Abscon

Abscon
Town hall
Abscon
Location within Nord-Pas-de-Calais region  Abscon
Administration
Country	France
Region	Nord-Pas-de-Calais
Department	Nord
Arrondissement	Valenciennes
Canton	Denain
Intercommunality	Porte du Hainaut
Mayor	Gilbert Défossé (2008–2014)
Statistics
Elevation	38–64 m (125–210 ft) (avg. 59 m or 194 ft)
Land area1	7.27 km2 (2.81 sq mi)
Population2	4,225  (2009)
- Density	581 /km2 (1,500 /sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	59002/ 59215
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Abscon is a commune in the Nord department in northern France.

Population

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±%
1800	425	—
1806	502	+18.1%
1821	675	+34.5%
1831	939	+39.1%
1836	997	+6.2%
1841	1,221	+22.5%
1846	1,344	+10.1%
1851	1,464	+8.9%
1856	1,630	+11.3%
1861	1,608	−1.3%
1866	1,650	+2.6%
1872	2,280	+38.2%
1876	2,745	+20.4%
1881	2,996	+9.1%
1886	2,948	−1.6%
1891	2,810	−4.7%
1896	2,919	+3.9%
1901	2,912	−0.2%
1906	3,053	+4.8%
1911	3,250	+6.5%
1921	3,150	−3.1%
1926	4,359	+38.4%
1931	4,308	−1.2%
1936	4,244	−1.5%
1946	4,289	+1.1%
1954	4,445	+3.6%
1962	4,819	+8.4%
1968	4,899	+1.7%
1975	4,636	−5.4%
1982	4,213	−9.1%
1990	3,954	−6.1%
1999	4,136	+4.6%
2006	4,152	+0.4%
2009	4,225	+1.8%

Heraldry

The arms of Abscon are blazoned : Or, on an escarbuncle sable a ruby gules. (Abscon, Beuvry-la-Forêt, Erre, Fenain, Marchiennes, Ronchin, Tilloy-lez-Marchiennes and Wandignies-Hamage use the same arms)

See also

• Communes of the Nord department

References

• INSEE commune file