L'Isle-d'Abeau

L'Isle-d'Abeau
The railway station
Coat of arms
L'Isle-d'Abeau
Location within Rhône-Alpes region L'Isle-d'Abeau
Coordinates:
Country	France
Region	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Department	Isère
Arrondissement	La Tour-du-Pin
Canton	L'Isle-d'Abeau
Intercommunality	Porte de l'Isère
Government
• Mayor (2014–2020)	Joël Grisollet
Area1	9.11 km2 (3.52 sq mi)
Population (2011)2	15,734
• Density	1,700/km2 (4,500/sq mi)
• Urban	40,818
INSEE/Postal code	38193 / 38080
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.

L'Isle-d'Abeau is a commune in the department of Isère in southeastern France, thirty kilometres away from Lyon.

Town

This little city was developed with the creation of the new town. It has 8 primary schools (1 is private), two middle schools, one high school and 2 IUT dedicated to informatic and multimedia jobs.

New town

The municipality gave its name to a new town, whose creation was decided in 1970 to canalize the demographic growth of the Lyon agglomeration. It is organized in a New Agglomeration Union, together with Four, Saint-Quentin-Fallavier, Vaulx-Milieu and Villefontaine. Since January 1st, 2007, the Union became the Communauté d'agglomération Porte de l'Isère (CAPI), with over 93,000 inhabitants in 21 municipalities.

Population

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±%
1968	725	—
1975	897	+23.7%
1982	1,290	+43.8%
1990	5,554	+330.5%
1999	12,034	+116.7%
2006	15,397	+27.9%
2011	15,734	+2.2%

International relations

L'Isle-d'Abeau is twinned with:

• San Vicente del Raspeig (Alicante, Spain).

See also

• Communes of the Isère department

References

• INSEE statistics

External links

• [www.mairie-ida.fr Official site]