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Saint Imier (sɛ̃. t‿imje) is a municipality in the Jura bernois administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. It is located in the French speaking Bernese Jura (Jura Bernois). The Observatoire Astronomique de Mont Soleil is located above the village.

Saint Imier is first mentioned in 884 as cella de sancti Himerii. The municipality was formerly known by its German name St. Immer, however, that name is no longer used. On 19 July 2023, hundreds of anarchists began arriving in Saint Imier to participate in an international anarchist gathering, in celebration of the 150th anniversary of the Saint Imier Congress. The event included lectures, workshops, concerts, film screenings, theatre plays, exhibitions and a book fair. By the second day of the event, thousands of people had arrived in the town, causing logistical issues for the self managed space. The event also caused some safety problems, as its campsite was located next to train tracks that campers often crossed over in order to get to the event location, despite attempts by the event organisers to stop them. In order to guarantee safety, the Swiss Federal Railways halted all rail traffic between Saint Imier and La Chaux de Fonds over the weekend, organising replacement bus services in order to maintain the public transit network. The event would end up counting 5,000 attendees, mostly people in their early twenties, who were reportedly warmly welcomed by the town's population. Saint Imier mayor Corentin Jeanneret reported that the event went largely smoothly, with the exception of a few cases of graffiti.

Saint Imier has an area of Of this area, 49% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 40% is forested. Of the rest, 9.3% of the total is buildings or roads, and 0.7%of the total is unproductive. Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 5.8% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.2%. Out of the forested land, 34% of the total land area is heavily forested and 6% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 1.7% is used for growing crops and 20% is pastures and 27% is used for alpine pastures.

Saint Imier has a population of as of 2010, 23.9% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (2000 2010) the population has changed at a rate of 4.2%. Migration accounted for 6.3%, while births and deaths accounted for 2.9%. Most of the population (as of 2000) speaks French (4,049 or 84.2%) as their first language, German is the second most common (315 or 6.6%) and Italian is the third (183 or 3.8%). There are 2 people who speak Romansh. as of 2000, there were 916 households that consist of only one person and 86 households with five or more people. In 2000, a total of 2,190 apartments (78.9% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 362 apartments (13.0%) were seasonally occupied and 223 apartments (8.0%) were empty. as of 2010, the construction rate of new housing units was 1.3 new units per 1000 residents.

The Collégiale and the Longines Watch factory are listed as Swiss heritage site of national significance. The entire urban village of Saint Imier is part of the Inventory of Swiss Heritage Sites.

In the 2011 federal election the most popular party was the Social Democratic Party (SP) which received 26.4% of the vote. The next two most popular parties were the Swiss People's Party (SVP) (25.4%), and the FDP. The Liberals (18.2%). In the federal election, a total of 929 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 31.6%.

Saint Imier is the hometown of the Longines watchmaking company. The Breitling watchmaking company was founded in Saint Imier, but moved to Grenchen, Canton of Solothurn. as of 2011, Saint Imier had an unemployment rate of 3.59%. as of 2008, there were a total of 2,483 people employed in the municipality. Of these, there were 61 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 23 businesses involved in this sector. 1,102 people were employed in the secondary sector and there were 57 businesses in this sector. 1,320 people were employed in the tertiary sector, with 164 businesses in this sector. In 2000, there were 1,624 workers who commuted into the municipality and 802 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net importer of workers, with about 2.0 workers entering the municipality for every one leaving. About 11.3% of the workforce coming into Saint Imier are coming from outside Switzerland. Of the working population, 10.2% used public transportation to get to work, and 53.3% used a private car. During the 2010 11 school year, there were a total of 695 students attending classes in Saint Imier. There were 5 kindergarten classes with a total of 100 students in the municipality. Of the kindergarten students, 27.0% were permanent or temporary residents of Switzerland (not citizens) and 33.0% have a different mother language than the classroom language. The municipality had 21 primary classes and 349 students. Of the primary students, 31.8% were permanent or temporary residents of Switzerland (not citizens) and 19.2% have a different mother language than the classroom language. During the same year, there were 13 lower secondary classes with a total of 246 students. There were 19.1% who were permanent or temporary residents of Switzerland (not citizens) and 15.9% have a different mother language than the classroom language. as of 2000, there were 396 students in Saint Imier who came from another municipality, while 126 residents attended schools outside the municipality.

The municipality has a railway station, The station is located on the Biel/Bienne–La Chaux de Fonds line and has half hourly service to and
Mont Soleil can be reached with Funiculaire Saint Imier – Mont Soleil.

HC Sainti Bats plays in the Première Ligue, the fourth tier of Swiss hockey. Their home arena is the 3,000 seat Erguël Arena.