Épendes is a municipality in the district of Jura-Nord Vaudois of the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.

[3] The municipality is the site of the Château d'Épendes and the Observatory of Épendes, which is open to the public.

Of the rest of the land, 0.45 km2 (0.17 sq mi) or 9.3% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.1 km2 (25 acres) or 2.1% is either rivers or lakes.

[10] Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks French (288 or 90.0%) as their first language, with Portuguese being second most common (10 or 3.1%) and German being third (9 or 2.8%).

[11] The age distribution, as of 2009[update], in Épendes is; 43 children or 13.6% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 35 teenagers or 11.0% are between 10 and 19.

[10] The historical population is given in the following chart:[3][14] In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SVP which received 31.34% of the vote.

In the federal election, a total of 106 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 46.9%.

[10] There were 183 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 42.1% of the workforce.

In the tertiary sector; 3 or 37.5% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 1 was in the movement and storage of goods, 2 or 25.0% were in a hotel or restaurant, 2 or 25.0% were in education.

[10] From the 2000 census[update], 67 or 20.9% were Roman Catholic, while 197 or 61.6% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church.

In the Vaud cantonal school system, two years of non-obligatory pre-school are provided by the political districts.

The canton's primary school program requires students to attend for four years.

[17] The municipality has a railway station, Ependes VD, on the Jura Foot line.