Cornaux
Cornaux is a municipality in the Swiss canton of Neuchâtel. History Cornaux is first mentioned in 1212 as Curnaul. Geography Cornaux has an area, , of . Of this area, or 45.8% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 22.2% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 31.1% is settled (buildings or roads), or 0.6% is either rivers or lakes and or 0.2% is unproductive land. Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 9.7% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 4.4% and transportation infrastructure made up 8.7%. Power and water infrastructure as well as other special developed areas made up 7.2% of the area while parks, green belts and sports fields made up 1.1%. Out of the forested land, 20.3% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.9% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 35.2% is used for growing crops and 5.7% is pastures, while 4.9% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is flowing water. The municipality is located at the foot of the Jura Mountains. It was part of the Neuchâtel district until the district level was eliminated on 1 January 2018. Coat of arms The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Azure, a Sun in splendour Or, in chief two Trefoils Argent. Demographics Cornaux has a population () of . , 19.4% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (2000–2010) the population has changed at a rate of 3.6%. It has changed at a rate of 0.1% due to migration and at a rate of 3.8% due to births and deaths. Most of the population () speaks French (1,286 or 87.3%) as their first language, German is the second most common (76 or 5.2%) and Italian is the third (31 or 2.1%). There are 2 people who speak Romansh. , the population was 50.1% male and 49.9% female. The population was made up of 589 Swiss men (38.6% of the population) and 175 (11.5%) non-Swiss men. There were 636 Swiss women (41.7%) and 126 (8.3%) non-Swiss women. Of the population in the municipality, 357 or about 24.2% were born in Cornaux and lived there in 2000. There were 416 or 28.2% who were born in the same canton, while 377 or 25.6% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 281 or 19.1% were born outside of Switzerland. , children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 25.6% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 63.2% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 11.2%. , there were 590 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 739 married individuals, 71 widows or widowers and 73 individuals who are divorced. , there were 603 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.4 persons per household. There were 179 households that consist of only one person and 34 households with