Soulce

Soulce (suls) is a former municipality in the district of Delémont in the canton of Jura in Switzerland. On 1 January 2013 the former municipalities of Bassecourt, Courfaivre, Glovelier, Soulce and Undervelier merged to form the new municipality of Haute-Sorne. Soulce is first mentioned in 1148 as Sulza. The municipality was formerly known by its German name Sulz, however, that name is no longer used. Soulce had an area of . Of this area, or 26.9% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 70.7% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 1.9% is settled (buildings or roads), or 0.1% is either rivers or lakes and or 0.3% is unproductive land. Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 1.1% and transportation infrastructure made up 0.7%. Out of the forested land, 67.6% of the total land area is heavily forested and 3.1% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 5.8% is used for growing crops and 10.3% is pastures and 10.7% is used for alpine pastures. All the water in the municipality is flowing water. The former municipality is located in the Delemont district, in a small valley east of Undervelier. The village grew up along a small stream in the valley. The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Or, on Coupeaux Vert a Greyhound Gules passant. Soulce had a population () of 233. , 3.6% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (2000–2010) the population has changed at a rate of 5.3%. Migration accounted for 3.7%, while births and deaths accounted for 4.9%. Most of the population () speaks French (210 or 89.4%) as their first language, German is the second most common (22 or 9.4%) and Italian is the third (1 or 0.4%). the population was 48.8% male and 51.2% female. The population was made up of 114 Swiss men (44.5% of the population) and 11 (4.3%) non-Swiss men. There were 126 Swiss women (49.2%) and 5 (2.0%) non-Swiss women. Of the population in the municipality, 99 or about 42.1% were born in Soulce and lived there in 2000. There were 70 or 29.