Cenon

For other uses, see Cenon (disambiguation).

Not to be confused with Xenon.

Cenon
Commune
Train station
Coat of arms
Location of Cenon
Cenon Show map of France Cenon Show map of Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Coordinates: 44°51′28″N 0°31′54″W / 44.8578°N 0.5317°W / 44.8578; -0.5317
Country	France
Region	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Department	Gironde
Arrondissement	Bordeaux
Canton	Cenon
Intercommunality	Bordeaux Métropole
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Jean-François Egron[1]
Area ^1	5.52 km^2 (2.13 sq mi)
Population  (2022)[2]	26,784
• Density	4,850/km^2 (12,600/sq mi)
Demonym	Cenonnais(e)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	33119 /33150
Elevation	3–75 m (9.8–246.1 ft) (avg. 123 m or 404 ft)
^1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km^2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Cenon (French pronunciation: [sənɔ̃]; Gascon: Senon) is a commune in the department of Gironde, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, southwestern France.

It is a suburb of the city of Bordeaux, and is adjacent to it on the east side.

Notable people

• Virgile Pinson, footballer

Heraldry

Coat of arms of Cenon

Gules, a doe salient or, above a wavy, couped and reduced barry of twelve argent and azure pieces issuing from a reversed oliphant or on the dexter side and faulted on the sinister side in the center of the shield, and sinistered by a cypress vert trunked or, the animal and the tree placed on an isolated terrace vert.

Population

Historical population
Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1793 1,395 —     1800 568 −12.05% 1806 1,329 +15.22% 1821 1,437 +0.52% 1831 1,805 +2.31% 1836 2,033 +2.41% 1841 2,607 +5.10% 1846 3,281 +4.71% 1851 4,022 +4.16% 1856 5,686 +7.17% 1861 6,817 +3.69% 1866 848 −34.09% 1872 970 +2.27% 1876 1,080 +2.72% 1881 1,264 +3.20% 1886 1,767 +6.93% 1891 2,199 +4.47% 1896 2,587 +3.30%	Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1901 3,556 +6.57% 1906 3,817 +1.43% 1911 4,806 +4.72% 1921 6,650 +3.30% 1926 8,153 +4.16% 1931 9,700 +3.54% 1936 10,087 +0.79% 1946 10,051 −0.04% 1954 10,747 +0.84% 1962 13,821 +3.19% 1968 17,713 +4.22% 1975 24,769 +4.91% 1982 23,520 −0.74% 1990 21,363 −1.20% 1999 21,283 −0.04% 2007 22,732 +0.83% 2012 22,385 −0.31% 2017 24,729 +2.01%
Source: EHESS[3] and INSEE (1968-2017)[4]

See also

• Communes of the Gironde department

References

1. "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 2 December 2020.
2. "Populations de référence 2022" (in French). National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 19 December 2024.
3. Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Cenon, EHESS (in French).
4. Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE

External links

• Official website (in French)