Bretonnières is a municipality in the district of Jura-Nord Vaudois in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.

[3] Bretonnières has an area, as of 2009[update], of 5.5 square kilometers (2.1 sq mi).

Of the rest of the land, 0.5 km2 (0.19 sq mi) or 9.2% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.01 km2 (2.5 acres) or 0.2% is either rivers or lakes.

The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Per pale Argent and Gules, two wheat stalks counterchanged.

[9] Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks French (195 or 97.5%), with German being second most common (3 or 1.5%) and Italian being third (1 or 0.5%).

[10] The age distribution, as of 2009[update], in Bretonnières is; 15 children or 7.4% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 25 teenagers or 12.3% 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 26.87% of the vote.

In the federal election, a total of 86 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 52.8%.

[9] There were 97 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 38.1% of the workforce.

[9] From the 2000 census[update], 25 or 12.5% were Roman Catholic, while 122 or 61.0% 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.

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