Saint-Hippolyte, Pyrénées-Orientales

Commune in Occitania, France

Saint-Hippolyte-de-la-Salanque Sant Hipòlit de la Salanca
Commune
The church in Saint-Hippolyte
Coat of arms
Location of Saint-Hippolyte-de-la-Salanque
(2020–2026)		Madeleine Garcia-Vidal^[1]
Area ¹	14.65 km² (5.66 sq mi)
Population (2021)^[2]	3,227
• Density	220/km² (570/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	66176 /66510
Elevation	0–11 m (0–36 ft) (avg. 6 m or 20 ft)
¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Saint-Hippolyte (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃tipɔlit] ^ⓘ), also known as Saint-Hippolyte-de-la-Salanque (pronounced [sɛ̃tipɔlit də la salɑ̃k]; Catalan: Sant Hipòlit de la Salanca, [santiˈpɔlid de la səˈlaŋkə]), is a commune in the Pyrénées-Orientales department, Occitania, southern France.

Geography

Saint-Hippolyte is located in the canton of La Côte Salanquaise and in the arrondissement of Perpignan.

Government and politics

Mayors

Mayor	Term start	Term end
Étienne Masnou^[3]	?	June 1815
Pierre Gari^[3]	June 1815	?

Michel Montagne	2001	2014
Madeleine Garcia-Vidal	2014

Population

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Historical population
Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1968	1,033	—
1975	1,044	+0.15%
1982	1,038	−0.08%
1990	1,616	+5.69%
1999	1,849	+1.51%
2007	2,327	+2.92%
2012	2,719	+3.16%
2017	3,052	+2.34%
Source: INSEE^[4]

References

^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 2 December 2020.
^ "Populations légales 2021". The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
^ ^a ^b (in French) Fabricio Cardenas, Vieux papiers des Pyrénées-Orientales, Saint-Hippolyte, le 31 mai 1815, 25 january 2014
^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE