Suchy is a municipality in the district of Jura-Nord Vaudois of the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.
History
Suchy is first mentioned in 885 as Solpiaco id est Suzchie.
Geography
Suchy has an area, , of . Of this area, or 59.6% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 37.2% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 3.5% is settled (buildings or roads).
Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 1.5% and transportation infrastructure made up 1.2%. Out of the forested land, all of the forested land area is covered with heavy forests. Of the agricultural land, 50.0% is used for growing crops and 8.7% is pastures.
The municipality was part of the Yverdon District until it was dissolved on 31 August 2006, and Suchy became part of the new district of Jura-Nord Vaudois.
Coat of arms
The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Per pale Argent and Azure, two Keys in saltire counterchanged.
Demographics
Suchy has a population () of . , 10.2% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1999–2009 ) the population has changed at a rate of 25.1%. It has changed at a rate of 18.6% due to migration and at a rate of 6% due to births and deaths.
Most of the population () speaks French (316 or 91.6%) as their first language, with German being second most common (19 or 5.5%) and Portuguese being third (6 or 1.7%).
The age distribution, , in Suchy is; 63 children or 15.1% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 51 teenagers or 12.2% are between 10 and 19. Of the adult population, 39 people or 9.4% of the population are between 20 and 29 years old. 81 people or 19.4% are between 30 and 39, 65 people or 15.6% are between 40 and 49, and 50 people or 12.0% are between 50 and 59. The senior population distribution is 33 people or 7.9% of the population are between 60 and 69 years old, 22 people or 5.3% are between 70 and 79, there are 10 people or 2.4% who are between 80 and 89, and there are 3 people or 0.7% who are 90 and older.
, there were 140 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 176 married individuals, 18 widows or widowers and 11 individuals who are divorced.
, there were 125 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.7 persons per household. There were 35 households that consist of only one person and 10 households with five or more people. Out of a total of 130 households that answered this question, 26.9% were households made up of just one person. Of the rest of the households, there are 27 married couples without children, 55 married couples with children There were 5 single parents with a child or children. There were 3 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 48 single family homes (or 52.2% of the total) out of a total of 92 inhabited buildings. There were 15 multi-family buildings (16.3%), along with 23 multi-purpose buildings that were mostly used for housing (25.0%) and 6 other use buildings (commercial or industrial) that also had some housing (6.5%).
, a total of 117 apartments (85.4% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 17 apartments (12.4%) were seasonally occupied and 3 apartments (2.2%) were empty. , the construction rate of new housing units was 9.6 new units per 1000 residents. The vacancy rate for the municipality, , was 1.92%.
The historical population is given in the following chart:
Politics
In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SVP which received 25.48% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SP (20.62%), the FDP (14.29%) and the LPS Party (10.83%). In the federal election, a total of 110 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 42.1%.
Economy
, Suchy had an unemployment rate of 3.2%. , there were 31 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 14 businesses involved in this sector. 29 people were employed in the secondary sector and there were 7 businesses in this sector. 18 people were employed in the tertiary sector, with 12 businesses in this sector. There were 189 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 42.9% of the workforce.