Le Noirmont is a municipality in the district of Franches-Montagnes in the canton of Jura in Switzerland.
[5] The municipality is located in the Franches-Montagnes district, on a high plateau (elevation c. 1,100 metres [3,600 ft]) that stretches to the Doubs river.
[6] The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Or, a Deer's Head afrontee Sable with a Latin Cross radiating Gules between the antlers and Coupeaux of Six of the second.
[10] Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks French (1,425 or 91.3%) as their first language, German is the second most common (47 or 3.0%) and Portuguese is the third (29 or 1.9%).
[10] The historical population is given in the following chart:[3][14] The farm house at Les Esserts 32 is listed as a Swiss heritage site of national significance.
The entire urban village of Le Noirmont is part of the Inventory of Swiss Heritage Sites.
[15] In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SPS which received 39.64% of the vote.
In the federal election, a total of 483 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 42.0%.
[10] There were 796 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 41.2% of the workforce.
The number of jobs in the primary sector was 47, of which 41 were in agriculture and 5 were in forestry or lumber production.
In the tertiary sector; 173 or 36.6% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 12 or 2.5% were in the movement and storage of goods, 56 or 11.8% were in a hotel or restaurant, 58 or 12.3% were in the information industry, 7 or 1.5% were the insurance or financial industry, 17 or 3.6% were technical professionals or scientists, 25 or 5.3% were in education and 103 or 21.8% were in health care.
From the 2000 census[update], 1,159 or 74.2% were Roman Catholic, while 159 or 10.2% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church.
This is followed by three years of obligatory lower Secondary school where the students are separated according to ability and aptitude.
[19] During the 2009–10 school year, there were a total of 260 students attending 15 classes in Le Noirmont.