Leytron is a municipality in the district of Martigny in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.

[3] Leytron has an area, as of 2009[update], of 26.9 square kilometers (10.4 sq mi).

The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Vert between two Mullets of Five Or in chief on a Pale Or four Chevronnels Sable.

[8] Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks French (1,979 or 93.0%) as their first language, Portuguese is the second most common (72 or 3.4%) and German is the third (28 or 1.3%).

[8] The historical population is given in the following chart:[3][12] In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the CVP which received 42.45% of the vote.

[14] In the 2007 Swiss Council of States election a total of 1,147 votes were cast, of which 64 or about 5.6% were invalid.

[8] There were 1,086 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 44.0% of the workforce.

The number of jobs in the primary sector was 160, of which 152 were in agriculture and 8 were in forestry or lumber production.

In the tertiary sector; 97 or 17.4% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 25 or 4.5% were in the movement and storage of goods, 250 or 44.9% were in a hotel or restaurant, 11 or 2.0% were the insurance or financial industry, 17 or 3.1% were technical professionals or scientists, 40 or 7.2% were in education and 3 or 0.5% were in health care.

[8] From the 2000 census[update], 1,958 or 92.0% were Roman Catholic, while 83 or 3.9% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church.

The library has (as of 2008[update]) 7,800 books or other media, and loaned out 12,533 items in the same year.

It was open a total of 121 days with average of 9 hours per week during that year.