Attalens

Attalens (atalɑ̃s; Atalens, locally Atalin ataˈlɛ̃ or Talin) is a municipality in the district of Veveyse in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland. Attalens is first mentioned in 867 as Haltningum. Attalens has an area of . Of this area, or 59.8% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 27.0% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 13.3% is settled (buildings or roads), or 0.3% is either rivers or lakes. Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 8.5% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.4%. Power and water infrastructure as well as other special developed areas made up 1.3% of the area Out of the forested land, 23.8% of the total land area is heavily forested and 3.3% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 17.2% is used for growing crops and 40.9% is pastures, while 1.7% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is flowing water. The municipality is located in the Veveyse district, on the Vevey-Palézieux road. The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Argent a Lion rampant Gules and overall a Bendlet Vert. Attalens has a population () of . , 13.9% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (2000–2010) the population has changed at a rate of 28.4%. Migration accounted for 27.3%, while births and deaths accounted for 4.2%. Most of the population () speaks French (2,076 or 92.2%) as their first language, German is the second most common (78 or 3.5%) and Portuguese is the third (30 or 1.3%). There are 19 people who speak Italian and 2 people who speak Romansh. the population was 49.0% male and 51.0% female. The population was made up of 1,173 Swiss men (41.7% of the population) and 208 (7.4%) non-Swiss men. There were 1,231 Swiss women (43.7%) and 204 (7.2%) non-Swiss women. Of the population in the municipality, 715 or about 31.7% were born in Attalens and lived there in 2000. There were 400 or 17.8% who were born in the same canton, while 777 or 34.5% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 294 or 13.