Saint-Clément-de-Rivière
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Source of the Lez River
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Location within Occitanie region
Saint-Clément-de-Rivière
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| Coordinates: 43°41′04″N 3°50′50″E / 43.6844°N 3.8472°ECoordinates: 43°41′04″N 3°50′50″E / 43.6844°N 3.8472°E | ||
| Country | France | |
| Region | Occitanie | |
| Department | Hérault | |
| Arrondissement | Montpellier | |
| Canton | Matelles | |
| Intercommunality | Pic-Saint-Loup | |
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| • Mayor (2008–2014) | Rodolphe Cayzac from 2014 | |
| Area1 | 12.73 km2 (4.92 sq mi) | |
| Population (2011)2 | 4,926 | |
| • Density | 390/km2 (1,000/sq mi) | |
| Time zone | CET (UTC+1) | |
| • Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) | |
| INSEE/Postal code | 34247 /34980 | |
| Elevation | 46–146 m (151–479 ft) (avg. 64 m or 210 ft) |
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1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. 2Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once. |
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1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
Saint-Clément-de-Rivière is a municipality located close to Montpellier, in the Hérault department in the Occitanie region in southern France.
Saint-Clément-de-Rivière is located at about 10 km north from Montpellier. The town has also common limits with several other municipalities: Les Matelles in the north, Prades-le-Lez in the east, Montferrier-sur-Lez in the south-east, Grabels in the south-west and finally Saint-Gély-du-Fesc in the west. The town is 8 km long from north to south, and its total surface is 12.7 km2. The part of the city near Montpellier welcomes a commercial complex called the shopping mall Trifontaine, with a big supermarket and other diversified shops. Saint-Clément-de-Rivière is still covered by a much forest, scrubland and also by crops, even if some areas are now ready to welcome new accommodation buildings and residences. The Saint Sauveur forest has for example seen the construction of the middle and high schools as well as a private hospital. The center of the town called Le Boulidou was designed by François Spoerry, architect of Port Grimaud too. It includes an area where inhabitants can find basic services and goods, such as a bakery, a hairdresser… and also a space with many private houses painted with Mediterranean colors. The river Le Lez has its source on the territory of Saint-Clément-de-Rivière, in the north, in the Saint Sauveur forest, and then continues its way through some villages and crosses the city of Montpellier to finally end in the Mediterranean Sea.
Official population censuses are made since 1793 in the town, and the census made in 2011 states that Saint-Clément-de-Rivière counted 4 926 inhabitants at this period. According to INSEE data, the density of population is 387 inhabitants per km² in 2011. The most represented age bracket is the one counting inhabitants between 60 and 74, which represent 24,9% of the population in 2011, followed by the one with people between 45 and 59 years old, representing 20,5% of the total population. Then about genders, they are rather equally represented in the town with a number of 2 420 men and 2 506 women in 2011. 58% of families in Saint Clément don’t have children under 25 years old, and next the most common number of children is one with 19,2% of families having one child. INSEE leads censuses about Saint-Clément-de-Rivière since 2004. Censuses are made only every five years for municipalities which count less than 10 000 inhabitants, that’s why we don’t have details about the demography after 2011, for now.
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