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Vandœuvres

Vandœuvres is a municipality of the Canton of Geneva, Switzerland.

Vandœuvres has an area, as of 2009, of 4.41 square kilometers (1.70 sq mi). Of this area, 1.72 km2 (0.66 sq mi) or 39.0% is used for agricultural purposes, while 0.26 km2 (0.10 sq mi) or 5.9% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 2.43 km2 (0.94 sq mi) or 55.1% is settled (buildings or roads).

Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 37.9% and transportation infrastructure made up 3.9%. Power and water infrastructure as well as other specially developed areas made up 1.1% of the area while parks, green belts and sports fields made up 11.8%. Out of the forested land, 2.3% of the total land area is heavily forested and 3.6% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 28.6% is used for growing crops and 7.9% is pastures, while 2.5% is used for orchards or vine crops.

The municipality of Vandœuvres consists of the sub-sections or villages of Bessinge - La Rippaz, Vandœuvres - village, Crête, Seymaz and Chougny.

Vandœuvres has a population (as of December 2020) of 2,754. As of 2008, 26.8% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1999–2009 ) the population has changed at a rate of 18%. It has changed at a rate of 15% due to migration and at a rate of 2% due to births and deaths.

Most of the population (as of 2000) speaks French (1,876 or 80.4%), with English being second most common (134 or 5.7%) and German being third (131 or 5.6%). There are 42 people who speak Italian and 1 person who speaks Romansh.

As of 2008, the gender distribution of the population was 49.5% male and 50.5% female. The population was made up of 904 Swiss men (33.6% of the population) and 428 (15.9%) non-Swiss men. There were 950 Swiss women (35.3%) and 409 (15.2%) non-Swiss women. Of the population in the municipality 340 or about 14.6% were born in Vandœuvres and lived there in 2000. There were 741 or 31.8% who were born in the same canton, while 332 or 14.2% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 856 or 36.7% were born outside of Switzerland.

In 2008 there were 17 live births to Swiss citizens and 9 births to non-Swiss citizens, and in the same time span there were 14 deaths of Swiss citizens and 4 non-Swiss citizen deaths. Ignoring immigration and emigration, the population of Swiss citizens increased by 3 while the foreign population increased by 5. There were 11 Swiss men and 7 Swiss women who emigrated from Switzerland. At the same time, there were 15 non-Swiss men and 10 non-Swiss women who immigrated from another country to Switzerland. The total Swiss population change in 2008 (from all sources, including moves across municipal borders) was a decrease of 16 and the non-Swiss population increased by 22 people. This represents a population growth rate of 0.2%.

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