Noyal-sur-Vilaine

Noyal-sur-Vilaine Noyal/Nouyal (Gallo) Noal-ar-Gwilen (Breton)
Commune
The town hall of Noyal-sur-Vilaine
Coat of arms
Location of Noyal-sur-Vilaine
Noyal-sur-Vilaine Noyal-sur-Vilaine
Coordinates: 48°06′45″N 1°31′24″W
Country	France
Region	Brittany
Department	Ille-et-Vilaine
Arrondissement	Rennes
Canton	Châteaugiron
Intercommunality	Pays de Châteaugiron
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Marielle Muret-Baudoin
Area 1	30.72 km2 (11.86 sq mi)
Population  (2021)	6,116
• Density	200/km2 (520/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	35207 /35530
Elevation	32–91 m (105–299 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Noyal-sur-Vilaine (French pronunciation: [nwajal syʁ vilɛn]; Gallo: Noyal or Nouyal, Breton: Noal-ar-Gwilen) is a commune in the Ille-et-Vilaine department of Brittany in northwestern France.

Geography

Noyal is some ten kilometres east of Rennes.

Adjacent communes:

• Acigné,
• Brécé,
• Cesson-Sévigné,
• Domloup,
• Châteaugiron,
• Servon-sur-Vilaine,
• Ossé,
• Domagné.

Population

Inhabitants of Noyal-sur-Vilaine are called noyalais in French.

Historical population

Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1836 3,004 —     1891 2,539 −0.31% 1921 2,114 −0.61% 1962 2,188 +0.08% 1968 2,518 +2.37% 1975 2,953 +2.30%	Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1982 3,835 +3.80% 1990 4,091 +0.81% 1999 4,705 +1.57% 2007 5,012 +0.79% 2012 5,526 +1.97% 2017 6,008 +1.69%
Source: EHESS and INSEE (1968-2017)

See also

• Communes of the Ille-et-Vilaine department

External links

• Base Mérimée: Search for heritage in the commune, Ministère français de la Culture. (in French)
• Mayors of Ille-et-Vilaine Association (in French)