Overview
Mauborget () is a municipality in the district of Jura-Nord Vaudois in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.
History
Mauborget is first mentioned in 1403 as Malborget.
Geography
Mauborget has an area, , of . Of this area, or 25.4% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 70.6% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 4.2% is settled (buildings or roads) and or 0.2% is unproductive land. Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 1.6% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.5%. Out of the forested land, 67.2% of the total land area is heavily forested and 3.4% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 0.0% is used for growing crops and 16.2% is pastures and 9.3% is used for alpine pastures. The municipality is located between Chasseron mountain and Mont Aubert, on the road between Grandson to Môtiers. It is the highest village of the Vaudois Jura, with an elevation of .
Coat of arms
The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Pally of Six Argent and Azure, overall a Bend semi-raguly Gules.
Demographics
Mauborget has a population () of . , 9.7% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1999–2009) the population has changed at a rate of -1.2%. It has changed at a rate of -9.4% due to migration and at a rate of 8.2% due to births and deaths. Most of the population () speaks French (79 or 92.9%), with German being second most common (4 or 4.7%) and English being third (1 or 1.2%). , there were 24 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 50 married individuals, 6 widows or widowers and 5 individuals who are divorced. , there were 37 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.2 persons per household. there were 88 apartments in the municipality. The most common apartment size was 4 rooms of which there were 32. There were 2 single-room apartments and 23 apartments with five or more rooms.
Of these apartments, a total of 37 apartments (42.0% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 45 apartments (51.1%) were seasonally occupied and 6 apartments (6.8%) were empty.
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Politics
In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SVP which received 42.29% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the Green Party (16.06%), the LPS Party (9.86%) and the FDP (9.7%). In the federal election, a total of 35 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 53.0%.
Economy
, Mauborget had an unemployment rate of 9.2%. , there were 15 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 5 businesses involved in this sector. No one was employed in the secondary sector. 6 people were employed in the tertiary sector, with 2 businesses in this sector. , there were 25 workers who commuted away from the municipality. Of the working population, 6.5% used public transportation to get to work, and 47.8% used a private car.
Religion
From the , 18 or 21.2% were Roman Catholic, while 44 or 51.8% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church. Of the rest of the population, there was 1 member of an Orthodox church, there were 2 individuals (or about 2.35% of the population) who belonged to the Christian Catholic Church. There were 2 (or about 2.35% of the population) who were Islamic. 16 (or about 18.82% of the population) belonged to no church, are agnostic or atheist, and 2 individuals (or about 2.35% of the population) did not answer the question.
Education
In Mauborget about 36 or (42.4%) of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education, and 13 or (15.3%) have completed additional higher education (either university or a Fachhochschule). Of the 13 who completed tertiary schooling, 61.5% were Swiss men, 38.5% were Swiss women. During the school year, the political district provided pre-school care for a total of 578 children of which 359 children (62.1%) received subsidized pre-school care. The canton's primary school program requires students to attend for four years. There were 4 students in the municipal primary school program. The obligatory lower secondary school program lasts for six years and there were 7 students in those schools. , there were 8 students from Mauborget who attended schools outside the municipality.
Roses
Mauborget features in the story of the discovery of the dwarf rose breeding stock.