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Mettray

Coordinates: 47°27′10″N 0°38′57″E / 47.4528°N 0.6492°E / 47.4528; 0.6492
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Mettray
Coat of arms of Mettray
Location of Mettray
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Mettray is located in France
Mettray
Mettray
Mettray is located in Centre-Val de Loire
Mettray
Mettray
Coordinates: 47°27′10″N 0°38′57″E / 47.4528°N 0.6492°E / 47.4528; 0.6492
CountryFrance
RegionCentre-Val de Loire
DepartmentIndre-et-Loire
ArrondissementTours
CantonVouvray
IntercommunalityTours Métropole Val de Loire
Government
 • Mayor (2020–2026) Philippe Clémot[1]
Area
1
10.34 km2 (3.99 sq mi)
Population
 (2021)[2]
2,062
 • Density200/km2 (520/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code
37152 /37390
Elevation57–100 m (187–328 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Mettray (French pronunciation: [mɛtʁɛ] ) is a commune in the Indre-et-Loire department in central France. The Mettray Penal Colony was opened there in 1839.

Population

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The inhabitants are called Mettrayens in French. The commune La Membrolle-sur-Choisille was created in 1873 from part of Mettray.[3]

Historical population
YearPop.±% p.a.
1793 1,017—    
1800 1,089+0.98%
1806 1,247+2.28%
1821 846−2.55%
1831 1,212+3.66%
1836 1,294+1.32%
1841 1,460+2.44%
1846 1,960+6.07%
1851 2,090+1.29%
1856 2,176+0.81%
1861 2,311+1.21%
1866 2,517+1.72%
1872 2,344−1.18%
1876 1,615−8.89%
1881 1,413−2.64%
1886 1,416+0.04%
1891 1,461+0.63%
1896 1,399−0.86%
YearPop.±% p.a.
1901 1,324−1.10%
1906 1,196−2.01%
1911 1,243+0.77%
1921 1,110−1.13%
1926 1,163+0.94%
1931 1,205+0.71%
1936 1,280+1.21%
1946 737−5.37%
1954 983+3.67%
1962 1,036+0.66%
1968 1,021−0.24%
1975 1,083+0.85%
1982 1,368+3.39%
1990 1,916+4.30%
1999 2,029+0.64%
2007 1,951−0.49%
2012 2,088+1.37%
2017 2,068−0.19%
Source: EHESS[3] and INSEE (1968-2017)[4]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 2 December 2020.
  2. ^ "Populations légales 2021" (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
  3. ^ a b Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Mettray, EHESS (in French).
  4. ^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE