Brione sopra Minusio is a municipality in the district of Locarno in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.

However, until 1952, some common property was shared between Brione sopra Minusio and other communities, which led to some conflicts.

[3] The church of S. Maria Lauretana was built in 1558–59, and in the second half of the 19th Century it was rebuilt.

[3] Traditionally, the cultivation of wine, fruit, cereals and hemp as well as grazing were the main occupations of the inhabitants.

[3] The blazon of the municipality's coat of arms is: Azure, in base a mount of five coupeaux supporting a donkey passant argent and in chief three mullets of five points or.

[4] [5] Brione sopra Minusio has an area, as of 1997[update], of 3.84 square kilometers (1.48 sq mi).

Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks Italian (61.0%), with German being second most common (33.1%) and Portuguese being third (2.5%).

[8] The age distribution, as of 2009[update], in Brione sopra Minusio is; 34 children or 6.0% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 44 teenagers or 7.8% are between 10 and 19.

[9] The historical population is given in the following table:[3] In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the FDP which received 28.41% of the vote.

In the federal election, a total of 197 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 49.1%.

[14] In the 2007[update] Gran Consiglio election, there were a total of 413 registered voters in Brione sopra Minusio, of which 213 or 51.6% voted.

[9] There were 211 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 42.7% of the workforce.

[17] From the 2000 census[update], 319 or 65.9% were Roman Catholic, while 92 or 19.0% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church.

In the lower secondary school system, students either attend a two-year middle school followed by a two-year pre-apprenticeship or they attend a four-year program to prepare for higher education.

The upper secondary school includes several options, but at the end of the upper secondary program, a student will be prepared to enter a trade or to continue on to a university or college.

In Ticino, vocational students may either attend school while working on their internship or apprenticeship (which takes three or four years) or may attend school followed by an internship or apprenticeship (which takes one year as a full-time student or one and a half to two years as a part-time student).

The professional program lasts three years and prepares a student for a job in engineering, nursing, computer science, business, tourism and similar fields.

[16] In 2014 the crime rate, of the over 200 crimes listed in the Swiss Criminal Code (running from murder, robbery and assault to accepting bribes and election fraud), in Brione sopra Minusio was 43.6 per thousand residents.

The rate of violations of immigration, visa and work permit laws was 7.6 per thousand residents.