Court is a municipality in the Jura bernois administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.

[3] Between the 12th and 15th centuries the village of Mévilier or Minvilier existed between Court and Champoz.

For most of its history, Court was part of the district of Orval which was owned by the provost of Moutier-Grandval Abbey.

After Napoleon's defeat and the Congress of Vienna, Court was assigned to the Canton of Bern in 1815.

The first major road through the Court Gorge in 1752 connected the village to the rest of the country and allowed it to grow.

In 1911-16 a tunnel was built through the Jura Mountains which connected Court to Moutier and Grenchen.

The excellent transportation links encouraged small factories to settle in Court.

Today about two-thirds of the workers in the municipality work in the industrial sector, mostly in small companies.

It also includes about a dozen isolated farm houses in le Chaluet, on Graitery, on Mont Girod and in Montoz.

On the following day, 1 January 2010, it joined the newly created Arrondissement administratif Jura bernois.

[7] The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Azure a Horn Or ringed Argent and stringed Gules and a Chief of the first three pales Or.

[10] Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks French (1,202 or 89.1%) as their first language, German is the second most common (89 or 6.6%) and Portuguese is the third (14 or 1.0%).

[10] There were 675 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 42.7% of the workforce.

The number of jobs in the primary sector was 55, of which 40 were in agriculture and 15 were in forestry or lumber production.

In the tertiary sector; 18 or 14.3% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 14 or 11.1% were in the movement and storage of goods, 21 or 16.7% were in a hotel or restaurant, 2 or 1.6% were in the information industry, 8 or 6.3% were technical professionals or scientists, 8 or 6.3% were in education and 21 or 16.7% were in health care.

[19] For comparison, the rate for the entire canton in the same year, was 14.2% for married residents and 22.0% for single.

[21] From the 2000 census[update], 714 or 52.9% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church, while 273 or 20.2% were Roman Catholic.

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

Following the lower Secondary students may attend additional schooling or they may enter an apprenticeship.

[22] During the 2011-12 school year, there were a total of 112 students attending classes in Court.