INSEE published a survey on December 29, reporting the population census from 2013 to 2019.
The Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region appears to be the second most populous in France, just behind Ile-de-France.
The Rhône department is the most populous in the region, the city of Annecy has the strongest growth, while medium-sized towns like Roanne are losing inhabitants.
According to a summary published by INSEE on December 29, 2021, the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region exceeded the threshold of 8 million inhabitants on January 1, 2019: exactly 8,043,000, against 7,757,595 in 2013. The second France's most populous region continues its demographic growth with an average of + 0.6% per year since 2013, slightly higher than the national average.
However, this growth is slowing down due to the aging of the population.
These figures stop in 2019 due to the health crisis, since the annual census which was to be held in 2021 has been postponed to 2022. They therefore do not take into account the impact of Covid-19, which had consequences notable on the distribution of populations.
However, they do allow us to observe clear differences between the metropolises and the cities of the region.
Which are the fastest growing metropolises?
Unsurprisingly, the Rhône department remains the most populous in the region, with 1,892,753 inhabitants on January 1, 2021. It is followed by that of Isère (1,271,166) and Puy-de-Dôme (662,152).
The metropolis of Lyon alone has 1,411,571 inhabitants, against 1.3 million in 2013. Intramural Lyon is home to 529,570 inhabitants, against 509,233 in 2013. Growth is 0.9% in the Rhône between 2013 and 2019: it is is as much as in the department of Ain.
In the metropolis of Grenoble, INSEE records 1,271,166 inhabitants (+ 0.5%), while the city itself loses a few inhabitants: 160,441 against 162,780 in 2013. The metropolis of Saint-Etienne has 765,634 inhabitants ( + 0.2%), with an increase in the town itself: 175,792 against 174,985 in 2013. The largest increase concerns the department of Haute-Savoie, with a growth of 1.2% and 826,094 inhabitants recorded, against 0.5 % in Savoy with 436,434 inhabitants.
What about big cities?
“The areas with the greatest potential for demographic growth are located on the outskirts of large cities,” adds INSEE, which specifies that “the demographic dynamic concerns in particular the crowns of the areas of attraction of cities, a consequence of the phenomenon of peri-urbanization which continues ".
Thanks to a regrouping of municipalities in January 2017, Annecy recorded a notable increase in its population: 134,101 inhabitants in 2019 against 54,087 in 2013. Annecy also benefits from its location on the Clermont-Lyon-Geneva economic axis.
Located to the south of this axis, Chambéry, it loses a few inhabitants, going from 60,575 to 60,478.
At the heart of the Rhône corridor, Valence, in the Drôme, owes its growth of 0.7% over the past six years to the arrival of new inhabitants attracted by its economic dynamism: it now has 66,149, against 63,258 in 2013.
What about peripheral towns?
The medium-sized towns, for their part, tend to lose inhabitants, who have left for peri-urban municipalities: Roanne (Loire), which has shown a decline in its population for several years, thus goes from 36,749 to 34,547.
The erosion of the natural balance (difference between the number of births and deaths) is also a cause of this demographic decrease.
Villefranche-sur-Saône (Rhône) is also down, going from 37,084 to 36,710 inhabitants.
In contrast, Vienne (Isère) recorded growth of 0.4%.
Note that throughout the Auvergne Rhône-Alpes region, only the departments of Cantal and Allier lost inhabitants between 2013 and 2019.
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