Country France Department Charente-Maritime Canton Saint-Jean-d'Angély Area 18.64 km² Population 875 (1999) | Region Nouvelle-Aquitaine Arrondissement Saint-Jean-d'Angély Intercommunality Saint-Jean-d'Angély Local time Sunday 9:01 PM | |
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Vtt a asnie res la giraud
Asnières-la-Giraud is a French commune in the Charente-Maritime department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of south-western France.
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- Vtt a asnie res la giraud
- Map of 17400 AsniC3A8res la Giraud France
- Geography
- Administration
- Budget and Taxation
- Demography
- Distribution of Age Groups
- Economy
- Civil heritage
- Religious heritage
- Notable people linked to the commune
- References
Map of 17400 Asni%C3%A8res-la-Giraud, France
The inhabitants of the commune are known as Asnierois or Asnieroises.
Geography
Asnières-la-Giraud is located some 38 km east of Rochefort and 7 km south of Saint-Jean-d'Angély. Access to the commune is by the D150 road from Saint-Jean-d'Angély in the north which passes through the west of the commune and the village and continues to Saint-Hilaire-de-Villefranche. The D120 road from Saint-Jean-d'Angély passes through the east of the commune and continues to Sainte-Même. The D217 road connects the D120 and the D150 in the commune and continues west to Mazeray. Apart from the village there are the hamlets of La Touzetterie on the north-eastern border, Moulin de la Laigne, La Laigne, Le Plonget, La Giraud, La Rue d'Asnières, Le Puits d'Asnières, Champmiaud, and La Tranche in the south. There are some patches of forest but most of the commune is farmland.
The Loubat river flows south through the commune west of the D150 and through the village before continuing south.
Geologically it is a limestone plateau of the Tithonian period (formerly called Portlandian)
Administration
List of Successive Mayors
(Not all data is known)
Budget and Taxation
The Taxation rates are: 6.28% for housing tax, 11.80% for developed land, 37% for undeveloped land, and 8% business tax. As the community of communes also levies all four taxes: respectively 2.46%, 5.50%, 11.91%, and 3.82%, this gives a total, before the department and the region, of: 8.74% for housing tax, 17.30% for developed land, 48.91% for undeveloped land, and 11.82% business tax (2007 figures).
Demography
In 2010 the commune had 922 inhabitants. The evolution of the number of inhabitants is known from the population censuses conducted in the commune since 1793. From the 21st century, a census of communes with fewer than 10,000 inhabitants is held every five years, unlike larger towns that have a sample survey every year.
Sources : Ldh/EHESS/Cassini until 1962, INSEE database from 1968 (population without double counting and municipal population from 2006)
Distribution of Age Groups
The population of the town is relatively old. The ratio of persons above the age of 60 years (23.9%) is higher than the national average (21.6%) and the departmental average (28.1%). Unlike national and departmental allocations, the male population of the town is greater than the female population (51.1% against 48.4% nationally and 48.2% at the departmental level).
Percentage Distribution of Age Groups in Asnières-la-Giraud and Charente-Maritime Department in 2010
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Economy
Asnières-la-Giraud has always been an agricultural and viticultural; commune. Nevertheless, there are many trades in the commune: a garage, a mechanically construction business, an Emmaus warehouse, and activities linked to tourism with a hotel, a rural cottage, and a Youth Hostel called Chantageasse. The vineyards are in the Appellation d'origine contrôlée (AOC) region of Cognac: the Fins Bois cru.