Grimisuat is a municipality in the district of Sion in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.

[3] Grimisuat has an area, as of 2009[update], of 4.4 square kilometers (1.7 sq mi).

[4] The municipality is located in the Sion district, on the right bank of the Rhone river.

It consists of the village of Grimisuat and the hamlets of Comera and Les Combes.

The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Gules, a Fleur-de-lys Argent between in chief two Mullets of Six Or.

[8] Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks French (2,128 or 91.3%) as their first language, German is the second most common (95 or 4.1%) and Portuguese is the third (42 or 1.8%).

[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 51.71% of the vote.

In the federal election, a total of 1,331 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 72.8%.

[14] In the 2007 Swiss Council of States election a total of 1,308 votes were cast, of which 97 or about 7.4% were invalid.

[8] There were 1,076 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 41.8% of the workforce.

In the tertiary sector; 59 or 21.1% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 14 or 5.0% were in the movement and storage of goods, 30 or 10.8% were in a hotel or restaurant, 1 was in the information industry, 4 or 1.4% were the insurance or financial industry, 21 or 7.5% were technical professionals or scientists, 31 or 11.1% were in education and 87 or 31.2% were in health care.

[8] From the 2000 census[update], 1,985 or 85.2% were Roman Catholic, while 138 or 5.9% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church.