Lully, Vaud

Lully is a municipality in the Swiss canton of Vaud, located in the district of Morges. Lully is first mentioned in 1018 as Lulliacum. Lully has an area, , of . Of this area, or 64.9% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 12.7% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 20.5% is settled (buildings or roads) and or 0.5% is unproductive land. Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 13.7% and transportation infrastructure made up 6.3%. Out of the forested land, all of the forested land area is covered with heavy forests. Of the agricultural land, 42.4% is used for growing crops and 4.4% is pastures, while 18.0% is used for orchards or vine crops. The municipality was part of the Morges District until it was dissolved on 31 August 2006, and Lully became part of the new district of Morges. The municipality is located westward of the Morges river. It consists of the village of Lully and the hamlet of Sécheron. The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Azure, a Bend Or and a Cross bottony Argent. Lully has a population () of . , 16.4% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1999–2009 ) the population has changed at a rate of 16%. It has changed at a rate of 10.4% due to migration and at a rate of 6.1% due to births and deaths. Most of the population () speaks French (566 or 85.4%), with German being second most common (46 or 6.9%) and English being third (19 or 2.9%). There are 6 people who speak Italian. Of the population in the municipality 114 or about 17.2% were born in Lully and lived there in 2000. There were 286 or 43.1% who were born in the same canton, while 121 or 18.3% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 118 or 17.8% were born outside of Switzerland. In there were 8 live births to Swiss citizens and 2 births to non-Swiss citizens, and in same time span there was 1 death of a Swiss citizen. Ignoring immigration and emigration, the population of Swiss citizens increased by 7 while the foreign population increased by 2. There were 2 Swiss women who immigrated back to Switzerland.