Vendlincourt

Vendlincourt is a municipality in the district of Porrentruy in the canton of Jura in Switzerland. Vendlincourt is first mentioned in 1136 as Uuandeleincurt. Vendlincourt has an area of . Of this area, or 55.8% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 37.6% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 6.4% is settled (buildings or roads), or 0.2% is either rivers or lakes. Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 3.1% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.1%. Out of the forested land, all of the forested land area is covered with heavy forests. Of the agricultural land, 46.1% is used for growing crops and 8.8% is pastures. All the water in the municipality is in lakes. The municipality is located in the Porrentruy district. The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Azure, a Fleur-de-lis in chief between a Saltire Or. Vendlincourt has a population () of . , 7.6% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (2000–2010) the population has changed at a rate of -6%. Migration accounted for -6.9%, while births and deaths accounted for 1.7%. Most of the population () speaks French (566 or 91.7%) as their first language, German is the second most common (28 or 4.5%) and Italian is the third (10 or 1.6%). the population was 51.1% male and 48.9% female. The population was made up of 249 Swiss men (45.8% of the population) and 29 (5.3%) non-Swiss men. There were 249 Swiss women (45.8%) and 17 (3.1%) non-Swiss women. Of the population in the municipality, 269 or about 43.6% were born in Vendlincourt and lived there in 2000. There were 122 or 19.8% who were born in the same canton, while 54 or 8.8% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 74 or 12.0% were born outside of Switzerland. children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 25.3% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 54% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 20.7%. there were 241 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 309 married individuals, 39 widows or widowers and 28 individuals who are divorced.