Porrentruy District (, ) is one of the three districts of the

canton of Jura The Republic and Canton of Jura (officially in ), less formally the Canton of Jura or Canton Jura ( ; ), is the newest (founded in 1979) of the 26 Swiss cantons, located in the northwestern part of Switzerland. The capital is Delémont. It shar ...

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. Its capital is the town of

Porrentruy Porrentruy (; ; ) is a Swiss municipality and seat of the district of the same name located in the canton of Jura. Porrentruy is home to National League team, HC Ajoie. History The first trace of human presence in Porrentruy is a Mesolit ...

. The

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-speaking district has a population of (as of ).

Municipalities

Porrentruy is divided into a total of 20

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Coat of arms

The

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of the district

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is ''Gules a Fess Argent, overall a Cockatrice Or volant holding in legs and beak a Crosier of the same.''

Demographics

Porrentruy has a population () of . Most of the population () speaks

(22,008 or 91.8%) as their first language,

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is the second most common (1,001 or 4.2%) and

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is the third (306 or 1.3%). There are 8 people who speak Romansh. , the population was 48.8% male and 51.2% female. The population was made up of 10,585 Swiss men (43.7% of the population) and 1,243 (5.1%) non-Swiss men. There were 11,322 Swiss women (46.7%) and 1,083 (4.5%) non-Swiss women. Of the population in the district, 9,552 or about 39.8% were born in Porrentruy and lived there in 2000. There were 7,448 or 31.1% who were born in the same canton, while 2,708 or 11.3% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 3,388 or 14.1% were born outside of Switzerland. , there were 9,390 people who were single and never married in the district. There were 11,599 married individuals, 1,854 widows or widowers and 1,128 individuals who are divorced.STAT-TAB Datenwürfel für Thema 40.3 - 2000
accessed 2 February 2011 There were 3,245 households that consist of only one person and 747 households with five or more people. The historical population is given in the following chart: Colors= id:lightgrey value:gray(0.9) id:darkgrey value:gray(0.8) ImageSize = width:960 height:210 PlotArea = height:150 left:100 bottom:50 right:100 AlignBars = justify DateFormat = x.y Period = from:0 till:27000 TimeAxis = orientation:vertical AlignBars = justify ScaleMajor = gridcolor:darkgrey increment:5000 start:0 ScaleMinor = gridcolor:lightgrey increment:1000 start:0 PlotData= color:yellowgreen width:40 mark:(line,white) align:center bar:1850 from:start till:20565 text:"20,565" bar:1860 from:start till:21890 text:"21,890" bar:1870 from:start till:23988 text:"23,988" bar:1880 from:start till:24209 text:"24,209" bar:1888 from:start till:25419 text:"25,419" bar:1900 from:start till:26578 text:"26,578" bar:1910 from:start till:25611 text:"25,611" bar:1920 from:start till:25324 text:"25,324" bar:1930 from:start till:23679 text:"23,679" bar:1941 from:start till:24263 text:"24,263" bar:1950 from:start till:25212 text:"25,212" bar:1960 from:start till:25651 text:"25,651" bar:1970 from:start till:26135 text:"26,135" bar:1980 from:start till:24384 text:"24,384" bar:1990 from:start till:23904 text:"23,904" bar:2000 from:start till:23971 text:"23,971"

Mergers and name changes

* On 1 January 2009, seventeen municipalities merged into four new municipalities ** The former municipalities of Montenol, Montmelon, Ocourt, Saint-Ursanne and Seleute merged to form the new municipality of Clos du Doubs. ** The former municipalities of Asuel, Charmoille, Fregiécourt, Miécourt and Pleujouse merged to form the new municipality of La Baroche. ** The former municipalities of Buix, Courtemaîche and Montignez merged to form the new municipality of Basse-Allaine. ** The former municipalities of Chevenez, Damvant, Réclère and Roche-d'Or merged to form the new municipality of Haute-Ajoie.
accessed 4 April 2011 * On 1 January 2013 the former municipality of

