Arabaux

Arabaux

Arabaux Community Hall
Arabaux

Coordinates: 42°59′09″N 1°38′37″E / 42.9858°N 1.6436°E / 42.9858; 1.6436Coordinates: 42°59′09″N 1°38′37″E / 42.9858°N 1.6436°E / 42.9858; 1.6436
Country France
Region Occitanie
Department Ariège
Arrondissement Foix
Canton Foix-Rural
Intercommunality Pays de Foix
Government
 • Mayor (2008–2020) Michel Rouch
Area1 4.59 km2 (1.77 sq mi)
Population (2009)2 63
 • Density 14/km2 (36/sq mi)
Time zone CET (UTC+1)
 • Summer (DST) CEST (UTC+2)
INSEE/Postal code 09013 / 09000
Elevation 395–826 m (1,296–2,710 ft)
(avg. 500 m or 1,600 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.

Arabaux is a French commune in the Ariège department in the Occitanie region of southwestern France.

The inhabitants of the commune are known as Arabausois or Arabausoises[1]

Geography

Arabaux is some 20 km south of Pamiers and 2 km north-east of Foix to which urban area it belongs. National Highway N20 passes through the south-western corner of the commune partly in a tunnel but it has no exit in the commune with the nearest exit No. 10 south of Saint-Jean-de-Verges. The D1 road goes from Foix through the south of the commune and continues east to Carla-de-Roquefort. Access to the village is by country roads - one from the NR20 Exit 10 and one from the D1 on the eastern border. The commune is heavily forested in the centre and west with the rest of the land farmland.[2]

The Alses river passes through the centre of the commune from east to west then turns north forming part of the western border to join the Ariège near the NR20 Exit 10. The Ruisseau d'Araboux rises west of the village and flows north-west to join the Ariege.[2]

Neighbouring communes and villages[2]

 Labarre Dalou Gudas
Le Capitany L'Herm
   Arabaux  
Foix Montgaillard Pradières

Administration

Arabaux Church

List of Successive Mayors[3]

From To Name Party Position
1804 1808 Jean Duran
1810 1812 Dominique Rouch
1813 1813 Pierre Rouch
1816 1819 François Azam Coustant
1823 1828 Dominique Rouch
1853 1853 Pierre Rouch
1877 1878 Jean Melet
1884 1892 Jean-Baptiste Marfaing
2001 2020 Michel Rouch

(Not all data is known)

Demography

In 2009 the commune had 63 inhabitants. The evolution of the number of inhabitants is known from the population censuses conducted in the commune since 1793. From the 21st century, a census of communes with fewer than 10,000 inhabitants is held every five years, unlike larger towns that have a sample survey every year.[Note 1]

Population Change (See database)
1793 1800 1806 1821 1831 1836 1841 1846 1851
142 159 151 152 154 170 167 180 183
1856 1861 1866 1872 1876 1881 1886 1891 1896
163 173 180 149 170 127 122 114 115
1901 1906 1911 1921 1926 1931 1936 1946 1954
120 104 91 72 75 80 68 62 62
1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2006 2009 -
36 47 37 55 47 54 63 63 -

Sources : Ldh/EHESS/Cassini until 1962, INSEE database from 1968 (population without double counting and municipal population from 2006)

See also

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Notes and references

Notes

  1. ↑ At the beginning of the 21st century, the methods of identification have been modified by Law No. 2002-276 of 27 February 2002, the so-called "law of local democracy" and in particular Title V "census operations" allows, after a transitional period running from 2004 to 2008, the annual publication of the legal population of the different French administrative districts. For communes with a population greater than 10,000 inhabitants, a sample survey is conducted annually, the entire territory of these communes is taken into account at the end of the period of five years. The first "legal population" after 1999 under this new law came into force on 1 January 2009 and was based on the census of 2006.

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