Le Pâquier (French pronunciation: [lə pakje]) is a former municipality in the district of Val-de-Ruz in the canton of Neuchâtel in Switzerland.

The municipalities of Boudevilliers, Cernier, Chézard-Saint-Martin, Coffrane, Dombresson, Engollon, Fenin-Vilars-Saules, Fontainemelon, Fontaines, Les Geneveys-sur-Coffrane, Les Hauts-Geneveys, Montmollin, Le Pâquier, Savagnier and Villiers merged on 1 January 2013 into the new municipality of Val-de-Ruz.

[2] Le Pâquier had an area, as of 2009[update], of 9.6 square kilometers (3.7 sq mi).

[3] The former municipality is located in the Val-de-Ruz district, in the north-east portion of the valley near the Neuchâtel-Saint-Imier road.

The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Argent, issuant from a Base Vert a Pine-tree of the same.

[7] Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks French (207 or 89.6%) as their first language, German is the second most common (22 or 9.5%) and Portuguese is the third (2 or 0.9%).

[7] The historical population is given in the following chart:[2][11] In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SVP which received 28.94% of the vote.

The number of jobs in the primary sector was 26, of which 24 were in agriculture and 1 was in forestry or lumber production.

In the tertiary sector; 2 were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 5 were in a hotel or restaurant and 1 was a technical professional or scientist.

[7] From the 2000 census[update], 16 or 6.9% were Roman Catholic, while 147 or 63.6% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church.

During the 2010-11 school year, there were 3 kindergarten classes with a total of 50 students between the municipalities.