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Balaguier-sur-Rance
Balaguier-sur-Rance
Commune
	Balaguier-sur-Rance seen from the nearby hillside
	Location of Balaguier-sur-Rance
	Balaguier-sur-Rance Balaguier-sur-Rance
	Coordinates: 43°53′55″N 2°34′39″E / 43.8986°N 2.5775°E
Country	France
Region	Occitania
Department	Aveyron
Arrondissement	Millau
Canton	Causses-Rougiers
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	David Maury
Area 1	9.8 km2 (3.8 sq mi)
Population (2021)	89
• Density	9.1/km2 (24/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	12019 /12380
Elevation	253–748 m (830–2,454 ft) ; (avg. 271 m or 889 ft)
	1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Balaguier-sur-Rance (French pronunciation: [balaɡje syʁ ʁɑ̃s]; Occitan: Balaguièr de Rance) is a commune in the Aveyron department in the Occitanie region of southern France.

Geography

Balaguier-sur-Rance is located some 32 km east of Albi and just north of Saint-Sernin-sur-Rance. The whole western border of the commune is the departmental boundary between Aveyron and Tarn. The commune is divided into two parts situated on either side of the Rance river. Balaguier le Maigre (the thin) or le Vieux (the old) is on the right bank with its houses clinging to a rocky outcrop that supported a fortified structure of which there remains no trace. On the left bank is Balaguier le Gras (the fat) with the church, the town hall, and a chateau from the 15th and 16th centuries. Both banks are connected by a stone bridge from the 15th century. Access to the commune is by the D33 road from Curvalle in the north-west which passes through the commune and the village and joins the D999 on the communal border then continues to Saint-Sernin-sur-Rance. The D999 passes through the south of the commune as it goes from Alban to Vabres-l'Abbaye.^[3]

The Rance river flows through the centre of the commune from east to west where it continues north-west to join the Tarn east of Trébas. Many tributaries rise in the commune on both banks of the Rance and flow into it.^[3]

Neighbouring communes and villages

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Administration

List of Successive Mayors^[4]

From	To	Name
1846	1870	Pierre Cadas
1870	1876	Casimir Guy
1876	1902	Pierre Sylvain Frédéric Villeneuve
1902	1904	Auguste Louis Cadas
1995	2014	Philippe Boularan
2014	2026	David Maury

Demography

The inhabitants of the commune are known as Balaguiérois or Balaguiéroises in French.^[5]

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1793	360	—
1800	403	+1.62%
1846	519	+0.55%
1851	550	+1.17%
1856	506	−1.65%
1861	502	−0.16%
1866	480	−0.89%
1872	510	+1.02%
1876	502	−0.39%
1881	423	−3.37%
1886	458	+1.60%
1891	444	−0.62%
1896	450	+0.27%
1901	446	−0.18%
1906	403	−2.01%
1911	393	−0.50%

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1921	329	−1.76%
1926	330	+0.06%
1931	294	−2.28%
1936	278	−1.11%
1946	268	−0.37%
1954	224	−2.22%
1962	209	−0.86%
1968	172	−3.20%
1975	150	−1.94%
1982	127	−2.35%
1990	104	−2.47%
1999	100	−0.43%
2007	91	−1.17%
2012	100	+1.90%
2017	92	−1.65%