Les Breuleux

Les Breuleux (French pronunciation: [le bʁœlø]) is a municipality in the district of Franches-Montagnes in the canton of Jura in Switzerland.

[6] The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Or, a Pine Tree Vert trunked Sable issuant from Coupeaux of the last enflamed Gules.

[10] Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks French (1,247 or 92.6%) as their first language, Portuguese is the second most common (42 or 3.1%) and German is the third (29 or 2.2%).

[12] Of the population in the municipality, 658 or about 48.8% were born in Les Breuleux and lived there in 2000.

[10] The historical population is given in the following chart:[3][14] The farm house at Du Peu-Girard 46 A and the farm house at Sur le Cratan 13 are listed as Swiss heritage site of national significance.

[15] In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SPS which received 34.65% of the vote.

In the federal election, a total of 500 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 53.0%.

[10] There were 672 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 44.2% of the workforce.

The number of jobs in the primary sector was 47, of which 42 were in agriculture and 5 were in forestry or lumber production.

In the tertiary sector; 28 or 21.9% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 11 or 8.6% were in the movement and storage of goods, 13 or 10.2% were in a hotel or restaurant, 2 or 1.6% were in the information industry, 1 was the insurance or financial industry, 6 or 4.7% were technical professionals or scientists, 25 or 19.5% were in education and 3 or 2.3% were in health care.

[10] From the 2000 census[update], 1,031 or 76.5% were Roman Catholic, while 122 or 9.1% 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 285 students attending 15 classes in Les Breuleux.

Pasture near Les Breuleux
Aerial view from 300 m by Walter Mittelholzer (1931)
Les Breuleux village
Farm houses outside Les Breuleux village
Farm House at Du Peu-Girard 46 A
Farm House at Sur le Cratan 13
Les Breuleux railway station
Les Breuleux church