However, only the municipalities of Montsevelier, Vermes and Vicques merged on 1 January 2013 into Val Terbi.

[6] The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Gules, a Saltire Or, in chief a Mullet of Five of the same.

[10] Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks French (2,505 or 91.7%) as their first language, German is the second most common (96 or 3.5%) and Italian is the third (40 or 1.5%).

[10] The historical population is given in the following chart:[3][14] The entire hamlet of Courcelon is designated as part of the Inventory of Swiss Heritage Sites.

[15] In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SPS which received 44.06% of the vote.

In the federal election, a total of 887 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 42.4%.

[10] There were 1,394 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 41.7% of the workforce.

The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 301 of which 148 or (49.2%) were in manufacturing, 46 or (15.3%) were in mining and 87 (28.9%) were in construction.

In the tertiary sector; 80 or 38.1% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 6 or 2.9% were in the movement and storage of goods, 34 or 16.2% were in a hotel or restaurant, 9 or 4.3% were the insurance or financial industry, 13 or 6.2% were technical professionals or scientists, 25 or 11.9% were in education and 23 or 11.0% were in health care.

[10] From the 2000 census[update], 2,005 or 73.4% were Roman Catholic, while 379 or 13.9% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church.

This is followed by three years of obligatory lower Secondary school where the students are separated according to ability and aptitude.

[19] During the 2009-10 school year, there were a total of 327 students attending 17 classes in Courroux.

[18] In 2014 the crime rate, of the over 200 crimes listed in the Swiss Criminal Code (running from murder, robbery and assault to accepting bribes and election fraud), in Courroux was 40 per thousand residents.

The rate of violations of immigration, visa and work permit laws was 1.9 per thousand residents.