Saint-Maurice-de-Beynost

Commune in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

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Commune in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

Coat of arms

Location of Saint-Maurice-de-Beynost

(2020–2026) Pierre Goubet^[1]Area

6.99 km² (2.70 sq mi)Population

(2021)^[2]

4,155 • Density590/km² (1,500/sq mi)Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)INSEE/Postal code

01376 /01700

Elevation172–315 m (564–1,033 ft)
(avg. 200 m or 660 ft)¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Saint-Maurice-de-Beynost (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ mɔʁis də beno] ^ⓘ; literally "Saint-Maurice of Beynost") is a commune in the Ain department, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, located at about 15 km (9 mi) from Lyon.

The commune is included in the canton of Miribel and in the intercommunality of communauté de communes de Miribel et du Plateau.

A small farming village at the beginning of the 20th century, the commune of Saint-Maurice-de-Beynost became an industrial town in the 1920s, following the construction of the second textile factory of the "Lyon Society of Artificial Silk". The need for workers in this factory led to a quadrupling of the population in just five years, between 1926 and 1931. Today, the factory, which belongs to the Japanese group Toray Industries, is still the main employer in the city with nearly five hundred employees.

The inhabitants of Saint-Maurice-de-Beynost are called Mauriciens.

Population

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1793	262	—
1800	250	−0.67%
1806	252	+0.13%
1821	286	+0.85%
1831	322	+1.19%
1836	320	−0.12%
1841	320	+0.00%
1846	324	+0.25%
1851	320	−0.25%
1856	316	−0.25%
1861	311	−0.32%
1866	318	+0.45%
1872	307	−0.59%
1876	286	−1.76%
1881	263	−1.66%
1886	273	+0.75%
1891	287	+1.01%
1896	289	+0.14%

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1901	300	+0.75%
1906	338	+2.41%
1911	318	−1.21%
1921	319	+0.03%
1926	365	+2.73%
1931	1,536	+33.30%
1936	1,576	+0.52%
1946	1,634	+0.36%
1954	1,797	+1.20%
1962	2,011	+1.42%
1968	2,695	+5.00%
1975	2,791	+0.50%
1982	3,503	+3.30%
1990	3,468	−0.13%
1999	4,020	+1.65%
2007	3,885	−0.43%
2012	3,863	−0.11%
2017	3,967	+0.53%

Source: EHESS^[3] and INSEE (1968-2017)^[4]

Sports

Ain Sud Foot, football

References

^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 2 December 2020. Archived from the original on 28 June 2020. Retrieved 24 March 2021.
^ "Populations légales 2021". The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
^ Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Saint-Maurice-de-Beynost, EHESS (in French).
^ Population en historique depuis 1968 Archived 2 September 2022 at the Wayback Machine, INSEE