Country France Department Aveyron Population (2010) 611 Area 15.57 km² Arrondissement Rodez | Region Occitanie Canton Vallon Time zone CET (UTC+1) Local time Wednesday 11:45 AM | |
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Balsac is a former commune in the Aveyron department in the Occitanie region of southern France. On 1 January 2017, it was merged into the new commune Druelle Balsac.
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Map of 12510 Balsac, France
The inhabitants of the commune are known as Balsacois or Balsacoises.
Geography
Balsac is located some 10 km north-west of Rodez and 8 km south-east of Saint-Christophe-Vallon, immediately west of Rodez–Marcillac Airport. Access to the commune is by the D598 which branches off the D57 west of the commune and passes through the village continuing to join the D840 south-east of the commune. The D626 goes north-east from the village to join the D840. The commune is entirely farmland.
The Ruisseau des Parranies and its tributary the Ruisseau du Sauvage rise in the south of the commune and flow west then north-west, forming part of the western border of the commune, to join the Ruisseau de l'Ady west of the commune.
Administration
List of Successive Mayors
(Not all data is known)
Demography
In 2010 the commune had 611 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 communes 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)
Sites and monuments
There are two sites which are registered as historical monuments: