Ulmiz (French name: Ormey) is a municipality in the district of See in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland. It is one of the municipalities with a large majority of German speakers in the mostly French speaking Canton of Fribourg. History Ulmiz is first mentioned in 1200 as Hulmeis. In 1390 it was mentioned in French as Ormeis. Geography Ulmiz has an area of . Of this area, or 68.2% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 26.1% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 6.7% is settled (buildings or roads). Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 4.2% and transportation infrastructure made up 1.8%. Out of the forested land, 24.4% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.8% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 51.9% is used for growing crops and 15.2% is pastures, while 1.1% is used for orchards or vine crops. The municipality is located in the See/Lac district, in a small depression in the Biber river valley. Coat of arms The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Azure, a Church Argent roofed Gules on a base Vert. Demographics Ulmiz has a population () of . , 3.3% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (2000–2010) the population has changed at a rate of 24.8%. Migration accounted for 26.1%, while births and deaths accounted for 0.9%. Most of the population () speaks German (347 or 96.7%) as their first language, French is the second most common (9 or 2.5%) and Albanian is the third (1 or 0.3%). , the population was 50.5% male and 49.5% female. The population was made up of 204 Swiss men (49.0% of the population) and 6 (1.4%) non-Swiss men. There were 200 Swiss women (48.1%) and 6 (1.4%) non-Swiss women. Of the population in the municipality, 137 or about 38.2% were born in Ulmiz and lived there in 2000. There were 37 or 10.3% who were born in the same canton, while 162 or 45.1% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 20 or 5.6% were born outside of Switzerland. , children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 23.7% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 53.8% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 22.6%. , there were 143 people who were single and never married