Airoux

Airoux
Airoux
	Commune
	The main road in Airoux
	Coat of arms
	Location of Airoux
	Airoux Airoux
	Coordinates: 43°22′00″N 1°52′00″E
Country	France
Region	Occitanie
Department	Aude
Arrondissement	Carcassonne
Canton	Le Bassin chaurien
Intercommunality	Castelnaudary Lauragais Audois
Government
• Mayor (2014-2020)	Cédric Malrieu
Area 1	5.49 km2 (2.12 sq mi)
Population (2017-01-01)[1]	163
• Density	30/km2 (77/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	11002 /11320
Elevation	165–251 m (541–823 ft) ; (avg. 192 m or 630 ft)
	1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Airoux (Occitan: Airós) is a commune in the Aude department in the Occitanie region of southern France.

The inhabitants of the commune are known as Airouxois or Airouxoises[2]

Geography

Localisation

Airoux is within the urban area of Castelnaudary situated in the Lauragais on the Rigole de la plaine. It is located some 5 km north-west of Castelnaudary and 15 km south-east of Villefranche-de-Lauragais. It can be accessed on road D217 from Labastide-d'Anjou in the south through the village and continuing north-east to Soupex. There is also the D1 road from Montmaur in the northwest which also passes through the village and continues south-east to Ricaud. The commune consists entirely of farmland with no other villages or hamlets.[3]

Numerous streams cover the entire commune with the Rigole of the Canal du Midi passing through the northern part of the commune and forming part of the northern border. An unnamed watercourse forms the whole western border between the Rigole and the Fresquel river which forms the southern border of the commune. Numerous other unnamed streams and watercourses flow to the Fresquel from the commune to the south, south-east, and east.[3]

Map of Airoux and its surrounding communes

Neighbouring communes and villages[3]

Heraldry

Arms of Airoux	Blazon: Azur with three pales argent in chief the same.

Administration

List of Successive Mayors of Airoux[4]

Mayors from the French Revolution to 1935

From	To	Name
1751	1754	Jacques Melix
1754	1766	Antoine Blou
1766	1772	Jacques Gacher
1772	1784	Pierre Briane
1784	1790	Charles Pontnau
1790	1792	Antoine Biou
1793	1795	M. Bourdil
1795	1799	Jean Mazieres
1799	1808	Jean Pontnau
1808	1814	Jean Raymond Milhes
1823	1830	Barthélémy Bessiere
1830	1831	Emmanuel Denat
1831	1840	Jean Raymond Monier
1840	1846	Emmanuel Denat
1846	1848	Jacques Blou
1848	1852	Jean Pierre Milhes
1852	1870	Jacques Milhes
1870	1871	Jean Pierre Milhes
1871	1878	Jacques Milhes
1878	1908	Raymond Milhes
1908	1919	Antonin Desplats
1919	1935	Joseph Marty

Mayors from 1935

From	To	Name
1935	1945	Maurice Geli
1945	1989	Pierre Geli
1989	2014	Laurent Geli
2014	2020	Cédric Malrieu

Population

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±%
2006	126	—
2007	126	+0.0%
2008	126	+0.0%
2009	129	+2.4%
2010	128	−0.8%
2011	138	+7.8%
2012	147	+6.5%
2013	157	+6.8%
2014	159	+1.3%
2015	159	+0.0%
2016	161	+1.3%

Distribution of Age Groups

The population of the municipality has 42.9% men and 57.1% women. This is generally older than the age groups of metropolitan France. There are 73 people under 20 years old for every 100 people over 60 years old giving an index of 0.73, while the index for French youth, which is equal to the division of the proportion under 20 years by the proportion over 60 years, is 1.06. The index for youth of the commune is also lower than the department (0.76) and that of the region (0.86).[5]

Percentage Distribution of Age Groups in Airoux and Aude Department in 2009

	Airoux	Airoux	Aude	Aude
Age Range	Men	Women	Men	Women
0 to 14 Years	13.0	18.1	17.9	16.0
15 to 29 Years	13.0	12.5	16.1	14.4
30 to 44 Years	22.2	13.9	19.1	18.4
45 to 59 Years	29.6	20.8	20.7	20.4
60 to 74 Years	11.1	20.8	16.7	17.1
75 to 89 Years	9.3	11.1	9.0	12.4
90 Years+	1.9	2.8	0.6	1.4

Sources:

Sites and monuments

Cemetery Cross at Airoux

The commune has two sites that are registered as historical monuments:

The Chateau of Airoux (16th century)[6]
A Cemetery Cross (16th century)[7]

Notes and references

Notes

References

"Populations légales 2017". INSEE. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
Inhabitants of Aude (in French)
IGN Map on Géoportail
List of Mayors of France
Census database for 2009 - departments and regions, INSEE website, consulted on 11 November 2012 (in French).
Ministry of Culture, Mérimée PA00102508 Chateau of Aroux (in French)
Ministry of Culture, Mérimée PA00102509 Cemetery Cross (in French)

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[1] "Populations légales 2017". INSEE. Retrieved 6 January 2020.

[2] Inhabitants of Aude (in French)

[ign-3] IGN Map on Géoportail

[4] List of Mayors of France

[baseDR-5] Census database for 2009 - departments and regions, INSEE website, consulted on 11 November 2012 (in French).

[6] Ministry of Culture, Mérimée PA00102508 Chateau of Aroux (in French)

[7] Ministry of Culture, Mérimée PA00102509 Cemetery Cross (in French)