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Oron-la-Ville

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Oron-la-Ville is a small town and former municipality in the district of Lavaux-Oron in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. The municipalities of Bussigny-sur-Oron, Châtillens, Chesalles-sur-Oron, Ecoteaux, Oron-la-Ville, Oron-le-Châtel, Palézieux, Les Tavernes, Les Thioleyres and Vuibroye merged on 1 January 2012 into the new municipality of Oron. Oron-la-Ville is first mentioned about 280 as Uromago. In 1018 it was mentioned as Auronum. Oron-la-Ville has an area, , of . Of this area, or 66.5% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 12.6% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 19.0% is settled (buildings or roads), or 0.6% is either rivers or lakes and or 0.3% is unproductive land. Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 11.9% and transportation infrastructure made up 4.8%. Out of the forested land, all of the forested land area is covered with heavy forests. Of the agricultural land, 50.6% is used for growing crops and 13.2% is pastures, while 2.6% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is flowing water. The municipality was part of the Oron District until it was dissolved on 31 August 2006, and Oron-la-Ville became part of the new district of Lavaux-Oron. The municipality is located along the right bank of the Broye in the eastern part of the Jorat region. The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Gules, a Crescent increscent Or. Oron-la-Ville has a population () of 1,438. , 19.7% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1999–2009 ) the population has changed at a rate of 19.3%. It has changed at a rate of 26.3% due to migration and at a rate of -5.9% due to births and deaths. Most of the population () speaks French (1,105 or 90.3%), with German being second most common (39 or 3.2%) and Portuguese being third (29 or 2.4%). There are 16 people who speak Italian. The age distribution, , in Oron-la-Ville is; 168 children or 12.0% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 180 teenagers or 12.9% are between 10 and 19.
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