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Clarmont
Summary
Clarmont is a municipality in the Swiss canton of Vaud, located in the district of Morges.
Clarmont has an area, , of . Of this area, or 82.0% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 11.0% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 8.0% is settled (buildings or roads).
Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 5.0% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.0%. Out of the forested land, 6.0% of the total land area is heavily forested and 5.0% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 67.0% is used for growing crops and 9.0% is pastures, while 6.0% is used for orchards or vine crops.
The municipality was part of the old Morges District until it was dissolved on 31 August 2006, and Clarmont became part of the new district of Morges.
The municipality is located on a high plateau above the Morges river.
The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Azure, a Bar wavy Argent, in chief a Sun in his splendour Or, in base a Coupeaux of the last.
Clarmont has a population () of . , 10.1% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1999–2009 ) the population has changed at a rate of 5.3%. It has changed at a rate of -3.8% due to migration and at a rate of 9.9% due to births and deaths.
Most of the population () speaks French (124 or 87.3%), with German being second most common (7 or 4.9%) and Italian being third (3 or 2.1%).
Of the population in the municipality 40 or about 28.2% were born in Clarmont and lived there in 2000. There were 62 or 43.7% who were born in the same canton, while 18 or 12.7% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 21 or 14.8% were born outside of Switzerland.
In there were 4 live births to Swiss citizens and there were 2 deaths of Swiss citizens. Ignoring immigration and emigration, the population of Swiss citizens increased by 2 while the foreign population remained the same. At the same time, there were 2 non-Swiss men who immigrated from another country to Switzerland.
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