Saint-Maurice-de-Beynost

Saint-Maurice-de-Beynost
Town hall
Town hall
Coat of arms of Saint-Maurice-de-Beynost
Location of Saint-Maurice-de-Beynost
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Saint-Maurice-de-Beynost is located in France
Saint-Maurice-de-Beynost
Saint-Maurice-de-Beynost
Saint-Maurice-de-Beynost is located in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Saint-Maurice-de-Beynost
Saint-Maurice-de-Beynost
Coordinates: 45°50′00″N 4°58′00″E / 45.8333°N 4.9667°E / 45.8333; 4.9667
CountryFrance
RegionAuvergne-Rhône-Alpes
DepartmentAin
ArrondissementBourg-en-Bresse
CantonMiribel
IntercommunalityCC de Miribel et du Plateau
Government
 • Mayor (2020–2026) Pierre Goubet[1]
Area
1
6.99 km2 (2.70 sq mi)
Population
 (2021)[2]
4,155
 • Density590/km2 (1,500/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code
01376 /01700
Elevation172–315 m (564–1,033 ft)
(avg. 200 m or 660 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Saint-Maurice-de-Beynost (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ mɔʁis beno] ; literally "Saint-Maurice of Beynost") is a commune in the Ain department, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, located at about 15 km (9 mi) from Lyon.

The commune is included in the canton of Miribel and in the intercommunality of communauté de communes de Miribel et du Plateau.

A small farming village at the beginning of the 20th century, the commune of Saint-Maurice-de-Beynost became an industrial town in the 1920s, following the construction of the second textile factory of the "Lyon Society of Artificial Silk". The need for workers in this factory led to a quadrupling of the population in just five years, between 1926 and 1931. Today, the factory, which belongs to the Japanese group Toray Industries, is still the main employer in the city with nearly five hundred employees.

The inhabitants of Saint-Maurice-de-Beynost are called Mauriciens.

  1. ^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 2 December 2020. Archived from the original on 28 June 2020. Retrieved 24 March 2021.
  2. ^ "Populations légales 2021" (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.