Le Château-d'Oléron

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Le Château-d'Oléron
Commune
Art and craft shops in Le Château-d'Oléron
Coat of arms
Location of Le Château-d'Oléron
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Coordinates: 45°53′09″N 1°11′41″W / 45.8858°N 1.1947°W / 45.8858; -1.1947
Country	France
Region	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Department	Charente-Maritime
Arrondissement	Rochefort
Canton	Île d'Oléron
Intercommunality	Île-d'Oléron
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Michel Parent^[1]
Area ¹	15.67 km² (6.05 sq mi)
Population (2021)^[2]	4,319
• Density	280/km² (710/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	17093 /17480
Elevation	0–10 m (0–33 ft)
¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Le Château-d'Oléron (French pronunciation: [lə ʃɑto dɔleʁɔ̃]; Occitan: Lo Chasteu d'Olairon, before 1962: Le Château)^[3] is a commune located on the Island of Oléron, in the Charente-Maritime department, southwestern France.

The town is surrounded by fortifications in the form of a Bastion fort (similar to a "star fort".)

Population

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1793	2,251	—
1800	2,558	+1.84%
1806	2,735	+1.12%
1821	2,632	−0.26%
1831	2,527	−0.41%
1836	2,644	+0.91%
1841	2,485	−1.23%
1846	2,542	+0.45%
1851	2,632	+0.70%
1856	3,003	+2.67%
1861	2,920	−0.56%
1866	3,211	+1.92%
1872	3,328	+0.60%
1876	2,850	−3.80%
1881	3,132	+1.90%
1886	3,007	−0.81%
1891	3,458	+2.83%
1896	3,573	+0.66%

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1901	3,803	+1.26%
1906	3,334	−2.60%
1911	3,734	+2.29%
1921	3,142	−1.71%
1926	3,018	−0.80%
1931	3,061	+0.28%
1936	3,281	+1.40%
1946	2,864	−1.35%
1954	2,870	+0.03%
1962	3,171	+1.25%
1968	3,254	+0.43%
1975	3,324	+0.30%
1982	3,411	+0.37%
1990	3,544	+0.48%
1999	3,552	+0.03%
2007	3,949	+1.33%
2012	3,949	+0.00%
2017	4,184	+1.16%

Source: EHESS^[4] and INSEE (1968-2017)^[5]

Le Château-d'Oléron, 1703 military mock-up
The main gate of the citadel
Old oyster farmers' huts renewed and converted into arts and crafts shops

See also

Communes of the Charente-Maritime department

References

^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 2 December 2020.
^ "Populations légales 2021" (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
^ Décret du 2 mars 1962 portant changement de nom de communes, Journal officiel de la République française n° 0055, 7 March 1962, p. 2308.
^ Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Le Château-d'Oléron, EHESS (in French).
^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE

External links

Media related to Le Château-d'Oléron at Wikimedia Commons

Communes of the Charente-Maritime department

^pref: prefecture
^subpr: subprefecture

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