Bruille-Saint-Amand

Bruille-Saint-Amand
Coat of arms
Bruille-Saint-Amand
Location within Nord-Pas-de-Calais region Bruille-Saint-Amand
Coordinates:
Country	France
Region	Nord-Pas-de-Calais-Picardy
Department	Nord
Arrondissement	Valenciennes
Canton	Saint-Amand-les-Eaux-Rive droite
Intercommunality	Porte du Hainaut
Government
• Mayor (2008–2014)	André Bonnaire
Area1	7.88 km2 (3.04 sq mi)
Population (2009)2	1,575
• Density	200/km2 (520/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	59114 / 59199
Elevation	16–38 m (52–125 ft) (avg. 40 m or 130 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.

Bruille-Saint-Amand is a commune in the Nord department in northern France.

Population

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±%
1800	1,210	—
1806	1,391	+15.0%
1821	1,780	+28.0%
1831	1,919	+7.8%
1836	2,156	+12.4%
1841	2,695	+25.0%
1846	2,388	−11.4%
1851	2,240	−6.2%
1856	2,088	−6.8%
1861	2,029	−2.8%
1866	1,827	−10.0%
1872	1,774	−2.9%
1876	1,806	+1.8%
1881	1,810	+0.2%
1886	1,708	−5.6%
1891	1,700	−0.5%
1896	1,620	−4.7%
1901	1,609	−0.7%
1906	1,607	−0.1%
1911	1,587	−1.2%
1921	1,505	−5.2%
1926	1,508	+0.2%
1931	1,505	−0.2%
1936	1,519	+0.9%
1946	1,254	−17.4%
1954	1,390	+10.8%
1962	1,403	+0.9%
1968	1,442	+2.8%
1975	1,381	−4.2%
1982	1,391	+0.7%
1990	1,473	+5.9%
1999	1,470	−0.2%
2006	1,458	−0.8%
2009	1,575	+8.0%

Photos

Bruille Saint Amand, war memorial and church

Bruille Sint Amand, view to a street: Rue Pasteur-Rue Henri Durre

Heraldry

The arms of Bruille-Saint-Amand are blazoned : Or, a cross gules. (Bruille-Saint-Amand, Flines-lès-Mortagne, Mortagne-du-Nord and Nivelle use the same arms.)

See also

• Communes of the Nord department

References

• INSEE commune file