Asperjoc

Asperjoc
Asperjoc
Part of Vallées-d'Antraigues-Asperjoc
	The entry to Laulagnet
	Location of Asperjoc
	Asperjoc Asperjoc
	Coordinates: 44°41′09″N 4°21′35″E / 44.6858°N 4.3597°E
Country	France
Region	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Department	Ardèche
Arrondissement	Largentière
Canton	Aubenas-1
Commune	Vallées-d'Antraigues-Asperjoc
Area 1	8.47 km2 (3.27 sq mi)
Population (2021)	360
• Density	43/km2 (110/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal code	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 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Asperjoc (French pronunciation: [aspɛʁʒɔk]; Occitan: Asperjòc) 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]

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.^[3]

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.^[3]

Neighbouring communes and villages

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Administration

List of Successive Mayors^[4]

From	To	Name
2001	2008	Louis Berthon
2008	2019	Alain Chiraussel

Demography

The inhabitants of the commune are known as Asperjocois in French.^[5]

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1793	523	—
1800	532	+0.24%
1806	540	+0.25%
1821	555	+0.18%
1831	671	+1.92%
1836	684	+0.38%
1841	666	−0.53%
1846	681	+0.45%
1851	807	+3.45%
1856	1,078	+5.96%
1861	1,104	+0.48%
1866	1,060	−0.81%
1872	739	−5.83%
1876	789	+1.65%
1881	836	+1.16%
1886	858	+0.52%
1891	866	+0.19%
1896	856	−0.23%

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1901	833	−0.54%
1906	806	−0.66%
1911	790	−0.40%
1921	679	−1.50%
1926	668	−0.33%
1931	635	−1.01%
1936	616	−0.61%
1946	538	−1.34%
1954	505	−0.79%
1962	453	−1.35%
1968	405	−1.85%
1975	407	+0.07%
1982	364	−1.58%
1990	370	+0.20%
1999	361	−0.27%
2007	336	−0.89%
2012	418	+4.46%
2021	360	−1.65%

Source: EHESS^[6] and INSEE^[7]^[1]

Distribution of Age Groups

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:

Sites and monuments

Church from the 19th century
La Chaise du Diable waterfall

References

^ ^a ^b "Populations légales 2021" [Legal populations 2021] (PDF) (in French). INSEE. December 2023.
^ Arrêté préfectoral 29 October 2018 (in French)
^ ^a ^b ^c Google Maps
^ List of Mayors of France (in French)
^ Le nom des habitants du 07 - Ardèche, habitants.fr
^ Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Asperjoc, EHESS (in French).
^ Populations légales 2012, INSEE

External links

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

[pop2021-1] "Populations légales 2021" [Legal populations 2021] (PDF) (in French). INSEE. December 2023.

[2] Arrêté préfectoral 29 October 2018 (in French)

[Google-3] Google Maps

[4] List of Mayors of France (in French)

[5] Le nom des habitants du 07 - Ardèche, habitants.fr

[ehess-6] Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Asperjoc, EHESS (in French).

[pophist-7] Populations légales 2012, INSEE

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