Ried-Brig is a municipality in the district of Brig in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.

[3] Ried-Brig has an area, as of 2011[update], of 47.5 square kilometers (18.3 sq mi).

[4] Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks German (1,519 or 96.0%) as their first language, French is the second most common (21 or 1.3%) and Italian is the third (13 or 0.8%).

[4] The historical population is given in the following chart:[3][11] In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the CVP which received 65.45% of the vote.

In the federal election, a total of 911 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 65.3%.

[13] In the 2007 Swiss Council of States election a total of 909 votes were cast, of which 25 or about 2.8% were invalid.

[4] There were 746 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 36.6% of the workforce.

The number of jobs in the primary sector was 40, of which 29 were in agriculture and 11 were in forestry or lumber production.

In the tertiary sector; 15 or 12.1% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 13 or 10.5% were in the movement and storage of goods, 30 or 24.2% were in a hotel or restaurant, 1 was in the information industry, 4 or 3.2% were the insurance or financial industry, 3 or 2.4% were technical professionals or scientists, 7 or 5.6% were in education and 38 or 30.6% were in health care.

[4] From the 2000 census[update], 1,391 or 87.9% were Roman Catholic, while 85 or 5.4% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church.

The education system in the Canton of Valais allows young children to attend one year of non-obligatory Kindergarten.

In Ried-Brig there were a total of 8 classes and 155 students in the primary school.

All the lower secondary students from Ried-Brig attend their school in a neighboring municipality.

[18] All the upper secondary students attended school in another municipality.