Mettray

Mettray
Commune
Coat of arms
Location of Mettray
Mettray Mettray
Coordinates: 47°27′10″N 0°38′57″E
Country	France
Region	Centre-Val de Loire
Department	Indre-et-Loire
Arrondissement	Tours
Canton	Vouvray
Intercommunality	Tours Métropole Val de Loire
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Philippe Clémot
Area 1	10.34 km2 (3.99 sq mi)
Population  (2021)	2,062
• Density	200/km2 (520/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	37152 /37390
Elevation	57–100 m (187–328 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Mettray (French pronunciation: [mɛtʁɛ] ^ⓘ) is a commune in the Indre-et-Loire department in central France. The Mettray Penal Colony was opened there in 1839.

Population

The inhabitants are called Mettrayens in French. The commune La Membrolle-sur-Choisille was created in 1873 from part of Mettray.

Historical population

Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1793 1,017 —     1800 1,089 +0.98% 1806 1,247 +2.28% 1821 846 −2.55% 1831 1,212 +3.66% 1836 1,294 +1.32% 1841 1,460 +2.44% 1846 1,960 +6.07% 1851 2,090 +1.29% 1856 2,176 +0.81% 1861 2,311 +1.21% 1866 2,517 +1.72% 1872 2,344 −1.18% 1876 1,615 −8.89% 1881 1,413 −2.64% 1886 1,416 +0.04% 1891 1,461 +0.63% 1896 1,399 −0.86%	Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1901 1,324 −1.10% 1906 1,196 −2.01% 1911 1,243 +0.77% 1921 1,110 −1.13% 1926 1,163 +0.94% 1931 1,205 +0.71% 1936 1,280 +1.21% 1946 737 −5.37% 1954 983 +3.67% 1962 1,036 +0.66% 1968 1,021 −0.24% 1975 1,083 +0.85% 1982 1,368 +3.39% 1990 1,916 +4.30% 1999 2,029 +0.64% 2007 1,951 −0.49% 2012 2,088 +1.37% 2017 2,068 −0.19%
Source: EHESS and INSEE (1968-2017)

See also

• Communes of the Indre-et-Loire department