Saint-Léger-le-Petit

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Commune in Centre-Val de Loire, France

Saint-Léger-le-Petit
Commune
Location of Saint-Léger-le-Petit
(2020–2026)		Aurélie Garnaud^[1]
Area ¹	10.05 km² (3.88 sq mi)
Population (2021)^[2]	345
• Density	34/km² (89/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	18220 /18140
Elevation	157–195 m (515–640 ft) (avg. 180 m or 590 ft)
¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Saint-Léger-le-Petit (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ leʒe lə pəti]) is a commune in the Cher department in central France.

Population

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±%
1962	407	—
1968	438	+7.6%
1975	386	−11.9%
1982	324	−16.1%
1990	330	+1.9%
1999	352	+6.7%
2008	397	+12.8%

Urban planning

Typology

Saint-Léger-le-Petit is a rural commune. It is one of the communes with low or very low population density, as defined by the Insee communal density grid.

The commune is also part of the Nevers catchment area, of which it is an outlying commune. This area, which comprises 93 communes, is categorized as having between 50,000 and less than 200,000 inhabitants.

Land use

The commune's land use, as revealed by the European biophysical land cover database Corine Land Cover (CLC), is marked by the importance of agricultural land (61.5% in 2018), a proportion identical to that of 1990 (61.5%). The detailed breakdown in 2018 is as follows: arable land (42.5%), forests (36.8%), heterogeneous agricultural areas (11.5%), grasslands (7.5%), urbanized areas (1.3%), continental waters (0.4%), shrub and/or herbaceous vegetation (0.1%).

The evolution of the commune's land use and infrastructure can be observed on various cartographic representations of the territory: the Cassini map (18th century), the staff map (1820-1866) and IGN maps or aerial photos for the current period (1950 to present).

References

^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 9 August 2021.
^ "Populations légales 2021". The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.