.6% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 36.9% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 26.6% is settled (buildings or roads). Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 1.7% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 20.3% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.8%. Out of the forested land, all of the forested land area is covered with heavy forests. Of the agricultural land, 25.5% is used for growing crops and 10.7% is pastures. The municipality was part of the Echallens District until it was dissolved on 31 August 2006, and Cugy became part of the new district of Gros-de-Vaud. The municipality is located on the edge of the woods that cover the Jorat mountain range. The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Gules, two Bars wavy Argent, in chief Argent an Eagle displayed Gules. Cugy has a population () of . , 18.2% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1999–2009 ) the population has changed at a rate of 17%. It has changed at a rate of 10.1% due to migration and at a rate of 7% due to births and deaths. Most of the population () speaks French (1,768 or 88.8%), with German being second most common (101 or 5.1%) and Portuguese being third (28 or 1.4%). There are 27 people who speak Italian and 1 person who speaks Romansh. Of the population in the municipality 286 or about 14.4% were born in Cugy and lived there in 2000. There were 903 or 45.3% who were born in the same canton, while 379 or 19.0% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 382 or 19.2% were born outside of Switzerland. In there were 17 live births to Swiss citizens and 10 births to non-Swiss citizens, and in same time span there were 15 deaths of Swiss citizens and 1 non-Swiss citizen death.