Hiersac

Hiersac
Town hall
Hiersac
Location within Poitou-Charentes region Hiersac
Coordinates:
Country	France
Region	Aquitaine-Limousin-Poitou-Charentes
Department	Charente
Arrondissement	Angoulême
Canton	Hiersac
Intercommunality	Région de Châteauneuf
Government
• Mayor (2008–2014)	Patricia Duclos
Area1	7.36 km2 (2.84 sq mi)
Population (2008)2	1,082
• Density	150/km2 (380/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	16163 / 16290
Elevation	43–121 m (141–397 ft) (avg. 63 m or 207 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.

Hiersac is a commune in the Charente department in southwestern France.

Population

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±%
1793	630	—
1800	593	−5.9%
1806	575	−3.0%
1821	622	+8.2%
1831	621	−0.2%
1841	637	+2.6%
1846	673	+5.7%
1851	770	+14.4%
1856	772	+0.3%
1861	835	+8.2%
1866	865	+3.6%
1872	833	−3.7%
1876	824	−1.1%
1881	780	−5.3%
1886	677	−13.2%
1891	696	+2.8%
1896	669	−3.9%
1901	596	−10.9%
1906	640	+7.4%
1911	601	−6.1%
1921	555	−7.7%
1926	537	−3.2%
1931	537	+0.0%
1936	528	−1.7%
1946	626	+18.6%
1954	619	−1.1%
1962	686	+10.8%
1968	692	+0.9%
1975	798	+15.3%
1982	850	+6.5%
1990	966	+13.6%
1999	1,006	+4.1%
2008	1,082	+7.6%

Personalities

• Jean-André Valletaux, French general in the French Revolutionary Wars and the Peninsular War

See also

• Communes of the Charente department

References

• INSEE