Chézard-Saint-Martin is a former municipality in the district of Val-de-Ruz in the canton of Neuchâtel in Switzerland.
The municipalities of Boudevilliers, Cernier, Chézard-Saint-Martin, Coffrane, Dombresson, Engollon, Fenin-Vilars-Saules, Fontainemelon, Fontaines, Les Geneveys-sur-Coffrane, Les Hauts-Geneveys, Montmollin, Le Pâquier, Savagnier and Villiers merged on 1 January 2013 into the new municipality of Val-de-Ruz.
The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Per pale Or, a Cross couped Gules between four Hurts, and Azure, Saint Martin statant holding a crosier Or.
[7] Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks French (1,494 or 93.3%) as their first language, German is the second most common (41 or 2.6%) and Italian is the third (14 or 0.9%).
[7] The historical population is given in the following chart:[2][11] The farm house at Rue Jean-Labran 4 and the farm house at Rue Jean-Labran 6 are listed as Swiss heritage site of national significance.
[12] In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SP which received 20.62% of the vote.
In the federal election, a total of 708 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 60.9%.
[7] There were 809 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 42.0% of the workforce.
The number of jobs in the primary sector was 42, of which 41 were in agriculture and 1 was in forestry or lumber production.
In the tertiary sector; 37 or 25.2% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 27 or 18.4% were in the movement and storage of goods, 4 or 2.7% were in a hotel or restaurant, 5 or 3.4% were in the information industry, 1 was the insurance or financial industry, 10 or 6.8% were technical professionals or scientists, 9 or 6.1% were in education and 35 or 23.8% were in health care.
[7] From the 2000 census[update], 321 or 20.0% were Roman Catholic, while 789 or 49.3% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church.
[16] During the 2010-11 school year, there were 2 kindergarten classes with a total of 44 students in Chézard-Saint-Martin.