Sérignan-du-Comtat

Commune in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France

Sérignan-du-Comtat Serinhan dau Comtat (Occitan)
Commune
Sérignan-du-Comtat Town Hall
Coat of arms
Location of Sérignan-du-Comtat
(2020–2026)		Julien Merle^[1]
Area ¹	19.82 km² (7.65 sq mi)
Population (2021)^[2]	2,866
• Density	140/km² (370/sq mi)
Demonym	Sérignanais
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	84127 /84830
Elevation	53–240 m (174–787 ft) (avg. 80 m or 260 ft)
Website	serignanducomtat.fr
¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Sérignan-du-Comtat (French pronunciation: [seʁiɲɑ̃ dy kɔ̃ta]; Occitan: Serinhan dau Comtat) is a commune in the Vaucluse department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in Southeastern France. Until 1944, it was known simply as Sérignan.^[3] In 2020, it had a population of 2,856.

On 1 January 2017, together with a number of neighbouring communes, it was transferred from the arrondissement of Avignon to the arrondissement of Carpentras.^[3]

The entomologist Jean-Henri Fabre (1823–1915) died in Sérignan-du-Comtat.

Demographics

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1968	1,194	—
1975	1,488	+3.19%
1982	1,975	+4.13%
1990	2,069	+0.58%
1999	2,254	+0.96%
2007	2,414	+0.86%
2012	2,448	+0.28%
2017	2,676	+1.80%
Source: INSEE^[4]

Points of interest

Harmas de Fabre
Musée-Atelier Werner Lichtner-Aix^[5]

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.
^ ^a ^b (in French) Commune de Sérignan-du-Comtat (84127), INSEE.
^ (in French) Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE.
^ (in French) Le Musée Lichtner-Aix, www.serignanducomtat.fr.