Bévilard is a municipality in the Jura bernois administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.

After Napoleon's defeat and the Congress of Vienna, Bévilard was assigned to the Canton of Bern in 1815.

The church was the center of a parish that originally included Bévilard, Malleray and Pontenet.

[2] The village was generally agrarian until the Basel-Delémont-Biel railroad built a station between Bévilard and Malleray in 1877.

The convenient link to the transportation network encouraged several precision machining and watch making factories to set up in the municipality.

The watch industry was a major source of income and led to a growing population in the municipality until the 1970s.

Beginning in the 1970s, competition from cheaper electronic watches forced many Swiss watchmakers out of business and the population in Bévilard dropped.

Of the rest of the land, 0.71 km2 (0.27 sq mi) or 12.5% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.01 km2 (2.5 acres) or 0.2% is either rivers or lakes.

Over the years it and the village of Malleray have grown together into a single settled area.

On the following day, 1 January 2010, it joined the newly created Arrondissement administratif Jura bernois.

[5] The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Azure a Dagger Argent in bend hilted Or in chief.

[3] Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks French (1,417 or 85.1%) as their first language, German is the second most common (99 or 5.9%) and Italian is the third (78 or 4.7%).

In the federal election, a total of 482 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 41.2%.

[3] There were 789 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 37.6% of the workforce.

In the tertiary sector; 55 or 32.2% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 15 or 8.8% were in a hotel or restaurant, 4 or 2.3% were in the information industry, 8 or 4.7% were the insurance or financial industry, 18 or 10.5% were technical professionals or scientists, 12 or 7.0% were in education and 6 or 3.5% were in health care.

[17] From the 2000 census[update], 743 or 44.6% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church, while 484 or 29.1% were Roman Catholic.

This is followed by three years of obligatory lower Secondary school where the students are separated according to ability and aptitude.

Following the lower Secondary students may attend additional schooling or they may enter an apprenticeship.

[18] During the 2011-12 school year, there were a total of 131 students attending classes in Bévilard.