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

[3] La Praz has an area, as of 2009[update], of 5.1 square kilometers (2.0 sq mi).

Of the rest of the land, 0.17 km2 (0.066 sq mi) or 3.3% is settled (buildings or roads).

[9] Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks French (111 or 94.9%), with German being second most common (5 or 4.3%) and English being third (1 or 0.9%).

[10] The age distribution, as of 2009[update], in La Praz is; 22 children or 13.3% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 25 teenagers or 15.2% are between 10 and 19.

[9] The historical population is given in the following chart:[3][13] In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SVP which received 36.84% of the vote.

[9] There were 59 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 40.7% of the workforce.

In the tertiary sector; 2 or 50.0% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 1 was in a hotel or restaurant, .

[9] From the 2000 census[update], 12 or 10.3% were Roman Catholic, while 83 or 70.9% 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.

[18] As of 2000[update], there were 18 students from La Praz who attended schools outside the municipality.