Bressaucourt Bressaucourt is a former municipality in the district of Porrentruy in the canton of Jura in Switzerland. On 1 January 2013 the former municipality of Bressaucourt merged into the municipality of Fontenais.Corban merged into the municipality of

Haute-Ajoie Haute-Ajoie () is a municipality in the district of Porrentruy in the canton of Jura in Switzerland. It was founded on 1 January 2009 by the former municipalities of Chevenez, Damvant, Réclère and Roche-d'Or.Damphreux Damphreux () is a former municipalities of Switzerland, municipality in the district of Porrentruy (district), Porrentruy in the Cantons of Switzerland, canton of Jura (canton), Jura in Switzerland. History Damphreux is first mentioned in 1161 as ...

and

Lugnez Lugnez is a former municipality in the district of Porrentruy in the canton of Jura in Switzerland. History Lugnez is first mentioned around 501-600 as ''Lugduniaco''. In 1225 it was mentioned as ''Lunigie''. On 1 January 2023, Damphreux and Lu ...

merged into the new municipality of

Damphreux-Lugnez Damphreux-Lugnez is a municipalities of Switzerland, municipality in the district of Porrentruy District, Porrentruy in the Cantons of Switzerland, canton of Jura (canton), Jura in Switzerland. It was established on 1 January 2023 with the merger ...

. * On 1 January 2024 the former municipalities of

Beurnevésin Beurnevésin () is a former municipalities of Switzerland, municipality in the district of Porrentruy (district), Porrentruy in the Cantons of Switzerland, canton of Jura (canton), Jura in Switzerland. History Beurnevésin is first mentioned in ...

and

Bonfol Bonfol () is a former municipalities of Switzerland, municipality in the district of Porrentruy (district), Porrentruy in the Cantons of Switzerland, canton of Jura (canton), Jura in Switzerland. It was also home to one of the most hazardous waste ...

merged into the new municipality of

Basse-Vendline Basse-Vendline is a municipalities of Switzerland, municipality in the district of Porrentruy District, Porrentruy in the canton of Jura in Switzerland. It was established on 1 January 2024 with the merger of the municipalities of Beurnevésin an ...

Politics

In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the CVP which received 33.81% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SPS (31.98%), the FDP (16.2%) and the SVP (12.88%). In the federal election, a total of 8,374 votes were cast, and the

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was 46.7%.

Religion

From the , 18,473 or 77.1% were

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, while 2,423 or 10.1% belonged to the

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. Of the rest of the population, there were 79 members of an Orthodox church (or about 0.33% of the population), there were 15 individuals (or about 0.06% of the population) who belonged to the Christian Catholic Church, and there were 733 individuals (or about 3.06% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There were 8 individuals (or about 0.03% of the population) who were

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, and 287 (or about 1.20% of the population) who were

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ic. There were 30 individuals who were

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, 8 individuals who were

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and 21 individuals who belonged to another church. 1,322 (or about 5.51% of the population) belonged to no church, are

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, and 933 individuals (or about 3.89% of the population) did not answer the question.

Education

In Porrentruy about 7,375 or (30.8%) of the population have completed non-mandatory

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, and 1,985 or (8.3%) have completed additional higher education (either

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or a ''

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''). Of the 1,985 who completed tertiary schooling, 62.7% were Swiss men, 25.5% were Swiss women, 7.2% were non-Swiss men and 4.6% were non-Swiss women. The Canton of Jura school system provides two year of non-obligatory

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, followed by six years of Primary school. 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 a three or four year optional upper Secondary school followed by some form of Tertiary school or they may enter an

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. During the 2009-10 school year, there were a total of 1,955 students attending 117 classes in Porrentruy. There were 24 kindergarten classes with a total of 416 students in the district.Effectifs de l'école enfantine 2009-2010
accessed 19 December 2011 The district had 92.5 primary classes and 1,539 students.
accessed 19 December 2011

References

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