Dompierre (; , locally ) is a former municipality in the district of Broye of the Canton of Fribourg, Switzerland. On 1 January 2016, the former municipalities of Domdidier, Dompierre, Léchelles and Russy merged to form Belmont-Broye. History Dompierre is first mentioned in 1137 as Donperre. Geography Dompierre had an area, , of . Of this area, or 87.2% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 0.9% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 10.1% is settled (buildings or roads), or 1.3% is either rivers or lakes and or 0.2% is unproductive land. Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 4.5% and transportation infrastructure made up 4.0%. Out of the forested land, all of the forested land area is covered with heavy forests. Of the agricultural land, 75.5% is used for growing crops and 10.3% is pastures, while 1.3% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is flowing water. The former municipality is located in the Broye district, between Avenches and Payerne. Coat of arms The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Or, a Lion rampant Sable langued Gules holding a Key of the last. Demographics Dompierre had a population () of 994. , 18.2% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (2000–2010) the population has changed at a rate of 25.5%. Migration accounted for 20.8%, while births and deaths accounted for 2.2%. Most of the population () speaks French (556 or 94.7%) as their first language, German is the second most common (14 or 2.4%) and Albanian is the third (8 or 1.4%). There are 5 people who speak Italian. , the population was 52.6% male and 47.4% female. The population was made up of 311 Swiss men (42.3% of the population) and 76 (10.3%) non-Swiss men. There were 285 Swiss women (38.7%) and 64 (8.7%) non-Swiss women. Of the population in the municipality, 260 or about 44.3% were born in Dompierre and lived there in 2000. There were 143 or 24.4% who were born in the same canton, while 116 or 19.8% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 62 or 10.6% were born outside of Switzerland. The age distribution, , in Dompierre is; 92 children or 15.7% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 74 teenagers or 12.6% are between 10 and 19. Of the