Le Loroux-Bottereau

Commune in Pays de la Loire, France

Le Loroux-Bottereau Le Lorór-Boterèu (Gallo) Lavreer-Botorel (Breton)
Commune
Town hall
Coat of arms
Location of Le Loroux-Bottereau
(2020–2026)		Emmanuel Rivery^[1]
Area ¹	45.31 km² (17.49 sq mi)
Population (2021)^[2]	8,649
• Density	190/km² (490/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	44084 /44430
Elevation	2–93 m (6.6–305.1 ft)
¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Le Loroux-Bottereau (French pronunciation: [lə lɔʁu bɔtʁo]; Gallo: Le Lorór-Boterèu, Breton: Lavreer-Botorel) is a commune in the Loire-Atlantique department in western France.

Population

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1793	7,200	—
1800	2,996	−11.77%
1806	4,971	+8.81%
1821	4,991	+0.03%
1831	4,991	+0.00%
1841	5,012	+0.04%
1846	5,681	+2.54%
1851	5,932	+0.87%
1856	6,058	+0.42%
1861	6,163	+0.34%
1866	4,195	−7.40%
1872	4,067	−0.52%
1876	4,105	+0.23%
1881	4,007	−0.48%
1886	4,029	+0.11%
1891	3,809	−1.12%
1896	3,666	−0.76%
1901	3,572	−0.52%

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1906	3,573	+0.01%
1911	3,476	−0.55%
1921	3,110	−1.11%
1926	3,135	+0.16%
1931	3,052	−0.54%
1936	3,069	+0.11%
1946	2,986	−0.27%
1954	3,024	+0.16%
1962	3,067	+0.18%
1968	3,204	+0.73%
1975	3,488	+1.22%
1982	4,033	+2.10%
1990	4,353	+0.96%
1999	4,939	+1.41%
2007	6,177	+2.84%
2012	7,609	+4.26%
2017	8,227	+1.57%

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 Le Loroux-Bottereau, EHESS (in French).
^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE