Curtilles

Curtilles (kyʁtij) is a municipality in the district Broye-Vully in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. Curtilles is first mentioned around 852-875 as Curtilia. Curtilles has an area, , of . Of this area, or 78.0% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 15.6% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 6.3% is settled (buildings or roads), or 0.6% is either rivers or lakes and or 0.2% is unproductive land. Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 2.4% and transportation infrastructure made up 3.8%. Out of the forested land, 13.7% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.8% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 57.8% is used for growing crops and 18.0% is pastures, while 2.2% is used for orchards or vine crops. 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 Curtilles became part of the new district of Broye-Vully. The municipality is located in the Moudon, am rechten Ufer der Broye district, Die Gem. umfasst das Dorf und vier Weiler.. It consists of the village of Curtilles and the hamlets of Bez. Moudon, am rechten Ufer der Broye. Die Gem. umfasst das Dorf und vier Weiler.. The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Azure, three Rakes two and one Argent handled Or. Curtilles has a population () of . , 8.1% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1999–2009 ) the population has changed at a rate of 1.7%. It has changed at a rate of 2.7% due to migration and at a rate of 0% due to births and deaths. Most of the population () speaks French (261 or 94.2%), with German being second most common (12 or 4.3%) and Portuguese being third (2 or 0.7%). There is 1 person who speaks Italian. Of the population in the municipality 97 or about 35.0% were born in Curtilles and lived there in 2000. There were 108 or 39.0% who were born in the same canton, while 36 or 13.0% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 29 or 10.