Confignon

Confignon
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Location of Confignon
Coordinates: 46°10′N 06°1′E / 46.167°N 6.017°E / 46.167; 6.017Coordinates: 46°10′N 06°1′E / 46.167°N 6.017°E / 46.167; 6.017
Country	Switzerland
Canton	Geneva
District	n.a.
Government
• Mayor	Maire Alain Dreier
Area
• Total	2.77 km2 (1.07 sq mi)
Elevation	435 m (1,427 ft)
Population (Dec 2015)
• Total	4,520
• Density	1,600/km2 (4,200/sq mi)
Postal code	1232
SFOS number	6618
Surrounded by	Bernex, Onex, Perly-Certoux, Plan-les-Ouates
Website	www.confignon.ch SFSO statistics

Largest groups of foreign residents 2013

Nationality	Amount	% total (population)
France	145	3.3
Italy	114	2.6
Portugal	113	2.5
Spain	54	1.2
USA	33	0.8
UK	32	0.7
Germany	31	0.7
Belgium	15	0.3
Poland	14	0.3
Czech Republic	14	0.3

Confignon is a municipality of the Canton of Geneva, Switzerland.

Confignon is first mentioned in 1153 as Cofiniacum. The current, independent municipality was created in 1851 when the former municipality of Onex-Confignon divided into the municipalities of Onex and Confignon.

Confignon has an area, as of 2009^[update], of 2.77 square kilometers (1.07 sq mi). Of this area, 1.3 km² (0.50 sq mi) or 46.9% is used for agricultural purposes, while 0.23 km² (0.089 sq mi) or 8.3% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 1.19 km² (0.46 sq mi) or 43.0% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.03 km² (7.4 acres) or 1.1% is either rivers or lakes.

Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 25.6% and transportation infrastructure made up 7.9%. Power and water infrastructure as well as other special developed areas made up 2.2% of the area while parks, green belts and sports fields made up 6.9%. Out of the forested land, 5.4% of the total land area is heavily forested and 2.9% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 28.2% is used for growing crops and 5.8% is pastures, while 13.0% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is flowing water. The municipality is located along the left side of the Rhone river.

The municipality of Confignon consists of the sub-sections or villages of Le Coteau, Confignon - village, Cressy - Evaux, Cressy - Sur-le-Beau, Narly - Lécherette, Plaine-de-l'Aire - Les Charrotons and Plaine-de-l'Aire - Champs-Blancs.

Confignon has a population (as of December 2015^[update]) of 4,520. As of 2008^[update], 16.9% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1999–2009 ) the population has changed at a rate of 37.8%. It has changed at a rate of 33.5% due to migration and at a rate of 4.5% due to births and deaths.

Most of the population (as of 2000^[update]) speaks French (2,650 or 87.4%), with German being second most common (137 or 4.5%) and English being third (79 or 2.6%).