Vertou

Commune in Pays de la Loire, France

Vertou Vertou (Gallo) Gwerzhav (Breton)
Commune
The château du Portillon and the edge of the Sèvre Nantaise
Coat of arms
Location of Vertou
(2020–2026)		Rodolphe Amailland^[1]
Area ¹	35.68 km² (13.78 sq mi)
Population (2021)^[2]	26,002
• Density	730/km² (1,900/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	44215 /44120
Elevation	1–56 m (3.3–183.7 ft)
¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Vertou (French pronunciation: [vɛʁtu] ^ⓘ; Breton: Gwerzhav) is a commune in the Loire-Atlantique department in western France.

It is located on the river Sèvre Nantaise, and was a historical town of Brittany.

Today, Vertou is a component of the Nantes Métropole and is the fifth-largest suburb of the city of Nantes, lying just southeast of Nantes. Vertou station has rail connections to Clisson and Nantes.

Population

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1793	5,200	—
1800	3,260	−6.45%
1806	4,461	+5.37%
1821	5,773	+1.73%
1831	5,686	−0.15%
1841	5,635	−0.09%
1846	5,635	+0.00%
1851	5,949	+1.09%
1856	6,015	+0.22%
1861	6,313	+0.97%
1866	5,706	−2.00%
1872	5,588	−0.35%
1876	5,471	−0.53%
1881	5,376	−0.35%
1886	5,455	+0.29%
1891	5,602	+0.53%
1896	5,321	−1.02%
1901	5,388	+0.25%

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1906	5,464	+0.28%
1911	5,490	+0.09%
1921	5,716	+0.40%
1926	6,142	+1.45%
1931	6,330	+0.60%
1936	6,877	+1.67%
1946	7,985	+1.51%
1954	9,223	+1.82%
1962	11,100	+2.34%
1968	12,089	+1.43%
1975	13,853	+1.96%
1982	15,631	+1.74%
1990	18,235	+1.94%
1999	20,268	+1.18%
2007	21,199	+0.56%
2012	22,307	+1.02%
2017	24,219	+1.66%

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

Twin towns – sister cities

Vertou is twinned with:^[5]

Morges, Switzerland
Poděbrady, Czech Republic

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 Vertou, EHESS (in French).
^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
^ "Relations internationales". vertou.fr (in French). Vertou. Retrieved 13 April 2021.