The commune has been awarded one flower by the National Council of Towns and Villages in Bloom in the Competition of cities and villages in Bloom.[3]
Geography
Agnin is located some 25 km south of Vienne and 5 km north-east of Saint-Rambert-d'Albon. It can be accessed by the road D519 from near Chanas in the west passing through the southern part of the commune and continuing to Bouge-Chambalud. Parallel to this road in the north of the commune is the D51 road from Salaise-sur-Sanne in the west passing through the commune and the village and continuing to Anjou in the east. The D131 also comes from the Ville-sous-Anjou in the north joining the D51 west of the village. The Route de Bouge connects the village to the D519 in the south of the commune. The commune is mostly farmland with significant areas of housing in the north and some small areas of forest in the south.[4]
An unnamed stream flows south forming the western border of the commune and another unnamed stream flows through the commune then forms the south-western border. They both join in the south-west and continue flowing west. The Dolon stream forms the southern border of the commune
Like the nearby town of Anjou the origin of the name Agnin comes from the name of a Roman noble Anianus who owned vast territory in that era. The name of the town changed a few centuries later to Agnino which was the name used in the 11th century to describe this commune. Then over the following centuries Agnino became the Agnin known today.[5]
Heraldry
[[Image:|120px|center|Arms of Agnin]]
Blazon:
Party per bend sinister, one of Or a local church soutenu at dexter by an inescutcheon with two keys saltirewise and sinister in chief a Vol all represented in lines; two of gules a dolphin of Or at dexter and a rose gules stalked and leaved in vert; in the cotice a bend sinister in Or charged with the letters AGNIN in sable debruised on the division.
The inhabitants of the commune are known as Agnitaires in French.[7]
Historical population
Year
Pop.
±% p.a.
1800
459
—
1806
609
+4.83%
1821
738
+1.29%
1831
725
−0.18%
1836
696
−0.81%
1841
733
+1.04%
1846
717
−0.44%
1851
705
−0.34%
1856
589
−3.53%
1861
612
+0.77%
1866
588
−0.80%
1872
572
−0.46%
1876
564
−0.35%
1881
565
+0.04%
1886
544
−0.75%
1891
502
−1.59%
1896
512
+0.40%
1901
525
+0.50%
Year
Pop.
±% p.a.
1906
536
+0.42%
1911
520
−0.60%
1921
503
−0.33%
1926
432
−3.00%
1931
402
−1.43%
1936
438
+1.73%
1946
457
+0.43%
1954
479
+0.59%
1962
460
−0.50%
1968
462
+0.07%
1975
505
+1.28%
1982
605
+2.61%
1990
648
+0.86%
1999
789
+2.21%
2007
903
+1.70%
2012
1,026
+2.59%
2017
1,106
+1.51%
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^"Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 2 December 2020. Archived from the original on 28 June 2020. Retrieved 9 April 2021.