Saint-Bauzille-de-la-Sylve

Saint-Bauzille-de-la-Sylve
Commune
Town gate
Coat of arms
Location of Saint-Bauzille-de-la-Sylve
Saint-Bauzille-de-la-Sylve Saint-Bauzille-de-la-Sylve
Coordinates: 43°37′05″N 3°32′49″E
Country	France
Region	Occitania
Department	Hérault
Arrondissement	Lodève
Canton	Gignac
Intercommunality	Vallée de l'Hérault
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Grégory Bro
Area 1	8.63 km2 (3.33 sq mi)
Population  (2021)	922
• Density	110/km2 (280/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	34241 /34230
Elevation	68–247 m (223–810 ft) (avg. 60 m or 200 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Saint-Bauzille-de-la-Sylve (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ bozil də la silv]; Occitan: Sant Bausèli de la Seuva) is a commune in the Hérault department in the Occitanie region in southern France.

Geography

Map

Equidistant from the sea and the mountains, this village, located in the canton of Gignac, 33 kilometres (21 mi) west of Montpellier and near the banks of the Hérault River, is overlooked to the east by the imposing ruins of the Château d'Aumelas.

The neighboring communes are Gignac, Aumelas, Vendémian, Le Pouget, Popian.

Climate

In 2010, the climate of the commune is classified as a frank Mediterranean climate, according to a study based on a dataset covering the 1971-2000 period. In 2020, Météo-France published a typology of climates in mainland France in which the commune is exposed to a Mediterranean climate and is part of the Provence, Languedoc-Roussillon climatic region, characterized by low rainfall in summer, very good sunshine (2,600 h/year), a hot summer 21.5 °C (71 °F), very dry air in summer, dry conditions in all seasons, strong winds (with a frequency of 40 to 50% for winds > 5 m/s), and little fog.

For the 1971-2000 period, the average annual temperature was 14.2 °C (58 °F) with an annual atmospheric temperature of 16.4 °C (62 °F). The average annual total rainfall during this period was 782 mm, with 6.4 days of precipitation in January and 2.7 days in July. For the subsequent period of 1991 to 2020, the average annual temperature observed at the nearest weather station, located in the commune of Saint-André-de-Sangonis, 5 kilometres (3 mi) away as the crow flies, is 15.5 °C (60 °F), and the average annual total rainfall is 652.4 mm.

For the future, climate parameters for the commune projected for 2050, based on different greenhouse gas emission scenarios, can be consulted on a dedicated website published by Météo-France in November 2022.

Population

Changes in the number of inhabitants have been documented through population censuses conducted in the commune since 1793. For communes with fewer than 10,000 inhabitants, a full census of the population is conducted every five years, with the legal populations for the intervening years estimated through interpolation or extrapolation. For this commune, the first complete census under the new system was carried out in 2005.

In 2021, the commune had a population of 922, reflecting an increase of +12,3 % since 2015 (Hérault: +7.29%, France excluding Mayotte: +1.84%).

Historical population

Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1793 444 —     1800 445 +0.03% 1806 568 +4.15% 1821 551 −0.20% 1831 580 +0.51% 1836 558 −0.77% 1841 537 −0.76% 1846 524 −0.49% 1851 560 +1.34% 1856 577 +0.60% 1861 543 −1.21% 1866 541 −0.07% 1872 601 +1.77% 1876 614 +0.54% 1881 472 −5.12% 1886 460 −0.51% 1891 479 +0.81% 1896 520 +1.66% 1901 524 +0.15% 1906 512 −0.46%	Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1911 546 +1.29% 1921 564 +0.32% 1926 591 +0.94% 1931 550 −1.43% 1936 586 +1.28% 1946 576 −0.17% 1954 612 +0.76% 1962 618 +0.12% 1968 605 −0.35% 1975 529 −1.90% 1982 527 −0.05% 1990 602 +1.68% 1999 720 +2.01% 2005 799 +1.75% 2006 808 +1.13% 2010 830 +0.67% 2015 821 −0.22% 2020 903 +1.92% 2021 922 +2.10%
Source: Ldh/EHESS/Cassini until 1999, and INSEE since 2006.

See also

• Communes of the Hérault department