The Juraseean demographic perspectives are not very happy. If Val-de-Ruz is preparing to welcome 27% additional students in its schools, “a COVID effect” understood CS-Pop MP Rémy Médi, the Jura is expecting a small drop in workforce at the next school year. And rebelote in August 2026. In any case no COVIVE effect with us, so no risk of overloading the classes, as in Neuchâtel, replied Minister Martial Courtet during oral issues.
What worries PS deputy Joël Burkhalter is the projections of the Federal Statistics Office (OFS) for the Jura by 2055. The Swiss population will grow by 17%, especially in Zurich and Lake Geneva agglomerations. From 2035, it will be exclusively due to migration, therefore closely linked to the country’s economic situation.
The Jura should decrease
Lucerne will increase its population by a third, Vaud and Geneva by a quarter. The growth expected in the canton of Bern for the next 30 years is 2%, 0.4% in Neuchâtel. The Jura should lose 0.1% of its population: 80 inhabitants.
The Minister Martial Courtet establishes the usual dosage of a canton sick with the lack of inhabitants: to increase attractiveness, enhance the living environment, attract residents who telework, diversify businesses, etc. And to hope that the assets of mobility and housing will make it possible to glean part of this Swiss growth.
No Jura voice
The statistical model which concludes at this stagnation in the Jura is based on past figures. Depending on whether one takes 2024 or 2025 as a reference point, the population will increase by 0.3% or decrease by 0.1%, explains the OFS. And unlike the other Swiss cantons, the Jura no longer has a statistical office and he did not delegate anyone to assert his own cantonal projections.
As in other cantons, these could integrate other elements, which could also have influenced the projections of the OFS.
Feminicide, covid, rht
During the same oral questions, Minister Stéphane Theurillat was learned that 115 Jura companies were for the benefit of a reduction in the work schedule (RHT), and that the canton had to destroy around 10,000 doses of COVID.
The feminicide of Épagny allows the Minister Courtet to announce that the Jura has notably decided to equip himself with an apartment and also rent an a room in an institution. Enough to shelter potential victims of assaults.
