Ormont-Dessus is a municipality of the canton of Vaud in Switzerland, located in the district of Aigle.

[3] Ormont-Dessus has an area, as of 2009[update], of 61.65 square kilometers (23.80 sq mi).

[4] The municipality is located in the Aigle district, in the upper section of the Grande-Eau valley.

It consists of the villages of Ormont-Dessus and Vers-l'Eglise as well as scattered individual settlements.

The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Azure, a Coupeaux Vert and a Crescent and Mullet of Five Or.

[8] Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks French (1,170 or 89.5%), with German being second most common (47 or 3.6%) and Portuguese being third (26 or 2.0%).

[7] The age distribution, as of 2009[update], in Ormont-Dessus is; 93 children or 6.4% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 128 teenagers or 8.8% are between 10 and 19.

[8] The historical population is given in the following chart:[3][12] The Swiss Reformed Church of Saint-Théodule and the village sawmill (French: Scierie) are listed as Swiss heritage site of national significance.

The villages of Vers-l’Église and La Ville are part of the Inventory of Swiss Heritage Sites.

[13] In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the FDP which received 34.38% of the vote.

In the federal election, a total of 404 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 42.2%.

[8] There were 639 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 42.1% of the workforce.

The number of jobs in the primary sector was 33, of which 30 were in agriculture and 3 were in forestry or lumber production.

In the tertiary sector; 58 or 15.0% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 31 or 8.0% were in the movement and storage of goods, 173 or 44.8% were in a hotel or restaurant, 2 or 0.5% were in the information industry, 10 or 2.6% were the insurance or financial industry, 7 or 1.8% were technical professionals or scientists, 8 or 2.1% were in education and 38 or 9.8% were in health care.

[8] From the 2000 census[update], 299 or 22.9% were Roman Catholic, while 768 or 58.8% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church.

In the Vaud cantonal school system, two years of non-obligatory pre-school are provided by the political districts.

The canton's primary school program requires students to attend for four years.