Grône is a municipality in the district of Sierre in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.

[3] Grône has an area, as of 2009[update], of 21.1 square kilometers (8.1 sq mi).

In the early history of the municipality, the village was often destroyed due to the Rhone floods, so the settlements in the hills were much more important.

The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Azure an Ibex rampant Argent on Coupeaux Vert.

[8] Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks French (1,720 or 92.2%) as their first language, German is the second most common (54 or 2.9%) and Portuguese is the third (41 or 2.2%).

[8] The historical population is given in the following chart:[3][12] In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the CVP which received 36.54% of the vote.

In the federal election, a total of 904 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 62.3%.

[14] In the 2007 Swiss Council of States election a total of 894 votes were cast, of which 52 or about 5.8% were invalid.

[8] There were 910 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 42.5% of the workforce.

In the tertiary sector; 34 or 18.5% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 32 or 17.4% were in the movement and storage of goods, 19 or 10.3% were in a hotel or restaurant, 4 or 2.2% were the insurance or financial industry, 4 or 2.2% were technical professionals or scientists, 49 or 26.6% were in education.

[8] From the 2000 census[update], 1,628 or 87.2% were Roman Catholic, while 63 or 3.4% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church.

The library has (as of 2008[update]) 9,786 books or other media, and loaned out 6,042 items in the same year.

It was open a total of 174 days with average of 11 hours per week during that year.