Vissoie

Vissoie is a village in the district of Sierre in the Swiss canton of Valais. The village became an independent municipality in 1905 when it split from the municipalities of Ayer and Grimentz. However, on 1 January 2009 it merged with neighboring Ayer, Chandolin, Grimentz, Saint Jean and Saint-Luc to form the municipality of Anniviers. Vissoie has an area, , of . In 1905 the village expanded with the détachée des communes d'Ayer and de Grimentz. In 2009 Vissoie merged with Ayer, Chandolin, Grimentz, Saint-Jean and Saint-Luc into the municipality of Anniviers. The blazon of the village coat of arms is Gules, an Ibex rampant Argent. Vissoie has a population () of 375. Most of the population () speaks French (399 or 88.5%) as their first language, Portuguese is the second most common (30 or 6.7%) and German is the third (12 or 2.7%). There are 6 people who speak Italian. Of the population in the village, 219 or about 48.6% were born in Vissoie and lived there in 2000. There were 103 or 22.8% who were born in the same canton, while 35 or 7.8% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 88 or 19.5% were born outside of Switzerland. there were 181 people who were single and never married in the village. There were 241 married individuals, 21 widows or widowers and 8 individuals who are divorced. There were 41 households that consist of only one person and 11 households with five or more people. , a total of 161 apartments (66.8% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 62 apartments (25.7%) were seasonally occupied and 18 apartments (7.5%) were empty. The historical population is given in the following chart: Colors= id:lightgrey value:gray(0.9) id:darkgrey value:gray(0.8) ImageSize = width:900 height:210 PlotArea = height:150 left:100 bottom:50 right:100 AlignBars = justify DateFormat = x.