Boécourt is a municipality in the district of Delémont in the canton of Jura in Switzerland.
[5] The municipality is located in the Delemont district, south of the Les Rangiers junction on the Glovelier-Porrentruy road.
[6] The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Azure, a Garb Or ribboned and arched with three Mullets [of Six] of the same.
[10] Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks French (744 or 91.4%) as their first language, German is the second most common (32 or 3.9%) and Italian is the third (16 or 2.0%).
[10] The historical population is given in the following chart:[3][14] In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SPS which received 29.12% of the vote.
In the federal election, a total of 227 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 38.0%.
[10] There were 403 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 40.0% of the workforce.
In 2008[update] the total number of full-time equivalent jobs was 383.
In the tertiary sector; 5 or 15.2% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 2 or 6.1% were in the movement and storage of goods, 7 or 21.2% were in a hotel or restaurant, 2 or 6.1% were technical professionals or scientists, 7 or 21.2% were in education.
[10] From the 2000 census[update], 641 or 78.7% were Roman Catholic, while 61 or 7.5% 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.
[19] As of 2000[update], there were 71 students from Boécourt who attended schools outside the municipality.