Les Planchettes (French pronunciation: [le plɑ̃ʃɛt]) is a municipality in the canton of Neuchâtel in Switzerland.

[3] Les Planchettes has an area, as of 2009[update], of 11.7 square kilometers (4.5 sq mi).

Of the rest of the land, 0.35 km2 (0.14 sq mi) or 3.0% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.3 km2 (0.12 sq mi) or 2.6% is either rivers or lakes and 0.02 km2 (4.9 acres) or 0.2% is unproductive land.

The municipality stretches from the Doubs river to the northern slope of the Pouillerel.

[9] Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks French (205 or 91.1%) as their first language, German is the second most common (16 or 7.1%) and Dutch is the third (2 or 0.9%).

[12] 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 31.06% of the vote.

In the federal election, a total of 83 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 50.9%.

[9] There were 108 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 38.0% of the workforce.

[9] From the 2000 census[update], 48 or 21.3% were Roman Catholic, while 114 or 50.7% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church.

[17] The primary school in Les Planchettes is combined with La Chaux-de-Fonds.

During the 2010–11 school year, there were 0.5 kindergarten classes with a total of 7 students in Les Planchettes.

[18] As of 2000[update], there were 26 students from Les Planchettes who attended schools outside the municipality.