Canton of Nontron
| Former Canton of Nontron |
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|---|---|
| region | Nouvelle-Aquitaine |
| Department | Dordogne |
| Arrondissement | Nontron |
| main place | Nontron |
| Dissolution date | March 29, 2015 |
| Residents | 8,810 (Jan. 1, 2012) |
| Population density | 33 inhabitants / km² |
| surface | 266.31 km² |
| Communities | 15th |
| INSEE code | 2426 |
The canton of Nontron was 2015 a French constituency in Arrondissement Nontron , in the Dordogne and the former Region Aquitaine (since 2016: Nouvelle-Aquitaine ); its main town was Nontron .
As part of the 2015 regional reform, the former cantons of Nontron , Bussière-Badil and parts of the canton of Saint-Pardoux-la-Rivière were merged to form the new canton of Périgord Vert Nontronnais .
geography
The canton was 266.31 km² and had 9,089 inhabitants (2006), which corresponded to a population density of 34 inhabitants per km². On average, it was 197 meters above sea level , between 115 m in Javerlhac-et-la-Chapelle-Saint-Robert and 355 m in Abjat-sur-Bandiat .
The canton bordered the canton Bussière-Badil in the north, the canton Saint-Mathieu ( Haute-Vienne department ) in the northeast, the canton Saint-Pardoux-la-Rivière in the east, and the canton Champagnac-de-Belair in the south , to the southwest to the canton of Mareuil and to the west to the canton of Montbron ( Département Charente ).
Most of the former canton is drained by the Bandiat , the extreme south and south-west by the Nizonne and only a very small area near Sceau-Saint-Angel by a right tributary of the Dronne .
Communities
The following municipalities were in the canton of Nontron (as of 2007):
| local community | Residents | Area (km²) | Population density inhabitants / km² |
Code Insee | Post Code |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abjat-sur-Bandiat | 649 | 27.62 | 23.5 | 24001 | 24300 |
| Augignac | 821 | 22.64 | 36.3 | 24016 | 24300 |
| Le Bourdeix | 254 | 11.69 | 21.7 | 24056 | 24300 |
| Connezac | 82 | 5.78 | 14.2 | 24131 | 24300 |
| Hautefaye | 113 | 12.47 | 9.1 | 24209 | 24300 |
| Javerlhac-et-la-Chapelle-Saint-Robert | 899 | 29.25 | 30.7 | 24214 | 24300 |
| Lussas-et-Nontronneau | 359 | 22.35 | 16.1 | 24248 | 24360 |
| Nontron | 3458 | 24.67 | 140.2 | 24311 | 24360 |
| Saint-Estèphe | 599 | 21.37 | 28.0 | 24398 | 24300 |
| Saint-Front-sur-Nizonne | 138 | 13.05 | 10.6 | 24411 | 24300 |
| Saint-Martial-de-Valette | 846 | 15.71 | 53.9 | 24451 | 24300 |
| Saint-Martin-le-Pin | 300 | 15.54 | 19.3 | 24458 | 24300 |
| Savignac-de-Nontron | 191 | 9.69 | 19.7 | 24525 | 24300 |
| Sceau-Saint-Angel | 121 | 17.49 | 6.9 | 24528 | 24300 |
| Teyjat | 269 | 16.99 | 15.8 | 24548 | 24300 |
The population in the former canton of Nontron is clearly concentrated in the municipality of Nontron, which also has the highest population density, and its neighboring municipality of Saint-Martial-de-Valette. The largest municipality in terms of area, however, is Javerlhac-et-la-Chapelle-Saint-Robert.
Population development
| 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10,660 | 10,240 | 9885 | 9574 | 9435 | 9101 | 9089 | 9099 | 9084 |