Biberist is a municipality in the district of Wasseramt in the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland.

In 1300 Ober- and Unterbiberist were mentioned as ze beiden Biberschon.

Biberist has an area, as of 2009[update], of 12.3 square kilometers (4.7 sq mi).

while parks, green belts and sports fields made up 1.1%.

[4] The municipality is located in the Wasseramt district, between the Emme and Aare rivers south of Solothurn.

The two villages of Ober- and Unterbiberist were merged into a single municipality in 1857.

[5] The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Per fess Gules and Argent two Cramps in Saltire counterchanged.

[9] Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks German (6,644 or 87.4%), with Italian being second most common (277 or 3.6%) and Serbo-Croatian being third (175 or 2.3%).

[10] As of 2008[update], the gender distribution of the population was 48.9% male and 51.1% female.

[8] The age distribution, as of 2000[update], in Biberist is; 535 children or 7.0% of the population are between 0 and 6 years old and 1,153 teenagers or 15.2% are between 7 and 19.

[9] 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 25.21% of the vote.

In the federal election, a total of 2,329 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 44.1%.

[9] There were 3,960 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 44.2% of the workforce.

In the tertiary sector; 382 or 27.4% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 32 or 2.3% were in the movement and storage of goods, 96 or 6.9% were in a hotel or restaurant, 20 or 1.4% were in the information industry, 25 or 1.8% were the insurance or financial industry, 121 or 8.7% were technical professionals or scientists, 96 or 6.9% were in education and 386 or 27.7% were in health care.

[9] From the 2000 census[update], 2,459 or 32.3% were Roman Catholic, while 3,019 or 39.7% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church.

The education system in the Canton of Solothurn allows young children to attend two years of non-obligatory kindergarten.

All the lower secondary students from Biberist attend their school in a neighboring municipality.