Kehrsatz is a municipality in the Bern-Mittelland administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.

[3] The oldest trace of a settlement in the area are some La Tène graves which were discovered under Zimmerwaldstrasse 27.

During the Roman era there was a well developed village of Gallo-Roman farm houses at the Maygut - Breitenacker area.

By the 13th century a number of Bernese nobles and local monasteries owned pieces of the village and surrounding farms.

Over the centuries, a number of Bernese patrician families ruled over Kehrsatz.

[3] In the late 19th and early 20th century, a new highway and the Gürbetal-Bern-Schwarzenburg railroad (now part of the BLS) tied Kehrsatz closely with Bern.

In 1969, a primary and secondary school opened in Selhofen for the growing population.

[6] The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Azure two Bendlets Or and a Mullet of the same in chief sinister.

[9] Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks German (3,225 or 86.9%) as their first language, French is the second most common (74 or 2.0%) and Italian is the third (70 or 1.9%).

[14] The historical population is given in the following chart:[3][15][16] The country estate or Landsitz Lohn is listed as a Swiss heritage site of national significance.

In the federal election, a total of 1,645 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 59.3%.

[9] There were 1,973 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 43.6% of the workforce.

In the tertiary sector; 177 or 37.5% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 36 or 7.6% were in the movement and storage of goods, 20 or 4.2% were in a hotel or restaurant, 46 or 9.7% were in the information industry, 8 or 1.7% were the insurance or financial industry, 19 or 4.0% were technical professionals or scientists, 43 or 9.1% were in education and 66 or 14.0% were in health care.

[23] In 2011 a total of 5.9% of the population received direct financial assistance from the government.

[24] From the 2000 census[update], 2,253 or 60.7% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church, while 624 or 16.8% 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.

[25] During the 2011-12 school year, there were a total of 503 students attending classes in Kehrsatz.

The library has (as of 2008[update]) 5,268 books or other media, and loaned out 6,179 items in the same year.

It was open a total of 127 days with average of 6 hours per week during that year.