Coursan

Commune in Occitanie, France

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Commune in Occitania, France

Coat of arms

Location of Coursan

(2020–2026) Edouard Rocher^[1]Area

24.61 km² (9.50 sq mi)Population

(2021)^[2]

5,751 • Density230/km² (610/sq mi)Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)INSEE/Postal code

11106 /11110

Elevation0–14 m (0–46 ft)¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Coursan (French pronunciation: [kuʁsɑ̃] ^ⓘ; Occitan: Corçan) is a commune in the Aude department in southern France. Coursan station has rail connections to Narbonne, Béziers and Montpellier.

It is 7 km from Narbonne on the river Aude. There is a bridge built in the fifteenth century, over which passes the RN9 road. The town has a church from the same period which is in the course of being restored.

Composer Henry Fourès was born in Coursan (17 May 1948)

Population

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1793	1,440	—
1800	1,436	−0.04%
1806	1,414	−0.26%
1821	1,630	+0.95%
1831	1,761	+0.78%
1836	1,850	+0.99%
1841	2,022	+1.79%
1846	2,040	+0.18%
1851	2,172	+1.26%
1856	2,231	+0.54%
1861	2,154	−0.70%
1866	2,477	+2.83%
1872	2,538	+0.41%
1876	2,709	+1.64%
1881	3,458	+5.00%
1886	3,786	+1.83%
1891	3,847	+0.32%
1896	3,767	−0.42%

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1901	3,829	+0.33%
1906	3,802	−0.14%
1911	3,793	−0.05%
1921	4,121	+0.83%
1926	4,273	+0.73%
1931	4,438	+0.76%
1936	3,589	−4.16%
1946	3,271	−0.92%
1954	3,228	−0.17%
1962	3,212	−0.06%
1968	3,366	+0.78%
1975	3,334	−0.14%
1982	4,021	+2.71%
1990	5,137	+3.11%
1999	5,241	+0.22%
2007	6,166	+2.05%
2012	6,056	−0.36%
2017	5,908	−0.49%

Source: EHESS^[3] and INSEE (1968-2017)^[4]

References

^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires" (in French). data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 13 September 2022.
^ "Populations légales 2021". The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
^ Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Coursan, EHESS (in French).
^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE