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

[3] Concise has an area, as of 2009[update], of 11.4 square kilometers (4.4 sq mi).

It stretches from the shores of Lake Neuchatel to Mont Aubert.

[6] The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Azure, a Buck salient Or.

[10] Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks French (603 or 88.2%), with German being second most common (40 or 5.8%) and Portuguese being third (22 or 3.2%).

[9] The age distribution, as of 2009[update], in Concise is; 90 children or 11.6% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 94 teenagers or 12.1% are between 10 and 19.

[10] The historical population is given in the following chart:[3][14] The Ancienne Chartreuse De La Lance, the Roman era quarry at La Raisse/En Favarges and the bay and lakeshore neolithic and Bronze Age settlements of Sous-Colachoz are listed as Swiss heritage site of national significance.

The entire village of Concise and the La Lance area are both part of the Inventory of Swiss Heritage Sites.

[15] In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SVP which received 29% of the vote.

In the federal election, a total of 239 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 49.8%.

[10] There were 337 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 44.5% of the workforce.

The number of jobs in the primary sector was 36, of which 34 were in agriculture and 2 were in forestry or lumber production.

In the tertiary sector; 11 or 14.9% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 2 or 2.7% were in the movement and storage of goods, 8 or 10.8% were in a hotel or restaurant, 7 or 9.5% were the insurance or financial industry, 2 or 2.7% were technical professionals or scientists, 7 or 9.5% were in education and 25 or 33.8% were in health care.

[10] From the 2000 census[update], 147 or 21.5% were Roman Catholic, while 394 or 57.6% 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.

[19] During the school year, the political district provided pre-school care for a total of 578 children of which 359 children (62.1%) received subsidized pre-school care.

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