Les Métairies

Les Métairies
Town hall
Les Métairies
Location within Poitou-Charentes region Les Métairies
Coordinates:
Country	France
Region	Aquitaine-Limousin-Poitou-Charentes
Department	Charente
Arrondissement	Cognac
Canton	Jarnac
Intercommunality	Jarnac
Government
• Mayor (2008–2014)	Bertrand Laurent
Area1	5.18 km2 (2.00 sq mi)
Population (2008)2	563
• Density	110/km2 (280/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	16220 / 16200
Elevation	17–48 m (56–157 ft) (avg. 25 m or 82 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.

Les Métairies is a commune in the Charente department in southwestern France.

Population

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±%
1793	400	—
1800	497	+24.2%
1806	501	+0.8%
1821	452	−9.8%
1831	496	+9.7%
1841	500	+0.8%
1846	512	+2.4%
1851	512	+0.0%
1856	505	−1.4%
1861	495	−2.0%
1866	520	+5.1%
1872	517	−0.6%
1876	475	−8.1%
1881	435	−8.4%
1886	415	−4.6%
1891	409	−1.4%
1896	403	−1.5%
1901	418	+3.7%
1906	406	−2.9%
1911	357	−12.1%
1921	371	+3.9%
1926	336	−9.4%
1931	331	−1.5%
1936	319	−3.6%
1946	295	−7.5%
1954	358	+21.4%
1962	320	−10.6%
1968	318	−0.6%
1975	384	+20.8%
1982	416	+8.3%
1990	533	+28.1%
1999	530	−0.6%
2008	563	+6.2%

See also

• Communes of the Charente department

References

• INSEE