Tafers (French: Tavel [tavɛl]; Arpitan: Tavél [taˈvi] ⓘ) is a municipality in the district of Sense in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland.

It is one of the municipalities with a large majority of German speakers in the mostly French speaking Canton of Fribourg.

[7] The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Gules, a Guard statant afrontee clad Azure and Sable ensigned with a Cross on sinister, holding in dexter a Halberd Argent.

[11] Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks German (2,361 or 89.9%) as their first language, French is the second most common (117 or 4.5%) and Serbo-Croatian is the third (35 or 1.3%).

[11] The historical population is given in the following chart:[15] The Parish Church of St. Martin and the Sigristen House are listed as Swiss heritage site of national significance.

[16] In the 2011 federal election the most popular party was the CVP which received 26.0% of the vote.

[17] The CVP received about the same percentage of the vote as they did in the 2007 Federal election (28.9% in 2007 vs 26.0% in 2011).

[11] There were 1,372 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 42.8% of the workforce.

In the tertiary sector; 112 or 14.2% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 10 or 1.3% were in the movement and storage of goods, 38 or 4.8% were in a hotel or restaurant, 10 or 1.3% were in the information industry, 19 or 2.4% were the insurance or financial industry, 23 or 2.9% were technical professionals or scientists, 57 or 7.2% were in education and 402 or 51.1% were in health care.

[11] From the 2000 census[update], 2,041 or 77.7% were Roman Catholic, while 276 or 10.5% 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.

The upper Secondary school is divided into gymnasium (university preparatory) and vocational programs.

After they finish the upper Secondary program, students may choose to attend a Tertiary school or continue their apprenticeship.

[21] During the 2010–11 school year, there were a total of 653 students attending 36 classes in Tafers.