Les Essards, Charente

Les Essards
Town hall
Les Essards
Location within Poitou-Charentes region Les Essards
Coordinates:
Country	France
Region	Aquitaine-Limousin-Poitou-Charentes
Department	Charente
Arrondissement	Angoulême
Canton	Aubeterre-sur-Dronne
Intercommunality	Pays d'Aubeterre
Government
• Mayor (2008–2014)	Jean-Michel Droillard
Area1	8.98 km2 (3.47 sq mi)
Population (2008)2	211
• Density	23/km2 (61/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	16130 / 16210
Elevation	30–145 m (98–476 ft) (avg. 124 m or 407 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.

Les Essards is a commune in the Charente department in southwestern France.

Population

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±%
1793	849	—
1800	795	−6.4%
1806	707	−11.1%
1821	761	+7.6%
1831	792	+4.1%
1841	774	−2.3%
1846	770	−0.5%
1851	728	−5.5%
1856	707	−2.9%
1861	658	−6.9%
1866	622	−5.5%
1872	585	−5.9%
1876	592	+1.2%
1881	565	−4.6%
1886	550	−2.7%
1891	508	−7.6%
1896	478	−5.9%
1901	452	−5.4%
1906	452	+0.0%
1911	405	−10.4%
1921	354	−12.6%
1926	329	−7.1%
1931	335	+1.8%
1936	319	−4.8%
1946	314	−1.6%
1954	304	−3.2%
1962	277	−8.9%
1968	241	−13.0%
1975	233	−3.3%
1982	203	−12.9%
1990	193	−4.9%
1999	196	+1.6%
2008	211	+7.7%

See also

• Communes of the Charente department

References

• INSEE