Montaigu-Vendée

Montaigu-Vendée
Montaigu-Vendée
Commune
	The Château de Montaigu
	Location of Montaigu-Vendée
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	Coordinates: 46°58′27″N 1°18′49″W / 46.97417°N 1.31361°W
Country	France
Region	Pays de la Loire
Department	Vendée
Arrondissement	La Roche-sur-Yon
Canton	Montaigu-Vendée
Intercommunality	CA Terres de Montaigu
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Florent Limouzin
Area 1	117.92 km2 (45.53 sq mi)
Population (2021)	20,605
• Density	170/km2 (450/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	85146 /85600
Elevation	13–84 m (43–276 ft)
	1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Montaigu-Vendée (French pronunciation: [mɔ̃tɛɡy vɑ̃de]) is a commune in the Vendée department in the Pays de la Loire region in western France. The municipality was established on January 1, 2019 by the merger of the communes of Boufféré, La Guyonnière, Montaigu, Saint-Georges-de-Montaigu and Saint-Hilaire-de-Loulay.^[3]

Population

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1968	9,057	—
1975	11,142	+3.00%
1982	12,474	+1.63%
1990	13,736	+1.21%
1999	15,562	+1.40%
2007	17,925	+1.78%
2012	19,383	+1.58%
2017	20,126	+0.76%
Populations of the area corresponding with the commune of Montaigu-Vendée at 1 January 2020, INSEE^[4]

^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 2 December 2020.
^ "Populations légales 2021" (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
^ Préfecture de la Vendée (20 April 2017). Arrêté n° 17 - DRCTAJ/2 - 129 portant création de la commune nouvelle " Montaigu-Vendée " (PDF) (in French). La Roche-sur-Yon. p. 30.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE

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