Asperjoc

Asperjoc is a former commune in the Ardèche department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of southern France. On 1 January 2019, it was merged into the new commune Vallées-d'Antraigues-Asperjoc.[2]

Asperjoc
The entry to Laulagnet
Location of Asperjoc
Asperjoc Show map of France Asperjoc Show map of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Coordinates: 44°41′09″N 4°21′35″E
Country	France
Region	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Department	Ardèche
Arrondissement	Largentière
Canton	Aubenas-1
Area ^1	8.47 km^2 (3.27 sq mi)
Population  (2017-01-01)[1]	404
• Density	48/km^2 (120/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	07016 /07600
Elevation	278–879 m (912–2,884 ft) (avg. 299 m or 981 ft)
^1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km^2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

The inhabitants of the commune are known as Asperjocois.[3]

Geography

Asperjoc is located some 2 km north by north-west of Aubenas and 18 km west by south-west of Privas. Access to the commune is by the D 578 road from Antraigues-sur-Volane in the north which passes down the eastern border of the commune and continues south to Vals-les-Bains. The D 243 branches off the D 578 in the south of the commune and goes north-west through the commune and continues to Labastide-sur-Bésorgues. The commune has no village called Asperjoc but has several hamlets: les Beaumelles, la Brugeyre, le Chastelas, le Fau, Laulagnet, le Pont de Bridou, le Pont de l-Huile, la Praye, le Raccourci, le Rigaudel, Thieure, Tras Chabanne et la Valette inférieure. The commune is rugged and alpine in nature with little or no arable land.[4]

The Volane river forms the entire eastern border of the commune as it flows south to join the Ardèche south of Vals-les-Bains. The Besorgues flows from the north-west of the commune south-east forming part of the western border of the commune and gathering many tributaries in the commune before joining the Volane at the southern corner.[4]

Neighbouring communes and villages[4]

Administration

The Town Hall

List of Successive Mayors[5]

From	To	Name	Party	Position
2001	2008	Louis Berthon
2008	2020	Alain Chiraussel

(Not all data is known)

Demography

In 2010 the commune had 393 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.[Note 1]

Population change (See database)

1793	1800	1806	1821	1831	1836	1841	1846	1851
523	532	540	555	671	684	666	681	807

1856	1861	1866	1872	1876	1881	1886	1891	1896
1,078	1,104	1,060	739	789	836	858	866	856

1901	1906	1911	1921	1926	1931	1936	1946	1954
833	806	790	679	668	635	616	538	505

1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006	2010	-
453	405	407	364	370	361	336	393	-

Sources: Ldh/EHESS/Cassini until 1962, INSEE database from 1968 (population without double counting and municipal population from 2006)

A street in Asperjoc

A road in Asperjoc

Population of Asperjoc

Distribution of Age Groups

The entry to Le Nogier

Asperjoc Landscape

The population of the town is relatively old. The ratio of persons above the age of 60 years (22.3%) is higher than the national average (21.6%) but lower than the departmental average (28.1%). As for national and departmental allocations, the male population of the town is less than the female population (48.8% against 48.4% nationally and 48.2% at the departmental level).

Percentage Distribution of Age Groups in Asperjoc and Ardèche Department in 2010

	Asperjoc	Asperjoc	Ardèche	Ardèche
Age Range	Men	Women	Men	Women
0 to 14 Years	19.0	17.6	18.6	16.8
15 to 29 Years	13.8	15.7	15.3	13.9
30 to 44 Years	24.8	17.1	19.4	18.5
45 to 59 Years	20.5	21.9	21.5	20.6
60 to 74 Years	16.2	18.1	16.5	16.8
75 to 89 Years	5.7	9.0	8.1	11.9
90 Years+	0.0	0.5	0.5	1.5

Sources:

• Evolution and Structure of the population of the Commune in 2010, INSEE.
• Evolution and Structure of the population of the Department in 2010, INSEE.

Sites and monuments

• Church from the 19th century
• La Chaise du Diable waterfall

See also

• Communes of the Ardèche department

Notes and references

Notes

1. At the beginning of the 21st century, the methods of identification have been modified by Law No. 2002-276 of 27 February 2002 Archived 6 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine, the so-called "law of local democracy" and in particular Title V "census operations" allows, after a transitional period running from 2004 to 2008, the annual publication of the legal population of the different French administrative districts. For communes with a population greater than 10,000 inhabitants, a sample survey is conducted annually, the entire territory of these communes is taken into account at the end of the period of five years. The first "legal population" after 1999 under this new law came into force on 1 January 2009 and was based on the census of 2006.

References

1. "Populations légales 2017". INSEE. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
2. Arrêté préfectoral 29 October 2018 (in French)
3. Inhabitants of Ardèche (in French)
4. Google Maps
5. List of Mayors of France (in French)

External links

• Asperjoc on the old IGN website (in French)
• Asperjoc on Lion1906
• Asperjoc on Géoportail, National Geographic Institute (IGN) website (in French)
• Asprejoc on the 1750 Cassini Map
• Asperjoc on the INSEE website (in French)