Cruscades

Commune in Occitanie, France

You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in French. (December 2008) Click [show] for important translation instructions.

View a machine-translated version of the French article.
Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia.
Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article.
You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing French Wikipedia article at [[:fr:Cruscades]]; see its history for attribution.
You may also add the template {{Translated|fr|Cruscades}} to the talk page.
For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.

Commune in Occitania, France

Coat of arms

Location of Cruscades

(2020–2026) Jean-Claude Morassutti^[1]Area

9.65 km² (3.73 sq mi)Population

(2021)^[2]

925 • Density96/km² (250/sq mi)Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)INSEE/Postal code

11111 /11200

Elevation26–50 m (85–164 ft)
(avg. 38 m or 125 ft)¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Cruscades (French pronunciation: [kʁyskad] ^ⓘ; Occitan: Cruscadas) is a commune in the Aude department in southern France.

Population

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1968	374	—
1975	341	−1.31%
1982	290	−2.29%
1990	289	−0.04%
1999	324	+1.28%
2009	513	+4.70%
2014	779	+8.71%
2020	921	+2.83%
Source: INSEE^[3]

Geography

The village lies on the left bank of the Orbieu, which forms most of the commune's southern border.

References

^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 2 December 2020.
^ "Populations légales 2021". The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE