Vals-les-Bains

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Commune in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

Coat of arms

Location of Vals-les-Bains

(2022–2026) Michel Ceysson^[1]Area

19.2 km² (7.4 sq mi)Population

(2021)^[2]

3,485 • Density180/km² (470/sq mi)DemonymValsoisTime zoneUTC+01:00 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)INSEE/Postal code

07331 /07600

Elevation250–985 m (820–3,232 ft)
(avg. 328 m or 1,076 ft)¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Vals-les-Bains (French pronunciation: [vals le bɛ̃];^[3] Occitan: Vals) is a commune in the Ardèche department in southern France.

Population

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1793	2,063	—
1800	1,960	−0.73%
1806	2,090	+1.08%
1821	2,201	+0.35%
1831	2,355	+0.68%
1836	2,415	+0.50%
1841	2,789	+2.92%
1846	2,834	+0.32%
1851	2,875	+0.29%
1856	2,963	+0.60%
1861	2,800	−1.13%
1866	2,795	−0.04%
1872	3,240	+2.49%
1876	3,301	+0.47%
1881	3,410	+0.65%
1886	3,911	+2.78%
1891	3,684	−1.19%
1896	3,817	+0.71%

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1901	4,025	+1.07%
1906	4,352	+1.57%
1911	4,414	+0.28%
1921	4,004	−0.97%
1926	4,218	+1.05%
1931	3,956	−1.27%
1936	3,691	−1.38%
1946	3,719	+0.08%
1954	3,843	+0.41%
1962	3,866	+0.07%
1968	4,190	+1.35%
1975	4,129	−0.21%
1982	3,933	−0.69%
1990	3,661	−0.89%
1999	3,536	−0.39%
2007	3,741	+0.71%
2012	3,412	−1.82%
2017	3,582	+0.98%

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

References

^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires" (in French). data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 4 May 2022.
^ "Populations légales 2021". The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
^ Comment Vals-les-Bains (Ardèche) se prépare aux épisodes cévenols ?, archived from the original on 12 December 2021, retrieved 16 April 2021
^ Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Vals-les-Bains, EHESS (in French).
^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE