Rubigen is a municipality in the Bern-Mittelland administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.

[3] The oldest traces of a settlement in the area include scattered neolithic and Bronze Age items and La Tene tombs.

The remains of a Roman era fountain and an early medieval cemetery have also been found.

Due to its proximity to the city Bernese patricians built their summer homes in the area.

[3] The roads and fields around the village were often damaged when the Aare river flooded.

The Jura water correction projects of 1824-31 finally controlled the river and allowed the villages to expand their infrastructure.

Despite the improved roads and the bridge, the villages remained generally small and rural.

[5] The municipality is located in the Aaretal (Aare Valley) and includes the village of Rubigen, the hamlets of Beitenwil, Kleinhöchstetten and Hunzigen as well as a number of individual farm houses.

On the following day, 1 January 2010, it joined the newly created Verwaltungskreis Bern-Mittelland.

[6] The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Sable a Pale and a chief Or and on the last three Roses Gules barbed and seeded proper.

[9] Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks German (2,296 or 91.8%) as their first language, French is the second most common (39 or 1.6%) and Italian is the third (33 or 1.3%).

The historical population is given in the following chart:[3][14] The entire hamlet of Kleinhöchstetten is designated as part of the Inventory of Swiss Heritage Sites.

[9] There were 1,456 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 45.1% of the workforce.

The number of jobs in the primary sector was 42, of which 38 were in agriculture and 4 were in fishing or fisheries.

In the tertiary sector; 91 or 25.9% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 4 or 1.1% were in the movement and storage of goods, 15 or 4.3% were in a hotel or restaurant, 8 or 2.3% were in the information industry, 10 or 2.8% were the insurance or financial industry, 22 or 6.3% were technical professionals or scientists, 21 or 6.0% were in education and 142 or 40.3% were in health care.

[9] From the 2000 census[update], 1,697 or 67.8% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church, while 330 or 13.2% 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.