Clavaleyres was a municipality in the Bern-Mittelland administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.

[3] Finds of bronze rings imply a settlement in the area during the La Tène era.

During the Roman Empire the area was an estate which supplied the nearby city of Aventicum.

[4] There have been various attempts to merge the municipality with Münchenwiler, another exclave of the canton of Bern in the nearby area.

In autumn 2018, the populations of Clavaleyres and Murten voted to merge the two municipalities.

It forms a German-speaking exclave on the border between the French-speaking Cantons of Fribourg and Vaud.

On the following day, 1 January 2010, it joined the newly created Verwaltungskreis Bern-Mittelland.

[8] The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Gules a Bear Paw issuant from chief sinister holding a Key Or.

[11] Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks German (47 or 88.7%) as their first language, French is the second most common (5 or 9.4%) and Polish is the third (1 or 1.9%).

[15] The historical population is given in the following chart:[4][16] As of  2011[update], Clavaleyres had an unemployment rate of 0%.

[11] There were 31 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 45.2% of the workforce.

The greatest number of workers, 6, made between 50 and 75 thousand CHF per year.

[21] From the 2000 census[update], 38 or 71.7% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church, while 1 or 1.9% was Roman Catholic.