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

[3] Archeological excavations have found evidence of several prehistoric settlements in the Stettlen area.

The earliest is several La Tène era graves which contain skeletons and some items of jewelry from near the modern Bleichestrasse.

During the High Middle Ages there was a small castle at Schwandiholz, of which no records remain.

[3] The village of Stettlen was the center of a number of small farms and the hamlet of Deisswil.

From 1700 until 1720 a Bernese patrician family built the Deisswilgut manor and mill in Stettlen.

Starting in 1757 Upper Deisswilgut became home to fulling, bleaching and dyeing plants that were built along the Worblen river.

[3] The local factories and good connections to Bern converted the village from agriculture into a typical suburban community.

Housing estates and apartment buildings began to replace farms starting in the 1950s.

Of the rest of the land, 0.79 km2 (0.31 sq mi) or 22.4% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.01 km2 (2.5 acres) or 0.3% is either rivers or lakes.

[5] The municipality is located between the Bantiger and Dentenberg mountains in the Worblen valley.

It consists of the village of Stettlen, the industrial park of Deisswil and the hamlet of Utzlenberg.

[10] Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks German (2,609 or 92.1%) as their first language, French is the second most common (50 or 1.8%) and Italian is the third (43 or 1.5%).

In the tertiary sector; 36 or 19.6% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 10 or 5.4% were in the movement and storage of goods, 29 or 15.8% were in a hotel or restaurant, 11 or 6.0% were in the information industry, 13 or 7.1% were technical professionals or scientists, 27 or 14.7% were in education and 27 or 14.7% were in health care.

[10] From the 2000 census[update], 417 or 14.7% were Roman Catholic, while 1,939 or 68.4% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church.

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.

[17] During the 2009-10 school year, there were a total of 265 students attending classes in Stettlen.