Troinex is a municipality of the Canton of Geneva, Switzerland.
Geography
Troinex has an area, , of . Of this area, or 67.0% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 7.3% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 26.3% is settled (buildings or roads).
Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 19.0% and transportation infrastructure made up 5.8%. Out of the forested land, 1.8% of the total land area is heavily forested and 5.6% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 48.8% is used for growing crops and 2.0% is pastures, while 16.1% is used for orchards or vine crops.
The municipality of Troinex consists of the sub-sections or villages of Troinex - village, Troinex - Dessous, Troinex - Dessus, Troinex - Marais and Les Dolens.
Demographics
Troinex has a population () of . , 20.5% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1999–2009 ) the population has changed at a rate of 13.8%. It has changed at a rate of 8% due to migration and at a rate of 7.7% due to births and deaths.
Most of the population () speaks French (1,747 or 86.1%), with German being second most common (80 or 3.9%) and English being third (75 or 3.7%). There are 24 people who speak Italian and 2 people who speak Romansh.
, the gender distribution of the population was 49.2% male and 50.8% female. The population was made up of 858 Swiss men (39.4% of the population) and 213 (9.8%) non-Swiss men. There were 918 Swiss women (42.2%) and 188 (8.6%) non-Swiss women. Of the population in the municipality 309 or about 15.2% were born in Troinex and lived there in 2000. There were 829 or 40.8% who were born in the same canton, while 319 or 15.7% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 491 or 24.2% were born outside of Switzerland.
In there were 15 live births to Swiss citizens and 5 births to non-Swiss citizens, and in same time span there were 10 deaths of Swiss citizens and 1 non-Swiss citizen death. Ignoring immigration and emigration, the population of Swiss citizens increased by 5 while the foreign population increased by 4. There were 8 Swiss men and 2 Swiss women who emigrated from Switzerland. At the same time, there were 6 non-Swiss men and 14 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 an increase of 19 and the non-Swiss population increased by 32 people. This represents a population growth rate of 2.4%.
The age distribution of the population () is children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 27.1% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 59.5% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 13.4%.
, there were 863 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 972 married individuals, 80 widows or widowers and 115 individuals who are divorced.
, there were 771 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.5 persons per household. There were 195 households that consist of only one person and 49 households with five or more people. Out of a total of 802 households that answered this question, 24.3% were households made up of just one person and there were 3 adults who lived with their parents. Of the rest of the households, there are 206 married couples without children, 285 married couples with children There were 72 single parents with a child or children. There were 10 households that were made up of unrelated people and 31 households that were made up of some sort of institution or another collective housing.
there were 354 single-family homes (or 72.7% of the total) out of a total of 487 inhabited buildings. There were 81 multi-family buildings (16.6%), along with 39 multi-purpose buildings that were mostly used for housing (8.0%) and 13 other use buildings (commercial or industrial) that also had some housing (2.7%). Of the single-family homes 40 were built before 1919, while 55 were built between 1990 and 2000. The greatest number of single-family homes (72) were built between 1981 and 1990. The most multi-family homes (20) were built before 1919 and the next most (17) were built between 1991 and 1995. There were 6 multi-family houses built between 1996 and 2000.