Gières

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Commune in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

Coat of arms

Location of Gières

(2020–2026) Pierre Verri^[1]Area

6.93 km² (2.68 sq mi)Population

(2021)^[2]

7,161 • Density1,000/km² (2,700/sq mi)Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)INSEE/Postal code

38179 /38610

Elevation205–660 m (673–2,165 ft)¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Gières (French pronunciation: [ʒjɛʁ] ^ⓘ; Arpitan: Giére) is a commune in the Isère department in southeastern France. It is part of the Grenoble urban unit (agglomeration).^[3] The archaeologist Joseph Chamonard (1866–1936) died in Gières. Grenoble-Universités-Gières station has rail connections to Grenoble, Chambéry and Valence.

Population

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1793	910	—
1800	1,001	+1.37%
1806	1,039	+0.62%
1821	1,098	+0.37%
1831	1,153	+0.49%
1836	1,146	−0.12%
1841	1,162	+0.28%
1846	1,208	+0.78%
1851	1,185	−0.38%
1856	1,164	−0.36%
1861	1,111	−0.93%
1866	1,202	+1.59%
1872	1,163	−0.55%
1876	1,143	−0.43%
1881	1,112	−0.55%
1886	1,142	+0.53%
1891	1,133	−0.16%
1896	1,134	+0.02%

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1901	1,031	−1.89%
1906	1,063	+0.61%
1911	1,078	+0.28%
1921	1,041	−0.35%
1926	1,166	+2.29%
1931	1,287	+1.99%
1936	1,308	+0.32%
1946	1,320	+0.09%
1954	1,624	+2.62%
1962	1,846	+1.61%
1968	2,801	+7.20%
1975	3,346	+2.57%
1982	4,005	+2.60%
1990	4,373	+1.10%
1999	6,127	+3.82%
2007	6,161	+0.07%
2012	6,200	+0.13%
2017	6,779	+1.80%

Source: EHESS^[4] and INSEE (1968-2017)^[5]

Twin towns

Gières is twinned with:

Vignate, Italy, since 1980
Independencia, Peru, since 1989 ^[6]
Certeze, Romania, since 1990
Bethlehem, Palestine, since 1996

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.
^ Unité urbaine 2020 de Grenoble (38701), INSEE
^ Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Gières, EHESS (in French).
^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
^ "Pérou". Gières (in French). Retrieved 8 November 2017.