Assieu

Assieu
Coat of arms
Assieu
Location within Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region  Assieu
Coordinates: 45°24′29″N 4°52′07″E / 45.4081°N 4.8686°ECoordinates: 45°24′29″N 4°52′07″E / 45.4081°N 4.8686°E
Country	France
Region	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Department	Isère
Arrondissement	Vienne
Canton	Roussillon
Intercommunality	Pays Roussillonnais
Government
• Mayor (2014–2020)	Jean-Michel Ségui
Area^1	12.34 km^2 (4.76 sq mi)
Population (2010)^2	1,316
• Density	110/km^2 (280/sq mi)
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
INSEE/Postal code	38017 / 38150
Elevation	220–407 m (722–1,335 ft)
^1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. ^2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Assieu is a French commune in the Isère department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of south-eastern France.

The inhabitants of the commune are known as Assieutois or Assieutoises.^[1]

Geography

Assieu is located some 30 km south by south-east of Givors and 8 km east by north-east of Saint-Maurice-l'Exil. Access to the commune is by the D131 road from the D134 in the south passing north then east in the commune to the town then north and continuing north-west to Route nationale 7. Apart from the town there is the village of La Charinaz in the east and Les Bruyeres in the west. The commune has large forests in the east as well as one in the west with significant residential areas and the rest of the land farmland.^[2]

The Vareze river forms the northern border and gathers many tributaries rising in the commune as it flows west to join the Rhône at Saint-Alban-du-Rhône.^[2]

Neighbouring communes and villages^[2]

Heraldry

Blazon: Azure, a fox rampant of Or, in chief the same charged with three dolphins of Azure, crested, finned, and eyebrowed in Gules.

Administration

The Town Hall

List of Successive Mayors^[3]

From	To	Name	Party	Position
2001	2014	Luc Monin
2014	2020	Jean-Michel Ségui

(Not all data is known)

Demography

In 2010 the commune had 1,316 inhabitants. The evolution of the number of inhabitants is known from the population censuses conducted in the commune since 1793. From the 21st century, a census of communes with fewer than 10,000 inhabitants is held every five years, unlike larger towns that have a sample survey every year.^{[Note 1]}

Population Change (See database)

1793	1800	1806	1821	1831	1836	1841	1846	1851
621	686	562	423	556	725	707	731	736

1856	1861	1866	1872	1876	1881	1886	1891	1896
713	637	659	700	693	669	655	620	587

1901	1906	1911	1921	1926	1931	1936	1946	1954
559	527	537	522	507	503	505	455	552

1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006	2010	-
521	514	567	612	768	889	1,123	1,316	-

Sources : Ldh/EHESS/Cassini until 1962, INSEE database from 1968 (population without double counting and municipal population from 2006)

Assieu War Memorial

A street in Assieu

Assieu School

Sites and monuments

Assieu Church

• Chateau Juveneton
• Chateau Richoux
• Church from the 19th century

See also

• Communes of the Isère department

External links

• Assieu on the old IGN website (French)
• Assieu on Lion1906
• Assieu on Google Maps
• Assieu on Géoportail, National Geographic Institute (IGN) website (French)
• Aßien on the 1750 Cassini Map
• Assieu on the INSEE website (French)
• INSEE (French)

Notes and references

Notes

1. At the beginning of the 21st century, the methods of identification have been modified by Law No. 2002-276 of 27 February 2002, the so-called "law of local democracy" and in particular Title V "census operations" allows, after a transitional period running from 2004 to 2008, the annual publication of the legal population of the different French administrative districts. For communes with a population greater than 10,000 inhabitants, a sample survey is conducted annually, the entire territory of these communes is taken into account at the end of the period of five years. The first "legal population" after 1999 under this new law came into force on 1 January 2009 and was based on the census of 2006.

References

1. Inhabitants of Isère (French)
2. Google Maps
3. List of Mayors of France (French)