Courtételle

Courtételle is a municipality in the district of Delémont in the canton of Jura in Switzerland.

It consists of the village of Courtételle and a number of scattered hamlets and farm houses.

The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Gules, Coupeaux of Six Vert bordered Or.

[9] Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks French (1,999 or 91.7%) as their first language, Italian is the second most common (57 or 2.6%) and German is the third (46 or 2.1%).

[9] The historical population is given in the following chart:[3][13] In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SPS which received 43.76% of the vote.

In the federal election, a total of 634 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 40.8%.

[9] There were 1,059 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 40.3% of the workforce.

The number of jobs in the primary sector was 33, of which 30 were in agriculture and 3 were in forestry or lumber production.

The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 329 of which 262 or (79.6%) were in manufacturing and 67 (20.4%) were in construction.

In the tertiary sector; 64 or 29.1% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 10 or 4.5% were in the movement and storage of goods, 12 or 5.5% were in a hotel or restaurant, 2 or 0.9% were in the information industry, 6 or 2.7% were the insurance or financial industry, 6 or 2.7% were technical professionals or scientists, 65 or 29.5% were in education and 18 or 8.2% were in health care.

[9] From the 2000 census[update], 1,736 or 79.6% were Roman Catholic, while 188 or 8.6% 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.

Train station.
Aerial view (1955)