Bassecourt is a former municipality in the district of Delémont in the canton of Jura in Switzerland.

The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Or three Piles in fess shortened Sable.

[8] Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks French (2,904 or 88.5%) as their first language, Italian is the second most common (104 or 3.2%) and German is the third (95 or 2.9%).

[8] The historical population is given in the following chart:[2][12] In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SPS which received 30.11% of the vote.

In the federal election, a total of 874 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 39.4%.

[8] There were 1,578 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 41.6% of the workforce.

The number of jobs in the primary sector was 28, of which 22 were in agriculture and 6 were in forestry or lumber production.

The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 787 of which 654 or (83.1%) were in manufacturing and 133 (16.9%) were in construction.

In the tertiary sector; 290 or 49.4% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 23 or 3.9% were in the movement and storage of goods, 31 or 5.3% were in a hotel or restaurant, 8 or 1.4% were in the information industry, 11 or 1.9% were the insurance or financial industry, 27 or 4.6% were technical professionals or scientists, 58 or 9.9% were in education and 107 or 18.2% were in health care.

[8] From the 2000 census[update], 2,619 or 79.8% were Roman Catholic, while 287 or 8.7% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church.

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

[16] During the 2009-10 school year, there were a total of 607 students attending 31 classes in Bassecourt.

[18] During the same year, there were 15 lower secondary classes with a total of 278 students.