Saint-Victoret

Saint-Victoret
Saint-Victoret
Administration
Country	France
Region	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Department	Bouches-du-Rhône
Arrondissement	Istres
Canton	Marignane
Intercommunality	Marseille Provence Métropole
Mayor	Claude Piccirillo (2008–2014)
Statistics
Elevation	15–120 m (49–390 ft) (avg. 26 m or 85 ft)
Land area1	4.73 km2 (1.83 sq mi)
Population2	6,536  (2008)
- Density	1,382 /km2 (3,580 /sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	13102/ 13730
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.

Saint-Victoret is a commune in the Bouches-du-Rhône department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southern France. It is located northwest of Marseille.

Saint-Victoret is a small market town situated just next to Marignane, not far from the airport and just a few kilometres from the eastern shore of the Étang de Berre. If you take the secondary road D20 to Saint-Victoret, you first pass through the hamlet of Pas-des-Lanciers. Here you will find a small, lively district with a few shops and an SNCF railway station for the transport of goods and freight to the airport. In the roads parallel to the D20 there are some pretty little villas which were built before the airport.

Two kilometres beyond Pas-des-Lanciers you will come to the centre of Saint Victoret. With its new housing blocks, roundabouts planted with flowers, a media library and a cultural centre, the heart of the village is well laid out and pleasantly floral. You may feel as though you have arrived in the new village of Saint Victoret, since everything looks so recent. Nevertheless, the village makes the most of what historic heritage there is, with several chapels, churches and pretty fountains.

The history and life of Saint-Victoret are closely linked with the activities of the airport in every respect. There is one Saint-Victoret before the airport and another after the airport ... the proximity of the airport has enormous repercussions for the village. First and foremost is obviously the incessant noise of aeroplanes landing at the airport. How bearable the noise is depends on which district of Saint-Victoret you are in (some districts lie directly beneath the flight path to the landing strip).

In terms of employment, real estate and, above all, the revival of the local economy, the airport has certainly had a very real impact on Saint-Victoret... both in a positive and a negative sense. In terms of tourism, large numbers of visitors see Saint Victoret... but only from the air!

Population

Historical population of Saint-Victoret

Year	1793	1800	1806	1821	1831	1836	1841	1846	1851	1856
Population	240	236	258	264	264	298	348	503	442	501

Year	1861	1866	1872	1876	1881	1886	1891	1896	1901	1906
Population	528	500	470	473	458	484	493	531	504	546

Year	1911	1921	1926	1931	1936	1946	1954	1962	1968	1975
Population	543	590	698	864	1050	1524	2532	3605	4880	5436

Year	1982	1990	1999	2008
Population	5571	6047	6810	6536

See also

• Communes of the Bouches-du-Rhône department

References

• INSEE