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

[3] Cronay has an area, as of 2009[update], of 6.6 square kilometers (2.5 sq mi).

[6] The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Argent, a Saltire engrailed Azure, four Torteaux.

[10] Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks French (299 or 97.1%) as their first language, with German being second most common (4 or 1.3%) and Italian being third (2 or 0.6%).

[11] The age distribution, as of 2009[update], in Cronay is; 20 children or 6.5% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 41 teenagers or 13.4% are between 10 and 19.

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

[15] In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SVP which received 40.92% of the vote.

In the federal election, a total of 133 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 56.6%.

[10] There were 149 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 35, of which 27 were in agriculture and 8 were in forestry or lumber production.

[10] From the 2000 census[update], 35 or 11.4% were Roman Catholic, while 202 or 65.6% 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.

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