Bière is a municipality in the Swiss canton of Vaud, located in the district of Morges.

[3] Bière has an area, as of 2009[update], of 25.01 square kilometers (9.66 sq mi).

Of the rest of the land, 1.68 km2 (0.65 sq mi) or 6.7% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.02 km2 (4.9 acres) or 0.1% is either rivers or lakes and 0.85 km2 (0.33 sq mi) or 3.4% is unproductive land.

[5] The municipality is located at the foot of the Jura Mountains in the middle of a largely agricultural valley.

The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Argent, from a base Gules three pine trees Vert.

[9] Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks French (1,182 or 87.4%), with German being second most common (49 or 3.6%) and Portuguese being third (48 or 3.5%).

[8] The age distribution, as of 2009[update], in Bière is; 145 children or 10.1% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 184 teenagers or 12.8% are between 10 and 19.

[9] The historical population is given in the following chart:[3][13] In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SVP which received 36.31% of the vote.

In the federal election, a total of 392 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 42.2%.

[9] There were 672 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 44.5% of the workforce.

The number of jobs in the primary sector was 51, of which 44 were in agriculture and 7 were in forestry or lumber production.

In the tertiary sector; 40 or 11.3% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 34 or 9.6% were in the movement and storage of goods, 36 or 10.2% were in a hotel or restaurant, 4 or 1.1% were in the information industry, 3 or 0.8% were the insurance or financial industry, 10 or 2.8% were technical professionals or scientists, 7 or 2.0% were in education and 15 or 4.2% were in health care.

From the 2000 census[update], 311 or 23.0% were Roman Catholic, while 765 or 56.5% 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.

[17] During the school year, the political district provided pre-school care for a total of 631 children of which 203 children (32.2%) received subsidized pre-school care.

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