Floirac, Gironde

Floirac (French pronunciation: [flwaʁak]; Occitan: Hloirac) is a commune in the Gironde department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France.

Floirac
Commune
Town hall
Coat of arms
Location of Floirac
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Coordinates: 44°50′15″N 0°31′29″W / 44.8375°N 0.5247°W / 44.8375; -0.5247
Country	France
Region	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Department	Gironde
Arrondissement	Bordeaux
Canton	Cenon
Intercommunality	Bordeaux Métropole
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Jean-Jacques Puyobrau^[1]
Area ^1	8.59 km^2 (3.32 sq mi)
Population  (2021)^[2]	17,749
• Density	2,100/km^2 (5,400/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	33167 /33270
Elevation	3–79 m (9.8–259.2 ft) (avg. 70 m or 230 ft)
^1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km^2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Population

Historical population

Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1793 1,200 —     1800 1,069 −1.64% 1806 1,053 −0.25% 1821 956 −0.64% 1831 965 +0.09% 1836 998 +0.67% 1841 1,186 +3.51% 1846 1,166 −0.34% 1851 1,312 +2.39% 1856 1,421 +1.61% 1861 1,537 +1.58% 1866 1,524 −0.17% 1872 1,640 +1.23% 1876 1,585 −0.85% 1881 1,842 +3.05% 1886 2,265 +4.22% 1891 2,311 +0.40% 1896 2,517 +1.72%	Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1901 2,642 +0.97% 1906 2,799 +1.16% 1911 3,152 +2.40% 1921 4,826 +4.35% 1926 6,474 +6.05% 1931 7,180 +2.09% 1936 7,024 −0.44% 1946 7,062 +0.05% 1954 7,621 +0.96% 1962 8,196 +0.91% 1968 8,241 +0.09% 1975 12,040 +5.57% 1982 14,477 +2.67% 1990 16,834 +1.90% 1999 16,157 −0.46% 2007 15,794 −0.28% 2012 16,508 +0.89% 2017 17,463 +1.13%
Source: EHESS^[3] and INSEE (1968-2017)^[4]

Twin towns

Floirac is twinned with:

• Diébougou, Burkina Faso
• Burlada, Spain, since 1985^[5]

See also

• Bordeaux Observatory
• Communes of the Gironde department

References

1. "Répertoire national des élus: les maires" (in French). data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 13 September 2022.
2. "Populations légales 2021". The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
3. Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Floirac, EHESS (in French).
4. Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
5. Annuaire des villes jumelées 2009-04-30 at the Wayback Machine

 

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