Bretteville-sur-Odon

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Commune in Normandy, France

Coat of arms

Location of Bretteville-sur-Odon

(2020–2026) Patrick Lecaplain^[1]Area

6.46 km² (2.49 sq mi)Population

(2021)^[2]

4,148 • Density640/km² (1,700/sq mi)Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)INSEE/Postal code

14101 /14760

Elevation5–72 m (16–236 ft)
(avg. 15 m or 49 ft)¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Bretteville-sur-Odon (French pronunciation: [bʁɛtvil syʁ ɔdɔ̃] ^ⓘ, literally Bretteville on Odon) is a commune in the department of Calvados in the Normandy region in northwestern France. It lies on the river Odon, about 5 km (3.1 mi) west of Caen.

Population

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1793	544	—
1800	559	+0.39%
1806	618	+1.69%
1821	752	+1.32%
1831	756	+0.05%
1836	801	+1.16%
1841	804	+0.07%
1846	784	−0.50%
1851	803	+0.48%
1856	803	+0.00%
1861	817	+0.35%
1866	795	−0.54%
1872	758	−0.79%
1876	732	−0.87%
1881	737	+0.14%
1886	671	−1.86%
1891	634	−1.13%
1896	682	+1.47%

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1901	556	−4.00%
1906	631	+2.56%
1911	651	+0.63%
1921	660	+0.14%
1926	652	−0.24%
1931	755	+2.98%
1936	726	−0.78%
1946	760	+0.46%
1954	1,807	+11.43%
1962	1,232	−4.68%
1968	2,182	+10.00%
1975	2,466	+1.76%
1982	3,326	+4.37%
1990	3,623	+1.07%
1999	3,951	+0.97%
2007	4,105	+0.48%
2012	3,900	−1.02%
2017	3,833	−0.35%

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

Twin towns

Woodbury, Devon, UK since 1978
Glattbach, Germany since 1987
Ouonck CR, Sénégal since 1997

References

^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 2 December 2020.
^ "Populations légales 2021" (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
^ Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Bretteville-sur-Odon, EHESS (in French).
^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE