Brèches

Brèches
Brèches
Location within Centre region Brèches
Coordinates:
Country	France
Region	Centre-Val de Loire
Department	Indre-et-Loire
Arrondissement	Tours
Canton	Château-la-Vallière
Government
• Mayor (2008–2014)	Maurice Houdin
Area1	11.63 km2 (4.49 sq mi)
Population (2009)2	284
• Density	24/km2 (63/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	37037 / 37330
Elevation	74–133 m (243–436 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.

Brèches is a commune in the Indre-et-Loire department in central France.

Population

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±%
1793	374	—
1800	333	−11.0%
1806	564	+69.4%
1821	405	−28.2%
1831	411	+1.5%
1836	416	+1.2%
1841	427	+2.6%
1846	438	+2.6%
1851	436	−0.5%
1856	430	−1.4%
1861	467	+8.6%
1866	436	−6.6%
1872	432	−0.9%
1876	411	−4.9%
1881	431	+4.9%
1886	442	+2.6%
1891	435	−1.6%
1896	423	−2.8%
1901	401	−5.2%
1906	407	+1.5%
1911	383	−5.9%
1921	368	−3.9%
1926	337	−8.4%
1931	323	−4.2%
1936	322	−0.3%
1946	289	−10.2%
1954	322	+11.4%
1962	314	−2.5%
1968	300	−4.5%
1975	236	−21.3%
1982	250	+5.9%
1990	241	−3.6%
1999	255	+5.8%
2006	279	+9.4%
2009	284	+1.8%

See also

• Communes of the Indre-et-Loire department

References

• INSEE commune file