Boulens

Boulens is a municipality in the district Gros-de-Vaud in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. Boulens is first mentioned in 1142 as Bollens. In 1177 it was mentioned as Boslens. Boulens has an area, , of . Of this area, or 61.3% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 32.6% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 4.9% is settled (buildings or roads), or 0.3% is either rivers or lakes and or 0.3% is unproductive land. Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 2.6% and transportation infrastructure made up 1.7%. Out of the forested land, all of the forested land area is covered with heavy forests. Of the agricultural land, 47.1% is used for growing crops and 14.2% is pastures. All the water in the municipality is flowing water. The municipality was part of the Moudon District until it was dissolved on 31 August 2006, and Boulens became part of the new district of Gros-de-Vaud. The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Azure, two crossed scythes Or, in chief of the second a bar and a pale of the first counterchanged. Boulens has a population () of . , 6.3% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1999-2009 ) the population has changed at a rate of 27.7%. It has changed at a rate of 29.5% due to migration and at a rate of -1.8% due to births and deaths. Most of the population () speaks French (190 or 90.0%), with German being second most common (13 or 6.2%) and Portuguese being third (4 or 1.9%). There is 1 person who speaks Italian. Of the population in the municipality 79 or about 37.4% were born in Boulens and lived there in 2000. There were 82 or 38.9% who were born in the same canton, while 29 or 13.7% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 21 or 10.0% were born outside of Switzerland. In there were 4 live births to Swiss citizens and were 3 deaths of Swiss citizens. Ignoring immigration and emigration, the population of Swiss citizens increased by 1 while the foreign population remained the same. At the same time, there was 1 non-Swiss man who immigrated from another country to Switzerland.