Plan-les-Ouates
Plan-les-Ouates | |
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State : | Switzerland |
Canton : | Geneva (GE) |
District : | No district division |
BFS no. : | 6633 |
Postal code : | 1228 |
UN / LOCODE : | CH PLO |
Coordinates : | 497 897 / 113663 |
Height : | 405 m above sea level M. |
Height range : | 394–477 m above sea level M. |
Area : | 5.85 km² |
Residents: | 10,657 (December 31, 2018) |
Population density : | 1822 inhabitants per km² |
Proportion of foreigners : (residents without citizenship ) |
22.3% (December 31, 2018) |
Website: | www.plan-les-ouates.ch |
Location of the municipality | |
Plan-les-Ouates is a municipality in the canton of Geneva in Switzerland .
geography
It is located south of the Aire and the Ruisseau des Marais . The locals are called Plan-les-Ouatiens .
The municipality, founded in 1851 from the former large municipality of Compesières , to which Bardonnex also belonged, consists of the villages of Saconnex-d'Arve, Arare, La Chapelle and Plan-les-Ouates.
population
Population development | |||||||||||
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year | 1860 | 1900 | 1950 | 1980 | 2000 | 2010 | 2012 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 |
Residents | 857 | 880 | 1665 | 3647 | 6804 | 9984 | 10250 | 10281 | 10344 | 10571 | 10677 |
politics
Legislative - Local Council
The legislative power is exercised by the municipal council (conseil municipal) . It has 25 seats and is elected directly by the people every five years using proportional representation with a 7 percent hurdle. The municipal council determines the city budget and votes on submissions from the city government (conseil administratif) . He can also launch initiatives himself. The graphic above shows the distribution of seats after the last municipal elections in March 2020.
Attractions
literature
- Jacques Barrelet: Plan-les-Ouates. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . 2010 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Permanent and non-permanent resident population by year, canton, district, municipality, population type and gender (permanent resident population). In: bfs. admin.ch . Federal Statistical Office (FSO), August 31, 2019, accessed on December 22, 2019 .
- ↑ Population résidante selon l'origine et le sexe, par commune, depuis 2013 . (XLS, 147 kB) In: ge.ch. Statistical Office of the Canton of Geneva ( Office cantonal de la statistique - OCSTAT), March 7, 2019, accessed on May 2, 2019 (French).
- ↑ Élection des conseils municipaux du 15 mars 2020. Retrieved on March 15, 2020 (French).