Fay-de-Bretagne

Commune in Pays de la Loire, France

Fay-de-Bretagne Faè/Faï (Gallo) Faouell (Breton)
Commune
War memorial
Coat of arms
Location of Fay-de-Bretagne
(2020–2026)		Claude Labarre^[1]
Area ¹	64.81 km² (25.02 sq mi)
Population (2021)^[2]	3,750
• Density	58/km² (150/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	44056 /44130
Elevation	18–87 m (59–285 ft)
¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Fay-de-Bretagne (French pronunciation: [fɛ də bʁətaɲ] ^ⓘ, literally Fay of Brittany; Gallo: Faè or Faï, Breton: Faouell) is a commune in the Loire-Atlantique department in western France.

Population

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1793	3,100	—
1821	3,203	+0.12%
1846	4,060	+0.95%
1872	3,669	−0.39%
1901	3,521	−0.14%
1926	2,786	−0.93%
1946	2,249	−1.06%
1962	2,172	−0.22%

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1968	2,109	−0.49%
1975	1,947	−1.14%
1982	2,175	+1.59%
1990	2,388	+1.17%
1999	2,489	+0.46%
2007	2,911	+1.98%
2012	3,386	+3.07%
2017	3,618	+1.33%

Source: EHESS^[3] and INSEE (1968-2017)^[4]

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.
^ Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Fay-de-Bretagne, EHESS (in French).
^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE