Graçay Canton
| Former canton of Graçay |
|
|---|---|
| region | Center-Val de Loire |
| Department | Cher |
| Arrondissement | Vierzon |
| main place | Graçay |
| Dissolution date | March 29, 2015 |
| Residents | 3,570 (Jan 1, 2012) |
| Population density | 26 inhabitants / km² |
| surface | 134.95 km² |
| Communities | 6th |
| INSEE code | 1813 |
The Canton of Graçay was 2015 a French canton in the department of Cher and the region Center-Val de Loire . It comprised six parishes in the Arrondissement Vierzon ; its main town (French: chef-lieu ) was Graçay . The nationwide changes in the composition of the cantons resulted in its dissolution in March 2015.
The canton Graçay was 13,495 hectares (134.95 km 2 ) and last had 3570 inhabitants, which corresponded to a population density of 26 inhabitants per km 2 (as of 2012). It was on average at 135 m , between 91 m Saint-Georges-sur-la-Prée and 176 m in Genouilly .
Communities
The canton consisted of six municipalities:
| local community | Population (as of 2017) |
Code postal | Code Insee |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dampierre-en-Graçay | 248 | 18310 | 18085 |
| Genouilly | 680 | 18310 | 18100 |
| Graçay | 1447 | 18310 | 18103 |
| Nohant-en-Graçay | 306 | 18310 | 18167 |
| Saint-Georges-sur-la-Prée | 611 | 18100 | 18210 |
| Saint-Outrille | 220 | 18310 | 18228 |
Population development
| 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2006 | 2011 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3716 | 4038 | 3916 | 3708 | 3737 | 3652 | 3630 | 3586 |