Annonay-Rhône-Agglo is a conurbation community created in 2017 in the north of the Ardèche department. Here’s a quick look at the area in text, figures and video.
Annonay-Rhône Agglo ?
Since the beginning of 2017, the Annonay conurbation, the Vivarhone community of communes and several communes in the Val-d’Ay have formed a single authority.
Situated between the Vivarais mountains and the Rhône river in the Ardèche department of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, the Annonay Rhône Agglo area is ideally located just a stone’s throw from the Rhône valley towards Lyon in the north, Valence in the south and at the foot of the Pilat regional nature park towards Saint-Etienne.
As well as its geographical assets, the region also boasts a thriving cultural and industrial history, which has focused on innovation for several centuries, and a heritage that is unique in the Ardèche, combining tradition and modernity.
50 years of history in just a few minutes
Administratively, this area corresponds to the Annonay-Rhône Agglo, a new local authority created in 2017 from the merger of the VivaRhône community of municipalities and the Annonay Agglo conurbation community.
Annonay Rhône Agglo is now a conurbation stretching from the gateway to Pilat to the banks of the Rhône, between the rivers Cance, Deûme and Limony.
At the heart of this conurbation is the town of Annonay, the largest commune in the Ardèche department and the main urban centre of Annonay-Rhône.
The communes of Annonay-Rhône Agglo
The Ardèche Nord conurbation is made up of 29 communes (towns and villages) covering its entire territory:
48,798 inhabitants (INSEE 2019 figures), an area of 316 km2 with 154 inhabitants per km2 in the 29 towns and villages.
Here is the list of the 29 communes that make up this conurbation in Ardèche Nord in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region:
- Annonay
- Ardoix
- Bogy
- Boulieu-les-Annonay
- Brossainc
- Charnas
- Colombier-le-Cardinal
- Davézieux
- Félines
- Le Monestier
- Limony
- Peaugres
- Quintenas
- Roiffieux
- Saint-Désirat
- Saint-Clair
- Saint-Cyr
- Saint-Jacques-d’Atticieux
- Saint-Julien-Vocance
- Saint-Marcel-lès-Annonay
- Savas
- Serrières
- Talencieux
- Thorrenc
- Vanosc
- Vernosc-les-annonay
- Villevocance
- Vinzieux
- Vocance
Transport in Annonay-Rhône
The conurbation has its own public transport network, Coqueligo, as well as a bus station for departmental and regional connections (Ardèche, Loire, Isère, Drôme, Lyon):
Map of the Annonay-Rhône conurbation
In addition, here is a list of all the municipalities in the conurbation in maps and figures (surface area, density and number of inhabitants):
In association with Annonay-Rhône
About Annonay Rhône Agglo and the communes in the area :
- 41st Annonay First Film Festival in Ardèche
- Bus line X75: Annonay, Le-Péage-de-Roussillon, Lyon
- Coqueligo, bus and public transport in Annonay Rhône Agglo
- Where to swim? Aquatic centres and swimming pools in North Ardèche and Annonay
- Aquavaure, aquatic centre and swimming pools in Annonay
- Where to swim? Bodies of water and lakes in North Ardèche and around Annonay
- Canson and Montgolfier, 450 years of paper history in Annonay
- Galléliaure, Cance swimming pool
- INSEE statistics for the metropolitan area