Hauterive (French pronunciation: [otʁiv] ⓘ) is a former municipality in the canton of Neuchâtel in Switzerland.

[3] The village's beginnings were first recorded in 1443 when monks founded the monastery Fontaine-André.

[4] Hauterive has an area, as of 2009[update], of 2.1 square kilometers (0.81 sq mi).

Of the rest of the land, 0.64 km2 (0.25 sq mi) or 30.2% is settled (buildings or roads).

The Hauterivian Age of the Cretaceous period of geological time is named for Hauterive.

[10] Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks French (2,175 or 82.5%) as their first language, German is the second most common (164 or 6.2%) and Italian is the third (92 or 3.5%).

[10] The historical population is given in the following chart:[3][14] The Laténium, the cantonal museum of archeology, is listed as a Swiss heritage site of national significance.

[15] In the 2007 Swiss federal election the most popular party was the SP which received 23.81% of the vote.

In the federal election, a total of 855 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 53.2%.

[10] There were 1,410 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 43.5% of the workforce.

The number of jobs in the primary sector was 9, of which 6 were in agriculture and 2 were in fishing or fisheries.

In the tertiary sector; 126 or 42.6% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 3 or 1.0% were in the movement and storage of goods, 21 or 7.1% were in a hotel or restaurant, 7 or 2.4% were in the information industry, 14 or 4.7% were the insurance or financial industry, 9 or 3.0% were technical professionals or scientists, 15 or 5.1% were in education and 53 or 17.9% were in health care.

[10] From the 2000 census[update], 851 or 32.3% were Roman Catholic, while 922 or 35.0% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church.