Asnières-la-Giraud

Asnières-la-Giraud
Asnières-la-Giraud
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	Asnières-la-Giraud
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Country	France
Region	Aquitaine-Limousin-Poitou-Charentes
Department	Charente-Maritime
Arrondissement	Saint-Jean-d'Angély
Canton	Saint-Jean-d'Angély
Intercommunality	Saint-Jean-d'Angély
Government
• Mayor (2014–2020)	Christian Ferru
Area1	18.64 km2 (7.20 sq mi)
Population (2010)2	922
• Density	49/km2 (130/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	17022 / 17400
Elevation	22–82 m (72–269 ft); (avg. 49 m or 161 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.

Asnières-la-Giraud is a French commune in the Charente-Maritime department in the Poitou-Charentes region of south-western France.

The inhabitants of the commune are known as Asnierois or Asnieroises.^[1]

1 Geography
- 1.1 Neighbouring communes and villages^[2]
2 Administration
- 2.1 Budget and Taxation
3 Demography
- 3.1 Distribution of Age Groups
4 Economy
5 Culture and heritage
- 5.1 Civil heritage
- 5.2 Religious heritage
6 Notable people linked to the commune
7 See also
- 7.1 External links
8 Notes and references
- 8.1 Notes
- 8.2 References

Geography

Asnières-la-Giraud is located some 38 km east of Rochefort and 7 km south of Saint-Jean-d'Angély. Access to the commune is by the D150 road from Saint-Jean-d'Angély in the north which passes through the west of the commune and the village and continues to Saint-Hilaire-de-Villefranche. The D120 road from Saint-Jean-d'Angély passes through the east of the commune and continues to Sainte-Même. The D217 road connects the D120 and the D150 in the commune and continues west to Mazeray. Apart from the village there are the hamlets of La Touzetterie on the north-eastern border, Moulin de la Laigne, La Laigne, Le Plonget, La Giraud, La Rue d'Asnières, Le Puits d'Asnières, Champmiaud, and La Tranche in the south. There are some patches of forest but most of the commune is farmland.^[2]

The Loubat river flows south through the commune west of the D150 and through the village before continuing south.^[2]

Geologically it is a limestone plateau of the Tithonian period (formerly called Portlandian)

Neighbouring communes and villages^[2]

Administration

List of Successive Mayors^[3]

From	To	Name	Party	Position
2001	2014	Guy Madé		Retired
2014	2020	Christian Ferru

(Not all data is known)

Budget and Taxation

The Taxation rates are: 6.28% for housing tax, 11.80% for developed land, 37% for undeveloped land, and 8% business tax. As the community of communes also levies all four taxes: respectively 2.46%, 5.50%, 11.91%, and 3.82%, this gives a total, before the department and the region, of: 8.74% for housing tax, 17.30% for developed land, 48.91% for undeveloped land, and 11.82% business tax (2007 figures).

Demography

In 2010 the commune had 922 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
1,093	1,087	1,173	1,173	1,274	1,333	1,405	1,338	1,356

1856	1861	1866	1872	1876	1881	1886	1891	1896
1,335	1,389	1,418	1,379	1,327	1,281	1,152	1,130	1,021

1901	1906	1911	1921	1926	1931	1936	1946	1954
1,002	967	886	879	891	863	821	768	732

1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006	2010	-
808	767	704	748	817	875	902	922	-

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

Population of Asnières-la-Giraud

Distribution of Age Groups

The population of the town is relatively old. The ratio of persons above the age of 60 years (23.9%) is higher than the national average (21.6%) and the departmental average (28.1%). Unlike national and departmental allocations, the male population of the town is greater than the female population (51.1% against 48.4% nationally and 48.2% at the departmental level).

Percentage Distribution of Age Groups in Asnières-la-Giraud and Charente-Maritime Department in 2010

	Asnières	Asnières	Charente-M	Charente-M
Age Range	Men	Women	Men	Women
0 to 14 Years	16.8	17.0	17.2	15.1
15 to 29 Years	14.5	13.7	16.4	14.3
30 to 44 Years	19.6	19.2	18.4	17.7
45 to 59 Years	23.8	24.6	20.8	20.6
60 to 74 Years	17.0	15.5	17.6	18.2
75 to 89 Years	7.7	8.8	9.1	12.5
90 Years+	0.6	1.1	0.6	1.6

Sources:

Economy

Asnières-la-Giraud has always been an agricultural and viticultural; commune. Nevertheless, there are many trades in the commune: a garage, a mechanically construction business, an Emmaus warehouse, and activities linked to tourism with a hotel, a rural cottage, and a Youth Hostel called Chantageasse. The vineyards are in the Appellation d'origine contrôlée (AOC) region of Cognac: the Fins Bois cru.

Culture and heritage

The well

Civil heritage

The Fontaines d'Asnières milk factory^[4] at 17 Rue de la Laiterie is registered as a historical monument.
An old well

The Church bell tower

Religious heritage

The Church of Saint Medard

Notable people linked to the commune

Pierre Roy de Loulay, a French politician born on 26 August 1818 at Asnières-la-Giraud.

Notes and references

Notes

↑ 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

↑ Inhabitants of Asnières-la-Giraud (French)
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 Google Maps
↑ List of Mayors of France (French)
↑ Ministry of Culture, Mérimée IA17000323 Fontaines d'Asnières milk factory (French)

[4] 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.

[1] Inhabitants of Asnières-la-Giraud (French)

[Google-2] 2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 Google Maps

[3] List of Mayors of France (French)

[5] Ministry of Culture, Mérimée IA17000323 Fontaines d'Asnières milk factory (French)

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