La Brillaz is a municipality in the district of Sarine in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland. It was created from the 2001 union of Lentigny, Lovens, and Onnens. Geography La Brillaz has an area, , of . Of this area, or 70.9% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 19.1% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 8.5% is settled (buildings or roads), or 0.3% is either rivers or lakes and or 0.9% is unproductive land. Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 5.6% and transportation infrastructure made up 1.7%. Out of the forested land, all of the forested land area is covered with heavy forests. Of the agricultural land, 54.6% is used for growing crops and 15.2% is pastures, while 1.2% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is in lakes. The municipality is located in the Sarine district. Coat of arms The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Per fess Argent a Saltire Sable and pally of six Argent and Gules. The current coat of arms includes elements from all three former municipalities. Demographics La Brillaz has a population () of . , 8.5% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (2000–2010) the population has changed at a rate of 33.7%. Migration accounted for 22.1%, while births and deaths accounted for 10.4%. Most of the population () speaks French (93.3%) as their first language, German is the second most common (4.2%) and Danish is the third (0.7%). , the population was 50.6% male and 49.4% female. The population was made up of 778 Swiss men (45.5% of the population) and 88 (5.1%) non-Swiss men. There were 775 Swiss women (45.3%) and 70 (4.1%) non-Swiss women. , children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 27.9% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 62.6% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 9.4%. , the construction rate of new housing units was 7.1 new units per 1000 residents. Politics In the 2011 federal election the most popular party was the SPS which received 28.1% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the CVP (21.3%), the SVP (18.8%) and the FDP (13.3%). The SPS received about the same percentage of the vote as they did in the 2007 Federal election (28.4% in 2007 vs 28.1%