[3] Conthey has an area, as of 2009[update], of 85 square kilometers (33 sq mi).

It consists of the village of Conthey (made up of Plan-Conthey, La Place, Le Bourg and Saint-Séverin) and the villages of Aven, Erde, Sensine, Premploz and Daillon in the Derborence area.

The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Argent, between two Branches of Vine Vert fructed Azure in saltire three Mullets of Five Gules.

[8] Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks French (5,716 or 91.3%) as their first language, German is the second most common (136 or 2.2%) and Portuguese is the third (130 or 2.1%).

[11] About 61.2% of the total households were owner occupied, or in other words did not pay rent (though they may have a mortgage or a rent-to-own agreement).

[8] The historical population is given in the following chart:[3][14] The entire region of Conthey-Bourg / Saint-Séverin is designated as part of the Inventory of Swiss Heritage Sites.

[17] In the 2007 Swiss Council of States election a total of 2,997 votes were cast, of which 193 or about 6.4% were invalid.

[8] There were 3,102 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 42.4% of the workforce.

The number of jobs in the primary sector was 206, of which 202 were in agriculture and 3 were in forestry or lumber production.

In the tertiary sector; 1,063 or 63.8% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 57 or 3.4% were in the movement and storage of goods, 144 or 8.6% were in a hotel or restaurant, 8 or 0.5% were in the information industry, 12 or 0.7% were the insurance or financial industry, 109 or 6.5% were technical professionals or scientists, 85 or 5.1% were in education and 31 or 1.9% were in health care.

[8] Dôle Blanche is a popular white wine, created from two red grapes, gamay and pinot noir.

Dôle Blanche was first created by Francois Udry at the Café de l'Union in Conthey in 1922.

[citation needed] From the 2000 census[update], 5,195 or 83.0% were Roman Catholic, while 294 or 4.7% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church.

The library has (as of 2008[update]) 21,500 books or other media, and loaned out 18,925 items in the same year.

It was open a total of 240 days with average of 11 hours per week during that year.