Villars-le-Terroir is a municipality in the district of Gros-de-Vaud in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. Geography Villars-le-Terroir has an area, , of . Of this area, or 77.2% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 14.4% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 8.9% is settled (buildings or roads). Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 5.2% and transportation infrastructure made up 3.1%. Out of the forested land, all of the forested land area is covered with heavy forests. Of the agricultural land, 64.0% is used for growing crops and 12.8% is pastures. The municipality was part of the Echallens District until it was dissolved on 31 August 2006, and Villars-le-Terroir became part of the new district of Gros-de-Vaud. Coat of arms The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Azure, a Chevron Argent between three Bezants (Or) two and one. Demographics Villars-le-Terroir has a population () of . , 5.8% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1999–2009 ) the population has changed at a rate of 19%. It has changed at a rate of 13.3% due to migration and at a rate of 4.7% due to births and deaths. Most of the population () speaks French (600 or 94.2%), with German being second most common (16 or 2.5%) and Italian being third (5 or 0.8%). Of the population in the municipality 272 or about 42.7% were born in Villars-le-Terroir and lived there in 2000. There were 207 or 32.5% who were born in the same canton, while 73 or 11.5% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 60 or 9.4% were born outside of Switzerland. In there were 7 live births to Swiss citizens and 1 birth to non-Swiss citizens, and in same time span there were 8 deaths of Swiss citizens. Ignoring immigration and emigration, the population of Swiss citizens decreased by 1 while the foreign population increased by 1. There were 2 Swiss men and 2 Swiss women who immigrated back to Switzerland. At the same time, there were 4 non-Swiss men and 2 non-Swiss women who immigrated from another country to Switzerland. The total Swiss population change in 2008 (from all sources, including moves across municipal borders) was a decrease of 6 and the non-Swiss population decreased by 3 people. This represents a population growth rate of -1.2%. The age distribution, , in