Beauvais-sur-Matha

Beauvais-sur-Matha
Town hall Town hall
Beauvais-sur-Matha
Location within Poitou-Charentes region Beauvais-sur-Matha
Coordinates:
Country	France
Region	Aquitaine-Limousin-Poitou-Charentes
Department	Charente-Maritime
Arrondissement	Saint-Jean-d'Angély
Canton	Matha
Intercommunality	Pays de Matha
Government
• Mayor (2008–2014)	Corinne Imbert
Area1	12.48 km2 (4.82 sq mi)
Population (2008)2	687
• Density	55/km2 (140/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	17037 / 17490
Elevation	75–132 m (246–433 ft) (avg. 135 m or 443 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.

Beauvais-sur-Matha is a commune in the Charente-Maritime department in the Poitou-Charentes region in southwestern France.

Population

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±%
1793	832	—
1800	909	+9.3%
1806	880	−3.2%
1821	901	+2.4%
1831	1,042	+15.6%
1836	1,086	+4.2%
1841	1,089	+0.3%
1846	1,072	−1.6%
1851	1,059	−1.2%
1856	1,039	−1.9%
1861	1,124	+8.2%
1866	1,086	−3.4%
1872	1,123	+3.4%
1876	1,126	+0.3%
1881	1,058	−6.0%
1886	1,039	−1.8%
1891	1,086	+4.5%
1896	932	−14.2%
1901	915	−1.8%
1906	898	−1.9%
1911	886	−1.3%
1921	800	−9.7%
1926	771	−3.6%
1931	790	+2.5%
1936	750	−5.1%
1946	747	−0.4%
1954	706	−5.5%
1962	702	−0.6%
1968	667	−5.0%
1975	715	+7.2%
1982	691	−3.4%
1990	645	−6.7%
1999	619	−4.0%
2008	687	+11.0%

See also

• Communes of the Charente-Maritime department

References

• INSEE