Siviriez (; ) is a municipality in the district of Glâne in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland.
History
Siviriez is first mentioned in 1147 as Sivrie.
Geography
Siviriez has an area, , of . Of this area, or 74.5% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 17.2% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 8.0% is settled (buildings or roads), or 0.2% is either rivers or lakes and or 0.2% is unproductive land.
Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 4.9% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.9%. Out of the forested land, 15.6% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.6% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 29.4% is used for growing crops and 44.2% is pastures. All the water in the municipality is flowing water.
On 1 January 1978 the former municipalities of Villaranon and Le Saulgy merged into the municipality of Siviriez. In 2004 the former municipalities of Prez-vers-Siviriez, Villaraboud and Chavannes-les-Forts also merged into Siviriez.
Coat of arms
The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Gules, a Barrulet wavy Azure abased, overall a Semi Lion rampant Or issuant from coupeaux Argent and in chief two Mullets of the third pierced.
Demographics
Siviriez has a population () of . , 9.3% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (2000–2010) the population has changed at a rate of 14.3%. Migration accounted for 13.5%, while births and deaths accounted for 1.6%.
Most of the population () speaks French (902 or 93.5%) as their first language, Portuguese is the second most common (26 or 2.7%) and German is the third (17 or 1.8%). There are 2 people who speak Italian.
, the population was 50.4% male and 49.6% female. The population was made up of 931 Swiss men (45.0% of the population) and 111 (5.4%) non-Swiss men. There were 936 Swiss women (45.3%) and 90 (4.4%) non-Swiss women. Of the population in the municipality, 389 or about 40.3% were born in Siviriez and lived there in 2000. There were 322 or 33.4% who were born in the same canton, while 108 or 11.2% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 102 or 10.6% were born outside of Switzerland.
, children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 30.7% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 55.2% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 14.1%.
, there were 426 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 453 married individuals, 56 widows or widowers and 30 individuals who are divorced.
, there were 634 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.8 persons per household. There were 74 households that consist of only one person and 37 households with five or more people. , a total of 320 apartments (92.0% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 18 apartments (5.2%) were seasonally occupied and 10 apartments (2.9%) were empty. , the construction rate of new housing units was 9.7 new units per 1000 residents. The vacancy rate for the municipality, , was 0.26%.
The historical population is given in the following chart:
Sights
The entire village of Chavannes-les-Forts is designated as part of the Inventory of Swiss Heritage Sites.
Politics
In the 2011 federal election the most popular party was the CVP which received 26.1% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SVP (25.0%), the SP (23.7%) and the FDP (10.4%).
The CVP received about the same percentage of the vote as they did in the 2007 Federal election (28.1% in 2007 vs 26.1% in 2011). The SVP retained about the same popularity (26.6% in 2007), the SPS retained about the same popularity (19.2% in 2007) and the FDP lost popularity (18.8% in 2007). A total of 647 votes were cast in this election, of which 6 or 0.9% were invalid.
Economy
, Siviriez had an unemployment rate of 2%. , there were 203 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 73 businesses involved in this sector. 148 people were employed in the secondary sector and there were 29 businesses in this sector. 229 people were employed in the tertiary sector, with 44 businesses in this sector. There were 440 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 39.3% of the workforce.