Vuarrens is a municipality in the district of Gros-de-Vaud in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.
Geography
Vuarrens has an area, , of . Of this area, or 70.6% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 24.1% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 5.5% is settled (buildings or roads).
Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 2.7% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.2%. Out of the forested land, all of the forested land area is covered with heavy forests. Of the agricultural land, 56.7% is used for growing crops and 12.8% is pastures, while 1.1% is used for orchards or vine crops.
The municipality was part of the Échallens District until it was dissolved on 31 August 2006, and Vuarrens became part of the new district of Gros-de-Vaud.
Coat of arms
The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Per fess: 1. per pale Argent and Gules, two Pyxes counterchanged; 2. Vert, a Garb Or.
Demographics
Vuarrens has a population () of . , 8.1% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1999–2009 ) the population has changed at a rate of 38.4%. It has changed at a rate of 30.6% due to migration and at a rate of 8.2% due to births and deaths.
Most of the population () speaks French (533 or 94.3%), with German being second most common (14 or 2.5%) and Spanish being third (6 or 1.1%). There are 4 people who speak Italian.
Of the population in the municipality 202 or about 35.8% were born in Vuarrens and lived there in 2000. There were 229 or 40.5% who were born in the same canton, while 74 or 13.1% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 47 or 8.3% were born outside of Switzerland.
In there were 6 live births to Swiss citizens and 1 birth to non-Swiss citizens, and in same time span there were 4 deaths of Swiss citizens and 1 non-Swiss citizen death. Ignoring immigration and emigration, the population of Swiss citizens increased by 2 while the foreign population remained the same. There were 2 Swiss men who emigrated from Switzerland. At the same time, there were 4 non-Swiss men who immigrated from another country to Switzerland. The total Swiss population change in 2008 (from all sources, including moves across municipal borders) was an increase of 17 and the non-Swiss population increased by 7 people. This represents a population growth rate of 3.5%.
The age distribution, , in Vuarrens is; 119 children or 16.0% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 111 teenagers or 15.0% are between 10 and 19. Of the adult population, 79 people or 10.6% of the population are between 20 and 29 years old. 127 people or 17.1% are between 30 and 39, 102 people or 13.7% are between 40 and 49, and 74 people or 10.0% are between 50 and 59. The senior population distribution is 65 people or 8.8% of the population are between 60 and 69 years old, 31 people or 4.2% are between 70 and 79, there are 27 people or 3.6% who are between 80 and 89, and there are 7 people or 0.9% who are 90 and older.
, there were 236 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 261 married individuals, 37 widows or widowers and 31 individuals who are divorced.
, there were 216 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.5 persons per household. There were 54 households that consist of only one person and 18 households with five or more people. Out of a total of 221 households that answered this question, 24.4% were households made up of just one person and there were 5 adults who lived with their parents. Of the rest of the households, there are 60 married couples without children, 76 married couples with children There were 16 single parents with a child or children. There were 5 households that were made up of unrelated people and 5 households that were made up of some sort of institution or another collective housing.
there were 56 single family homes (or 42.1% of the total) out of a total of 133 inhabited buildings. There were 22 multi-family buildings (16.5%), along with 46 multi-purpose buildings that were mostly used for housing (34.6%) and 9 other use buildings (commercial or industrial) that also had some housing (6.8%). Of the single family homes 20 were built before 1919, while 3 were built between 1990 and 2000. The greatest number of multi-family homes (7) were built before 1919 and again between 1981 and 1990.