Saint-Jouin-de-Blavou

Saint-Jouin-de-Blavou
Saint-Jouin-de-Blavou
Location within Normandy region  Saint-Jouin-de-Blavou
Coordinates: 48°27′10″N 0°28′27″E / 48.4528°N 0.4742°ECoordinates: 48°27′10″N 0°28′27″E / 48.4528°N 0.4742°E
Country	France
Region	Normandy
Department	Orne
Arrondissement	Mortagne-au-Perche
Canton	Pervenchères
Intercommunality	Pays de Pervenchères
Government
• Mayor (2008–2014)	Gérard Pinton
Area^1	17.71 km^2 (6.84 sq mi)
Population (2006)^2	294
• Density	17/km^2 (43/sq mi)
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
INSEE/Postal code	61411 / 61360
Elevation	152–207 m (499–679 ft) (avg. 187 m or 614 ft)
^1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. ^2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Saint-Jouin-de-Blavou is a commune in the Orne department in the Basse-Normandie region of north-western France. Its 309 inhabitants are known as Jovinians.

Demography

Date of Population
(Source: INSEE)

1793 1800 1806 1820 1821 1831 1836 1841 1846 1851 692 803 803 - 864 abs. 934 884 900 956

1856 1861 1866 1872 1876 1881 1886 1891 1896 892 899 838 848 845 798 696 668 632

1901 1906 1911 1921 1926 1931 1936 1946 1954 599 577 524 478 489 426 447 461 441

1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2004 - - 474 398 322 284 302 309 - - - For the census of 1962 to 1999 the official population corresponds with the population without duplicates according to the INSEE.

Graph of population change 1794-1820 & 1836-1999

Places of interest

• Church of Saint-Jouin (sixteenth century)
• The manor house of Blavou (sixteenth century) and its bread oven, classified as historic monuments
• The château de Chanceaux (sixteenth century) and its chapel of Saint-Marc (seventeenth century), also classified as historic monuments

See also

• Communes of the Orne department

References

• INSEE commune file