Saint-Saphorin-sur-Morges

Saint-Saphorin-sur-Morges is a former municipality in the Swiss canton of Vaud, located in the district of Morges. The villages of Colombier, Monnaz and Saint-Saphorin-sur-Morges merged on 1 July 2011 into the municipality of Echichens. Saint-Saphorin-sur-Morges is first mentioned in 1171 as Sancti Simphoriani. Saint-Saphorin-sur-Morges has an area, , of . Of this area, or 88.7% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 4.5% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 7.1% is settled (buildings or roads). Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 4.7% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.4%. Out of the forested land, 2.6% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.8% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 80.2% is used for growing crops and 4.0% is pastures, while 4.5% is used for orchards or vine crops. The village is located in a high valley between the Venoge and the Morges rivers. The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Argent, on a Cross Sable five Mullets of Six pierced of the first. Saint-Saphorin-sur-Morges had a population (as of 2009) of 453. , 13.0% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1999–2009 ) the population has changed at a rate of 22.8%. It has changed at a rate of 17.3% due to migration and at a rate of 4.9% due to births and deaths. Most of the population () speaks French (344 or 90.3%), with German being second most common (13 or 3.4%) and Swedish being third (6 or 1.6%). There are 2 people who speak Italian and 3 people who speak Romansh. Of the population in the village 94 or about 24.7% were born in Saint-Saphorin-sur-Morges and lived there in 2000. There were 171 or 44.9% who were born in the same canton, while 54 or 14.2% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 50 or 13.1% were born outside of Switzerland. In there were 0 live births to Swiss citizens or resident non-citizens. Ignoring immigration and emigration, the population of Swiss citizens remained the same while the foreign population remained the same.