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Chêne Bourg is a municipality in the canton of Geneva, Switzerland.

Chêne Bourg is first mentioned in 1270 as Quercus.

Chêne Bourg has an area, as of 2009, of Of this area, or 8.6% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 3.1% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 87.5% is settled (buildings or roads). Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 3.1% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 59.4% and transportation infrastructure made up 15.6%. while parks, green belts and sports fields made up 8.6%. Out of the forested land, 1.6% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.6% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 7.0% is used for growing crops.

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Chêne Bourg has a population of as of 2008, 34.6% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1999–2009 ) the population has changed at a rate of 15.4%. It has changed at a rate of 9.6% due to migration and at a rate of 5.9% due to births and deaths. Most of the population (as of 2000) speaks French (5,781 or 80.1%), with Portuguese being second most common (348 or 4.8%) and Italian being third (262 or 3.6%). There are 6 people who speak Romansh. Of the population in the municipality 1,101 or about 15.2% were born in Chêne Bourg and lived there in 2000. There were 1,836 or 25.4% who were born in the same canton, while 1,080 or 15.0% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 2,819 or 39.0% were born outside of Switzerland. as of 2000, there were 3,248 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.1 persons per household. In 2000 there were 3,524 apartments in the municipality. The most common apartment size was 3 rooms of which there were 1,097. There were 407 single room apartments and 447 apartments with five or more rooms. Of these apartments, a total of 3,191 apartments (90.6% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 266 apartments (7.5%) were seasonally occupied and 67 apartments (1.9%) were empty.

Louis Favre was born in Chêne Bourg. The pianist Dinu Lipatti is buried in the cemetery of Chêne Bourg next to his wife Madeleine.

In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SP which received 20.11% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SVP (18.73%), the Green Party (17.17%) and the LPS Party (16.62%). In the federal election, a total of 1,807 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 45.2%. In the 2009 Grand Conseil election, there were a total of 4,065 registered voters of which 1,525 (37.5%) voted. The most popular party in the municipality for this election was the MCG with 17.0% of the ballots. In the canton wide election they received the third highest proportion of votes. The second most popular party was the Les Verts (with 15.6%), they were also second in the canton wide election, while the third most popular party was the Les Socialistes (with 13.8%), they were fourth in the canton wide election. For the 2009 Conseil d'Etat election, there were a total of 4,080 registered voters of which 1,788 (43.8%) voted. as of 2010, Chêne Bourg had an unemployment rate of 7.4%. as of 2008, there were 2 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 1 business involved in this sector. 1,032 people were employed in the secondary sector and there were 83 businesses in this sector. 1,776 people were employed in the tertiary sector, with 320 businesses in this sector. In 2000, there were 3,332 workers who commuted into the municipality and 2,990 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net importer of workers, with about 1.1 workers entering the municipality for every one leaving. About 21.2% of the workforce coming into Chêne Bourg are coming from outside Switzerland, while 0.0% of the locals commute out of Switzerland for work. Of the working population, 36% used public transportation to get to work, and 41.3% used a private car. During that school year, there were 131 children who were in a pre kindergarten class. The canton's school system provides two years of non mandatory kindergarten and requires students to attend six years of primary school, with some of the children attending smaller, specialized classes. In Chêne Bourg there were 299 students in kindergarten or primary school and 34 students were in the special, smaller classes. The secondary school program consists of three lower, obligatory years of schooling, followed by three to five years of optional, advanced schools. There were 299 lower secondary students who attended school in Chêne Bourg. There were 382 upper secondary students from the municipality along with 74 students who were in a professional, non university track program. An additional 95 students attended a private school. as of 2000, there were 76 students in Chêne Bourg who came from another municipality, while 709 residents attended schools outside the municipality.

The municipality has a railway station, , on the CEVA orbital railway. The station has frequent service from the Léman Express.