Saint-Aubin-Sauges is a former municipality in the district of Boudry in the canton of Neuchâtel in Switzerland.
[3] Saint-Aubin-Sauges has an area, as of 2009[update], of 7.7 square kilometers (3.0 sq mi).
[4] The municipality is located in the Boudry district, in the La Béroche region.
[9] Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks French (2,054 or 84.7%) as their first language, Portuguese is the second most common (106 or 4.4%) and German is the third (105 or 4.3%).
[9] The historical population is given in the following chart:[3][13] The Le Béroche, a Gallo-Roman settlement, and the neolithic settlement at Port Conty / Tivoli are listed as Swiss heritage site of national significance.
[14] It is home to the Port-Conty prehistoric pile-dwelling (or stilt house) settlement that is part of the Prehistoric Pile dwellings around the Alps UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The site was discovered in 1860 by F. Troyon, who originally thought it was a Bronze Age village.
Further excavations in the late 19th and early 20th century found that it was a neolithic site.
[17] In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SP which received 27.34% of the vote.
In the federal election, a total of 779 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 50.7%.
[9] There were 1,176 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 44.0% of the workforce.
The number of jobs in the primary sector was 26, of which 21 were in agriculture, 2 were in forestry or lumber production and 3 were in fishing or fisheries.
In the tertiary sector; 89 or 23.2% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 10 or 2.6% were in the movement and storage of goods, 17 or 4.4% were in a hotel or restaurant, 1 was in the information industry, 4 or 1.0% were the insurance or financial industry, 29 or 7.6% were technical professionals or scientists, 13 or 3.4% were in education and 192 or 50.0% were in health care.
[9] From the 2000 census[update], 793 or 32.7% were Roman Catholic, while 860 or 35.4% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church.
During the 2010-11 school year, there were 3 kindergarten classes with a total of 50 students between the municipalities.