Port-Valais (French pronunciation: [pɔʁ valɛ]) is a municipality of the district of Monthey in the French-speaking part of the canton of Valais in Switzerland.

[3] Port-Valais has an area, as of 2009[update], of 14.4 square kilometers (5.6 sq mi).

[4] The municipality is located in the Monthey district, at the mouth of the Rhone into Lake Geneva.

It consists of the villages of Le Bouveret and Les Evouettes and the hamlet of Port-Valais.

[8] Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks French (1,903 or 80.5%) as their first language, German is the second most common (107 or 4.5%) and English is the third (54 or 2.3%).

[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 33.53% of the vote.

[14] In the 2007 Swiss Council of States election a total of 852 votes were cast, of which 74 or about 8.7% were invalid.

[8] There were 1,061 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 42.4% of the workforce.

The number of jobs in the primary sector was 20, of which 19 were in agriculture and 1 was in fishing or fisheries.

The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 127 of which 58 or (45.7%) were in manufacturing, 34 or (26.8%) were in mining and 36 (28.3%) were in construction.

In the tertiary sector; 61 or 17.1% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 27 or 7.6% were in the movement and storage of goods, 66 or 18.5% were in a hotel or restaurant, 5 or 1.4% were in the information industry, 4 or 1.1% were the insurance or financial industry, 13 or 3.6% were technical professionals or scientists, 81 or 22.7% were in education and 13 or 3.6% were in health care.

[8] From the 2000 census[update], 1,418 or 60.0% were Roman Catholic, while 442 or 18.7% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church.