Le Chenit is a municipality in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland, located in the district of Jura-Nord Vaudois in the Vallée de Joux.

[3] Le Chenit has an area, as of 2009[update], of 99.25 square kilometers (38.32 sq mi).

[5] It is located in the heart of the La Vallée in the Jura on the French-Swiss border.

The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Gules, a Key upright crossed with a Rifle and a Sword in saltire all Argent.

[9] Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks French (3,807 or 88.6%), with Italian being second most common (124 or 2.9%) and German being third (108 or 2.5%).

[10] Of the population in the municipality 1,775 or about 41.3% were born in Le Chenit and lived there in 2000.

[8] The age distribution, as of 2009[update], in Le Chenit is; 412 children or 9.7% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 486 teenagers or 11.4% are between 10 and 19.

[9] The historical population is given in the following chart:[3][13] The entire villages of Le Sentier and Le Solliat and the hamlet of Chez-les-Aubert are designated as part of the Inventory of Swiss Heritage Sites.

[14] In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SP which received 37.65% of the vote.

In the federal election, a total of 1,063 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 40.9%.

[9] There were 2,053 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 43.6% of the workforce.

The number of jobs in the primary sector was 83, of which 49 were in agriculture and 35 were in forestry or lumber production.

In the tertiary sector; 384 or 40.5% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 39 or 4.1% were in the movement and storage of goods, 103 or 10.9% were in a hotel or restaurant, 25 or 2.6% were in the information industry, 19 or 2.0% were the insurance or financial industry, 35 or 3.7% were technical professionals or scientists, 85 or 9.0% were in education and 162 or 17.1% were in health care.

[9] From the 2000 census[update], 1,255 or 29.2% were Roman Catholic, while 1,978 or 46.0% 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.

[18] During the school year, the political district provided pre-school care for a total of 578 children of which 359 children (62.1%) received subsidized pre-school care.

The canton's primary school program requires students to attend for four years.