Les Essards, Charente

Les Essards
Commune
Town hall
Les Essards Les Essards
Coordinates: 45°14′27″N 0°07′03″E
Country	France
Region	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Department	Charente
Arrondissement	Angoulême
Canton	Tude-et-Lavalette
Intercommunality	Lavalette Tude Dronne
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Philippe Adamy
Area 1	8.98 km2 (3.47 sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	16130 /16210
Elevation	30–145 m (98–476 ft) (avg. 124 m or 407 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Les Essards (French pronunciation: [le.z‿ɛsaʁ] (listen); Occitan: Los Eissarts) is a commune in the Charente department in southwestern France.

Population

Historical population

Year Pop. ±% 1793 849 —     1800 795 −6.4% 1806 707 −11.1% 1821 761 +7.6% 1831 792 +4.1% 1841 774 −2.3% 1846 770 −0.5% 1851 728 −5.5% 1856 707 −2.9% 1861 658 −6.9% 1866 622 −5.5% 1872 585 −5.9% 1876 592 +1.2% 1881 565 −4.6% 1886 550 −2.7% 1891 508 −7.6% 1896 478 −5.9%

Year Pop. ±% 1901 452 −5.4% 1906 452 +0.0% 1911 405 −10.4% 1921 354 −12.6% 1926 329 −7.1% 1931 335 +1.8% 1936 319 −4.8% 1946 314 −1.6% 1954 304 −3.2% 1962 277 −8.9% 1968 241 −13.0% 1975 233 −3.3% 1982 203 −12.9% 1990 193 −4.9% 1999 196 +1.6% 2008 211 +7.7%

See also

• Communes of the Charente department