Grandchamp-des-Fontaines

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Commune in Pays de la Loire, France

Grandchamp-des-Fontaines Graunchaun (Gallo) Gregamp-ar-Feunteunioù (Breton)
Commune

Coat of arms
Location of Grandchamp-des-Fontaines
(2020–2026)		François Ouvrard^[1]
Area ¹	33.87 km² (13.08 sq mi)
Population (2021)^[2]	6,759
• Density	200/km² (520/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	44066 /44119
Elevation	8–70 m (26–230 ft)
¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Grandchamp-des-Fontaines (French pronunciation: [ɡʁɑ̃ʃɑ̃ de fɔ̃tɛn] ^ⓘ; before 2023: Grandchamps-des-Fontaines; Gallo: Graunchaun, Breton: Gregamp-ar-Feunteunioù) is a commune in the Loire-Atlantique department in western France.

Population

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1793	1,370	—
1800	1,304	−0.70%
1806	1,226	−1.02%
1821	1,133	−0.52%
1831	1,446	+2.47%
1841	1,487	+0.28%
1846	1,658	+2.20%
1851	1,845	+2.16%
1856	1,871	+0.28%
1861	1,942	+0.75%
1866	1,987	+0.46%
1872	1,921	−0.56%
1876	1,953	+0.41%
1881	1,895	−0.60%
1886	1,886	−0.10%
1891	1,885	−0.01%
1896	1,769	−1.26%
1901	1,714	−0.63%

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1906	1,711	−0.04%
1911	1,641	−0.83%
1921	1,459	−1.17%
1926	1,463	+0.05%
1931	1,368	−1.33%
1936	1,390	+0.32%
1946	1,307	−0.61%
1954	1,311	+0.04%
1962	1,281	−0.29%
1968	1,291	+0.13%
1975	1,578	+2.91%
1982	2,223	+5.02%
1990	2,464	+1.29%
1999	3,466	+3.86%
2007	4,334	+2.83%
2012	5,156	+3.53%
2017	6,016	+3.13%

Source: EHESS^[3] and INSEE (1968-2017)^[4]

References

^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires" (in French). data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 13 September 2022.
^ "Populations légales 2021". The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
^ Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Grandchamps-des-Fontaines, EHESS (in French).
^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE