Saint-Marcellin, Isère

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Commune in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

Coat of arms

Location of Saint-Marcellin

(2020–2026) Raphaël Mocellin^[1]Area

7.81 km² (3.02 sq mi)Population

(2021)^[2]

7,708 • Density990/km² (2,600/sq mi)Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)INSEE/Postal code

38416 /38160

Elevation275–300 m (902–984 ft)¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Saint-Marcellin (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ maʁsəlɛ̃] ^ⓘ) is a commune in the Isère department, in southeastern France,^[3] 51 km from Grenoble.

The town is served by a railway station, on the line from Valence to Grenoble.

Population

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1793	3,013	—
1800	3,047	+0.16%
1806	3,215	+0.90%
1821	2,780	−0.96%
1831	3,191	+1.39%
1836	2,885	−2.00%
1841	3,116	+1.55%
1846	3,408	+1.81%
1851	3,460	+0.30%
1856	3,459	−0.01%
1861	3,295	−0.97%
1866	3,173	−0.75%
1872	3,340	+0.86%
1876	3,307	−0.25%
1881	3,250	−0.35%
1886	3,393	+0.86%
1891	3,392	−0.01%
1896	3,308	−0.50%

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1901	3,237	−0.43%
1906	3,305	+0.42%
1911	3,348	+0.26%
1921	3,312	−0.11%
1926	3,764	+2.59%
1931	3,995	+1.20%
1936	4,258	+1.28%
1946	4,308	+0.12%
1954	4,486	+0.51%
1962	5,298	+2.10%
1968	6,186	+2.62%
1975	6,779	+1.32%
1982	6,795	+0.03%
1990	6,696	−0.18%
1999	6,955	+0.42%
2007	7,794	+1.43%
2012	8,075	+0.71%
2017	7,903	−0.43%

Source: EHESS^[4] and INSEE (1968-2017)^[5]

Twin towns

Saint-Marcellin is twinned with:

Grafing, Germany, since 1994
Fiesso d'Artico, Italy, since 2007

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.
^ INSEE commune file
^ Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Saint-Marcellin, EHESS (in French).
^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE