Tournefeuille

This article is about the Commune of Tournefeuille. For Château Tournefeuille, see Château Tournefeuille.

Tournefeuille
Commune
The church in Tournefeuille
Coat of arms
Location of Tournefeuille
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Coordinates: 43°35′07″N 1°20′39″E / 43.5853°N 1.3442°E / 43.5853; 1.3442
Country	France
Region	Occitania
Department	Haute-Garonne
Arrondissement	Toulouse
Canton	Tournefeuille
Intercommunality	Toulouse Métropole
Government
• Mayor (2024–2026)	Frédéric Parre[1]
Area ^1	18.17 km^2 (7.02 sq mi)
Population  (2022)[2]	29,724
• Density	1,636/km^2 (4,237/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	31557 /31170
Elevation	146–190 m (479–623 ft) (avg. 140 m or 460 ft)
^1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km^2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Tournefeuille (French pronunciation: [tuʁnəfœj]; Languedocien: Tornafuèlha) is a commune in the Haute-Garonne department in southwestern France.

It is the second-largest suburb of the city of Toulouse, and is adjacent to it on the west side. It is a member of the Toulouse Métropole.

Toponymy

Tournefeuille, on the left bank of the Garonne, is located in the linguistic area of Gascon Occitan of the eastern variant, of essentially oral expression linked to a rurality dependent on the domination of Toulouse of Languedocian culture.

The French toponym Tournefeuille is put in Occitan in graphic correspondence with: Torna Fuèlha in Languedoc, Torna Huelha in local Gascon, without semantic relevance. Tournefeuille would be rendered by Vira Fuèlha in Occitan.

Torna Auelha /Oelha ['turnɔ (a)'weʎɔ] means "bring back sheep".

The verbs tornar and virar, related to tourner and virer, do not have the same meanings in Occitan. tornar means to return, to turn over, to bring back, and tourner is virar.

As for the second element, it would be a phonetic confusion between the Gascon words huelha "leaf" and auelha/oelha "sheep", homophones in case of elision of the initial "H" of the connected determiner.

Geography

The Touch flows northeast through the commune and crosses the town.

Population

Historical population
Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1793 535 —     1800 522 −0.35% 1806 530 +0.25% 1821 706 +1.93% 1831 737 +0.43% 1836 725 −0.33% 1841 737 +0.33% 1846 764 +0.72% 1851 769 +0.13% 1856 682 −2.37% 1861 720 +1.09% 1866 735 +0.41% 1872 702 −0.76% 1876 799 +3.29% 1881 761 −0.97% 1886 791 +0.78% 1891 775 −0.41% 1896 771 −0.10% 1901 808 +0.94%	Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1906 824 +0.39% 1911 785 −0.97% 1921 829 +0.55% 1926 864 +0.83% 1931 972 +2.38% 1936 999 +0.55% 1946 1,295 +2.63% 1954 1,577 +2.49% 1962 2,209 +4.30% 1968 3,438 +7.65% 1975 5,291 +6.35% 1982 8,541 +7.08% 1990 16,669 +8.72% 1999 22,758 +3.52% 2007 25,709 +1.54% 2012 26,342 +0.49% 2017 26,962 +0.47% 2022 29,724 +1.97%
Source: EHESS[3] and INSEE (1968-2017)[4]

The inhabitants of the commune are known as Tournefeuillais and Tournefeuillaises.

Twin towns

Tournefeuille is currently twinned with Graus in Spain.

Sport

Tournefeuille's football club is famous for being Manchester City's Gaël Clichy's youth team.

See also

• Communes of the Haute-Garonne department

References

1. "Répertoire national des élus: les maires" (in French). data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 12 March 2025.
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 Tournefeuille, EHESS (in French).
4. Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE

External links

• Official site