Murist (myʁist; Muri myˈʁi) is a former municipality in the district of Broye, in the canton of Fribourg, Switzerland.
Its territory was enlarged in 1981 with the formerly independent municipalities La Vounaise and Montborget, and in 1992 with Franex. On 1 January 2017 the former municipalities of Murist, Bussy, Estavayer-le-Lac, Morens, Rueyres-les-Prés, Vernay and Vuissens merged into the new municipality of Estavayer.
Murist is first mentioned in 1228 as Muris.
Murist hds an area, , of . Of this area, or 74.5% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 17.9% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 7.6% is settled (buildings or roads).
Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 2.9% and transportation infrastructure made up 4.0%. Out of the forested land, 15.7% of the total land area is heavily forested and 2.2% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 51.3% is used for growing crops and 21.5% is pastures, while 1.7% is used for orchards or vine crops.
The former municipality is located in the Broye district, in the Estavayer-le-Lac exclave.
The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Gules, a Tower Argent roofed issuant from Coupeaux Sable between two Mullets Or pierced.
Murist had a population () of 621. , 6.0% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (2000–2010) the population has changed at a rate of 31.9%. Migration accounted for 28.4%, while births and deaths accounted for 3.8%.
Most of the population () speaks French (396 or 91.9%) as their first language, German is the second most common (31 or 7.2%) and Italian is the third (3 or 0.7%).
the population was 50.2% male and 49.8% female. The population was made up of 254 Swiss men (45.7% of the population) and 25 (4.5%) non-Swiss men. There were 261 Swiss women (46.9%) and 16 (2.9%) non-Swiss women. Of the population in the municipality, 198 or about 45.9% were born in Murist and lived there in 2000. There were 98 or 22.7% who were born in the same canton, while 85 or 19.