Le Landreau

Commune in Pays de la Loire, France

Le Landreau Le Landraud (Gallo) Lannerell (Breton)
Commune
Le Landreau in 1910
Coat of arms
Location of Le Landreau
(2020–2026)		Christophe Richard^[1]
Area ¹	23.98 km² (9.26 sq mi)
Population (2021)^[2]	3,160
• Density	130/km² (340/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	44079 /44430
Elevation	3–96 m (9.8–315.0 ft)
¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Le Landreau (French pronunciation: [lə lɑ̃dʁo] ^ⓘ; Gallo: Le Landraud, Breton: Lannerell) is a commune in the Loire-Atlantique department in western France.

Population

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1872	2,025	—
1901	1,839	−0.33%
1926	1,444	−0.96%
1946	1,374	−0.25%
1962	1,368	−0.03%
1968	1,354	−0.17%
1975	1,386	+0.33%

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1982	1,851	+4.22%
1990	2,026	+1.14%
1999	2,140	+0.61%
2007	2,766	+3.26%
2012	2,883	+0.83%
2017	2,995	+0.77%

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

References

^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires" (in French). data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 13 September 2022.
^ "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 Le Landreau, EHESS (in French).
^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE