Tenero-Contra is a municipality in the district of Locarno in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.

Tenero-Contra has an area, as of 1997[update], of 3.69 square kilometers (1.42 sq mi).

Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks Italian (79.5%), with German being second most common (12.1%) and Serbo-Croatian being third (1.7%).

The total Swiss population change in 2008 (from all sources, including moves across municipal borders) was an increase of 61 and the non-Swiss population change was an increase of 5 people.

[5] The age distribution, as of 2009[update], in Tenero-Contra is; 267 children or 10.2% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 266 teenagers or 10.2% are between 10 and 19.

[6] The historical population is given in the following table:[11] The Australian-born Nobel Prize winner Sir John Carew Eccles (1903–1997) lived and died in Tenero-Contra.

In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the FDP which received 23.41% of the vote.

In the federal election, a total of 651 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 44.4%.

[12] In the 2007[update] Gran Consiglio election, there were a total of 1,390 registered voters in Tenero-Contra, of which 844 or 60.7% voted.

[6] There were 1,066 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 40.4% of the workforce.

[15] From the 2000 census[update], 1,764 or 76.9% were Roman Catholic, while 222 or 9.7% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church.

In the lower secondary school system, students either attend a two-year middle school followed by a two-year pre-apprenticeship or they attend a four-year program to prepare for higher education.

The upper secondary school includes several options, but at the end of the upper secondary program, a student will be prepared to enter a trade or to continue on to a university or college.

In Ticino, vocational students may either attend school while working on their internship or apprenticeship (which takes three or four years) or may attend school followed by an internship or apprenticeship (which takes one year as a full-time student or one and a half to two years as a part-time student).