Roches (French pronunciation: [ʁɔʃ]) is a municipality in the Jura bernois administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.

[3] For most of its history the village was owned by provost of Moutier-Grandval under the Prince-Bishop of Basel.

After Napoleon's defeat and the Congress of Vienna, Roches was assigned to the Canton of Bern in 1815.

Even while the glass factory was in operation, the village remained generally agrarian.

In 1876 the Basel-Moutier railroad opened a station in Roches and the village became a local industrial center.

However, this industrial growth was short-lived and today only small firms operate in Roches.

On the following day, 1 January 2010, it joined the newly created Arrondissement administratif Jura bernois.

[6] The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Per pale Gules and Argent a Monastery Counterchanged.

[9] Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks French (184 or 81.8%) as their first language, German is the second most common (34 or 15.1%) and Italian is the third (3 or 1.3%).

In the federal election, a total of 68 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 39.3%.

[9] There were 122 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 41.0% of the workforce.

The number of jobs in the primary sector was 13, of which 11 were in agriculture and 3 were in forestry or lumber production.

[22] From the 2000 census[update], 95 or 42.2% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church, while 71 or 31.6% were Roman Catholic.

This is followed by three years of obligatory lower Secondary school where the students are separated according to ability and aptitude.

Following the lower Secondary students may attend additional schooling or they may enter an apprenticeship.

[23] During the 2011-12 school year, there were a total of 11 students attending classes in Roches.