In 1900 the municipality was created, when it separated from Martigny-Combe.
Geography
Trient has an area,, of. Of this area, 12.4% is used for agricultural purposes, while 31.2% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 0.8% is settled and 55.6% is unproductive land.
Coat of arms
The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Azure on a plane in front of mountains Vert a Chamois statant Argent.
Demographics
Trient has a population of. , 6.2% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years the population has changed at a rate of 3.5%. It has changed at a rate of 2.8% due to migration and at a rate of 1.4% due to births and deaths. Most of the population speaks French as their first language, German is the second most common and Portuguese is the third. , the population was 47.6% male and 52.4% female. The population was made up of 64 Swiss men and 6 non-Swiss men. There were 73 Swiss women and 4 non-Swiss women. Of the population in the municipality, 53 or about 40.8% were born in Trient and lived there in 2000. There were 45 or 34.6% who were born in the same canton, while 17 or 13.1% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 11 or 8.5% were born outside of Switzerland. , children and teenagers make up 28.5% of the population, while adults make up 54.6% and seniors make up 16.9%. , there were 53 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 67 married individuals, 6 widows or widowers and 4 individuals who are divorced. , there were 51 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.5 persons per household. There were 13 households that consist of only one person and 7 households with five or more people. , a total of 49 apartments were permanently occupied, while 66 apartments were seasonally occupied and 19 apartments were empty. The vacancy rate for the municipality,, was 1.48%. The historical population is given in the following chart: Colors= id:lightgrey value:gray id:darkgrey value:gray ImageSize = width:900 height:210 PlotArea = height:150 left:100 bottom:50 right:100 AlignBars = justify DateFormat = x.y Period = from:0 till:330 TimeAxis = orientation:vertical AlignBars = justify ScaleMajor = gridcolor:darkgrey increment:70 start:0 ScaleMinor = gridcolor:lightgrey increment:14 start:0 PlotData= color:yellowgreen width:50 mark: align:center bar:1900 from:start till:329 text:"329" bar:1910 from:start till:279 text:"279" bar:1920 from:start till:273 text:"273" bar:1930 from:start till:252 text:"252" bar:1941 from:start till:190 text:"190" bar:1950 from:start till:188 text:"188" bar:1960 from:start till:133 text:"133" bar:1970 from:start till:212 text:"212" bar:1980 from:start till:81 text:"81" bar:1990 from:start till:89 text:"89" bar:2000 from:start till:130 text:"130"
Politics
In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the FDP which received 39.31% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the CVP, the SP and the SVP. In the federal election, a total of 83 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 76.1%. In the 2009 Conseil d'Etat/Staatsrat election a total of 57 votes were cast, of which or about 0.0% were invalid. The voter participation was 62.6%, which is much more than the cantonal average of 54.67%. In the 2007 Swiss Council of States election a total of 72 votes were cast, of which 5 or about 6.9% were invalid. The voter participation was 77.4%, which is much more than the cantonal average of 59.88%.
Economy
, Trient had an unemployment rate of 5.3%. , there were 4 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 2 businesses involved in this sector. 8 people were employed in the secondary sector and there were 2 businesses in this sector. 25 people were employed in the tertiary sector, with 6 businesses in this sector. There were 55 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 43.6% of the workforce. the total number of full-time equivalent jobs was 32. The number of jobs in the primary sector was 2, all of which were in agriculture. The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 8 of which 1 was in manufacturing and 7 were in construction. The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 22. In the tertiary sector; 18 or 81.8% were in a hotel or restaurant, 2 or 9.1% were in education. , there were 12 workers who commuted into the municipality and 31 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 2.6 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering. Of the working population, 3.6% used public transportation to get to work, and 67.3% used a private car.
In Trient about 55 or of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education, and 7 or have completed additional higher education. Of the 7 who completed tertiary schooling, 85.7% were Swiss men, 14.3% were Swiss women. , there were 6 students from Trient who attended schools outside the municipality.
