Carbonne

Carbonne
Carbonne
	Town hall
	Carbonne
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Country	France
Region	Languedoc-Roussillon-Midi-Pyrénées
Department	Haute-Garonne
Arrondissement	Muret
Canton	Carbonne
Intercommunality	Volvestre
Government
• Mayor (2008–2014)	Guy Hellé
Area1	26.59 km2 (10.27 sq mi)
Population (2008)2	4,952
• Density	190/km2 (480/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	31107 / 31390
Elevation	183–332 m (600–1,089 ft); (avg. 206 m or 676 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.

Carbonne (Occitan: Carbona) is a commune in the Haute-Garonne department in southwestern France.

Geography

The A64 autoroute passes near the village, and there is a train station of the railway Toulouse - Bayonne.

It is situated at the confluence of the river Arize into the Garonne. There is a hydro-electrical dam located at the Garonne.

Population

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±%
1793	1,643	—
1800	964	−41.3%
1806	1,835	+90.4%
1821	1,863	+1.5%
1831	1,981	+6.3%
1836	2,235	+12.8%
1841	2,293	+2.6%
1846	2,468	+7.6%
1851	2,462	−0.2%
1856	2,444	−0.7%
1861	2,468	+1.0%
1866	2,484	+0.6%
1872	2,505	+0.8%
1876	2,577	+2.9%
1881	2,520	−2.2%
1886	2,548	+1.1%
1891	2,456	−3.6%
1896	2,303	−6.2%
1901	2,387	+3.6%
1906	2,359	−1.2%
1911	2,393	+1.4%
1921	2,154	−10.0%
1926	2,350	+9.1%
1931	2,250	−4.3%
1936	2,277	+1.2%
1946	2,323	+2.0%
1954	2,473	+6.5%
1962	2,625	+6.1%
1968	3,222	+22.7%
1975	3,218	−0.1%
1982	3,596	+11.7%
1990	3,795	+5.5%
1999	3,692	−2.7%
2008	4,952	+34.1%

Economy

Agriculture based on the culture of cereals (maize, wheat, ...) still has an important place but tends to diminish in favour of residential zones, due to the proximity of the agglomeration of Toulouse.