Choulex

Choulex is a municipality of the Canton of Geneva, Switzerland. Choulex is first mentioned in 1153 as Cholay. Choulex has an area, , of . Of this area, or 73.7% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 9.5% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 15.1% is settled (buildings or roads), or 0.5% is either rivers or lakes and or 1.0% is unproductive land. Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 11.8% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.3%. Out of the forested land, 5.4% of the total land area is heavily forested and 4.1% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 52.4% is used for growing crops and 12.5% is pastures, while 8.7% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is flowing water. The municipality is located south of Lake Geneva. It consists of the linear village of Choulex and the hamlets of Bonvard, Briffod, Chevrier, La Capite and Miolan. The municipality of Choulex consists of the sub-sections or villages of La Capite - Bonvard, Sur-la-Ville, Les Jurets and Choulex. Choulex has a population () of . , 16.4% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last ten years (1999–2009) the population has changed at a rate of -0.3%. It has changed at a rate of 1.9% due to migration and at a rate of -2.1% due to births and deaths. Most of the population () speaks French (812 or 86.8%), with English being second most common (54 or 5.8%) and German being third (23 or 2.5%). the gender distribution of the population was 46.7% male and 53.3% female. The population was made up of 369 Swiss men (35.7% of the population) and 113 (10.9%) non-Swiss men. There were 430 Swiss women (41.6%) and 121 (11.7%) non-Swiss women. Of the population in the municipality 212 or about 22.7% were born in Choulex and lived there in 2000. There were 310 or 33.2% who were born in the same canton, while 123 or 13.2% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 237 or 25.3% were born outside of Switzerland.