Chippis is a municipality in the district of Sierre in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.

[3] Chippis has an area, as of 2009[update], of 2 square kilometers (0.77 sq mi).

Of the rest of the land, 0.48 km2 (0.19 sq mi) or 24.2% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.07 km2 (17 acres) or 3.5% is either rivers or lakes and 0.17 km2 (0.066 sq mi) or 8.6% is unproductive land.

[4] The municipality is located in the Sierre district, on the left bank of the Rhone river.

The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Per fess by a bar wavy Argent chief per pale by a pallet wavy of the same, Gules a Cog-wheel of the first, Azure a church of the first and Gules three Mullets of Five of the first.

[8] Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks French (1,156 or 77.5%) as their first language, German is the second most common (107 or 7.2%) and Italian is the third (91 or 6.1%).

[8] The historical population is given in the following chart:[3][12] In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the CVP which received 31.08% of the vote.

In the federal election, a total of 533 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 65.3%.

[14] In the 2007 Swiss Council of States election a total of 521 votes were cast, of which 27 or about 5.2% were invalid.

[8] There were 713 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 42.9% of the workforce.

In the tertiary sector; 23 or 25.3% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 9 or 9.9% were in the movement and storage of goods, 20 or 22.0% were in a hotel or restaurant, 1 was the insurance or financial industry, 3 or 3.3% were technical professionals or scientists, 11 or 12.1% were in education.

[8] From the 2000 census[update], 1,182 or 79.3% were Roman Catholic, while 50 or 3.4% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church.