Canton of Lézignan-Corbières

Former canton of Lézignan-Corbières
region	Languedoc-Roussillon
Department	Aude
Arrondissement	Narbonne
main place	Lézignan-Corbières
Dissolution date	March 29, 2015
Residents	23,280 (Jan. 1, 2012)
Population density	89 inhabitants / km²
surface	262.10 km²
Communities	18th
INSEE code	1119
Location of the canton of Lézignan-Corbières in the Aude department

The Canton Lézignan-Corbières was 2015 a French canton in the department of Aude and the region Languedoc-Roussillon . It included 18 parishes in the Arrondissement of Carcassonne ; its main town (French: chef-lieu ) was Lézignan-Corbières . With the nationwide changes in the composition of the cantons in March 2015, some of its member municipalities were assigned to the new canton Le Lézignanais .

The canton was 262.10 km ² and last had 23,280 inhabitants (as of 2012), which corresponded to a population density of 89 inhabitants per km ² . It was on average at 75  m , between 19  m in Lézignan-Corbières and 589  m in Camplong-d'Aude.

Communities

The canton consisted of 18 municipalities:

local community	Population  (as of 2017)	Code postal	Code Insee
Argens-Minervois	347	11200	11013
Boutenac	721	11200	11048
Camplong-d'Aude	367	11200	11064
Castelnau-d'Aude	491	11700	11077
Conilhac-Corbières	917	11200	11098
Cruscades	926	11200	11111
Escales	465	11200	11126
Fabrezan	1291	11200	11132
Ferrals-les-Corbières	1192	11200	11140
Font envelope	546	11700	11148
Homps	591	11200	11172
Lézignan-Corbières	11,168	11200	11203
Luc-sur-Orbieu	1144	11200	11210
Montbrun-des-Corbières	309	11700	11241
Montséret	594	11200	11256
Ornaisons	1181	11200	11267
Saint-André-de-Roquelongue	1390	11200	11332
Tourouzelle	469	11200	11393

Population development

1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006	2012
15,998	17.192	16,285	16.002	16,905	17,924	20,498	23,280

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Décret n ° 2014-204 du 21 février 2014 portant délimitation des cantons dans le département de l'Aude published in JORF and in Légifrance (French).