Misery-Courtion (; ) is a municipality in the district of See in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland. It was formed on January 1, 1997 by the union of the villages of Misery, Courtion, Cormérod, and Cournillens. Geography Misery-Courtion has an area of . Of this area, or 75.4% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 17.4% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 7.2% is settled (buildings or roads), or 0.3% is either rivers or lakes. Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 3.6% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.4%. Out of the forested land, all of the forested land area is covered with heavy forests. Of the agricultural land, 53.3% is used for growing crops and 20.7% is pastures, while 1.4% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is flowing water. The municipality is located in the See/Lac district. Coat of arms The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Per bend Or and Gules overall a Quatrefoil Vert slipped. The four leaved clover stands for the four former municipalities of Cormerod, Cournillens, Courtion and Misery. Demographics Misery-Courtion has a population () of . , 13.7% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (2000–2010) the population has changed at a rate of 17.5%. Migration accounted for 10.8%, while births and deaths accounted for 4.5%. Most of the population () speaks French (1,064 or 86.4%) as their first language, German is the second most common (114 or 9.3%) and Portuguese is the third (14 or 1.1%). There are 6 people who speak Italian. , the population was 52.6% male and 47.4% female. The population was made up of 642 Swiss men (44.2% of the population) and 123 (8.5%) non-Swiss men. There were 601 Swiss women (41.4%) and 87 (6.0%) non-Swiss women. Of the population in the municipality, 470 or about 38.1% were born in Misery-Courtion and lived there in 2000. There were 409 or 33.2% who were born in the same canton, while 191 or 15.5% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 117 or 9.5% were born outside of Switzerland. , children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 27.5% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 58.9% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 13.6%. , there were 535 people who were single and never married