Le Horps

Commune in Pays de la Loire, France

Location of Le Horps

(2020–2026) Patrick Soutif^[1]Area

23.27 km² (8.98 sq mi)Population

(2021)^[2]

720 • Density31/km² (80/sq mi)Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)INSEE/Postal code

53116 /53640

Elevation174–301 m (571–988 ft)
(avg. 270 m or 890 ft)¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Le Horps (French pronunciation: [lə ɔʁ]) is a commune in the Mayenne department in north-western France.^[3]

Demography

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1793	1,567	—
1806	1,729	+0.76%
1821	1,631	−0.39%
1836	1,682	+0.21%
1846	1,564	−0.72%
1856	1,583	+0.12%
1866	1,634	+0.32%
1876	1,584	−0.31%
1886	1,454	−0.85%
1896	1,336	−0.84%
1906	1,245	−0.70%
1921	1,048	−1.14%

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1931	953	−0.95%
1946	935	−0.13%
1954	904	−0.42%
1962	836	−0.97%
1968	735	−2.12%
1975	707	−0.55%
1982	671	−0.74%
1990	684	+0.24%
1999	734	+0.79%
2007	758	+0.40%
2012	772	+0.37%
2017	744	−0.74%

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Source: EHESS^[4] and INSEE^[5]

References

^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 9 August 2021.
^ "Populations légales 2021". The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
^ INSEE commune file
^ Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Le Horps, EHESS (in French).
^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE