Mettembert

Mettembert is a municipality in the district of Delémont in the canton of Jura in Switzerland. Mettembert is first mentioned in 1170 as Mettenbere. In 1208 it was mentioned as Mettenberg. The municipality was formerly known by its German name Mittemberg, however, that name is no longer used. Until 1 January 1984 it was officially known as Mettemberg. Mettembert has an area of . Of this area, or 40.1% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 53.4% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 7.8% is settled (buildings or roads) and or 0.4% is unproductive land. Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 3.0% and transportation infrastructure made up 4.3%. Out of the forested land, 51.7% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.7% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 17.2% is used for growing crops and 10.8% is pastures and 11.6% is used for alpine pastures. The municipality is located in the Delemont district, on the exposed side of a small valley north-west of Delemont. The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Or, a Billy Goat Sable attired, langued and hoofed Gules. Mettembert has a population () of . , 9.4% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (2000–2010) the population has changed at a rate of -4.7%. Migration accounted for 4.7%, while births and deaths accounted for 0.8%. Most of the population () speaks French (99 or 85.3%) as their first language, German is the second most common (14 or 12.1%) and Italian is the third (2 or 1.7%). the population was 47.9% male and 52.1% female. The population was made up of 49 Swiss men (40.5% of the population) and 9 (7.4%) non-Swiss men. There were 60 Swiss women (49.6%) and 3 (2.5%) non-Swiss women. Of the population in the municipality, 45 or about 38.8% were born in Mettembert and lived there in 2000. There were 31 or 26.7% who were born in the same canton, while 24 or 20.7% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 15 or 12.9% were born outside of Switzerland.