Arrondissement of Rodez

The **arrondissement of Rodez** is an arrondissement of France.  It is part of the Aveyron _département_ in the Occitanie region. Its capital, and préfecture of the department, is the city of Rodez.

## History

When the _arrondissements_ were created in 1800, Rodez was one of them in the Aveyron department.

## Geography

It is the most northern of the _arrondissements_ of the department with an area of , the largest in area, and the most populated of the department with 143,841 inhabitants and a population density of  inhabitants/km².

The _arrondissement_ is bordered to the north by the Cantal (Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes) department, to the east by the Lozère (Occitanie) department, to the southwest and to the south by the _arrondissement_ of Millau, and to the west by the Tarn (Occitanie) department and by the _arrondissement_ of Villefranche-de-Rouergue.

### Cantons

After the reorganisation of the cantons in France, cantons are not subdivisions of the _arrondissements_ so they could have _communes_ that belong to different _arrondissements_.

In the _arrondissement_ of Rodez, there are only four cantons where not all their "communes" are in the _arrondissement_: Aveyron et Tarn, Enne et Alzou, Lot et Dourdou and Raspes et Lévezou. The following table shows the distribution of the "communes" in the cantons and _arrondissements_:

|INSEE Code || Canton || Millau || Rodez || Villefranche- de-Rouergue || Total||||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1201|Aubrac et Carladez||21||**21**|
|1202|Aveyron et Tarn||5|12|**17**|
|1203|Causse-Comtal||7||**7**|
|1205|Ceor-Ségala||18||**18**|
|1206|Enne et Alzou||8|3|**11**|
|1207|Lot et Dourdou||3|8|**11**|
|1209|Lot et Palanges||13||**13**|
|1210|Lot et Truyère||14||**14**|
|1213|Monts du Réquistanais||14||**14**|
|1214|Nord-Lévezou||4||**4**|
|1215|Raspes et Lévezou|16|6||**22**|
|1216|Rodez-1||part of Rodez||part of Rodez|
|1217|Rodez-2||1 + part of Rodez||**1** + part of Rodez|
|1218|Rodez-Onet||1 + part of Rodez||**1** + part of Rodez|
|1221|Vallon||11||**11**|

### Communes

The _arrondissement_ of Rodez has 127 _communes_; they are (with their INSEE codes):

1. Agen-d'Aveyron <small>(12001)</small>
1. Anglars-Saint-Félix <small>(12008)</small>
1. Argences-en-Aubrac <small>(12223)</small>
1. Arques <small>(12010)</small>
1. Arvieu <small>(12011)</small>
1. Auriac-Lagast <small>(12015)</small>
1. Auzits <small>(12016)</small>
1. Balsac <small>(12020)</small>
1. Baraqueville <small>(12056)</small>
1. Belcastel <small>(12024)</small>
1. Bertholène <small>(12026)</small>
1. Bessuéjouls <small>(12027)</small>
1. Bournazel <small>(12031)</small>
1. Boussac <small>(12032)</small>
1. Bozouls <small>(12033)</small>
1. Brommat <small>(12036)</small>
1. Cabanès <small>(12041)</small>
1. Calmont <small>(12043)</small>
1. Camboulazet <small>(12045)</small>
1. Camjac <small>(12046)</small>
1. Campouriez <small>(12048)</small>
1. Campuac <small>(12049)</small>
1. Canet-de-Salars <small>(12050)</small>
1. Cantoin <small>(12051)</small>
1. Cassagnes-Bégonhès <small>(12057)</small>
1. Cassuéjouls <small>(12058)</small>
1. Castanet <small>(12059)</small>
1. Castelmary <small>(12060)</small>
1. Castelnau-de-Mandailles <small>(12061)</small>
1. Le Cayrol <small>(12064)</small>
1. Centrès <small>(12065)</small>
1. Clairvaux-d'Aveyron <small>(12066)</small>
1. Colombiès <small>(12068)</small>
1. Comps-la-Grand-Ville <small>(12073)</small>
1. Condom-d'Aubrac <small>(12074)</small>
1. Connac <small>(12075)</small>
1. Conques-en-Rouergue <small>(12076)</small>
1. Coubisou <small>(12079)</small>
1. Crespin <small>(12085)</small>
1. Curières <small>(12088)</small>
1. Druelle <small>(12090)</small>
1. Durenque <small>(12092)</small>
1. Entraygues-sur-Truyère <small>(12094)</small>
1. Escandolières <small>(12095)</small>
1. Espalion <small>(12096)</small>
1. Espeyrac <small>(12097)</small>
1. Estaing <small>(12098)</small>
1. Le Fel <small>(12093)</small>
1. Flavin <small>(12102)</small>
1. Florentin-la-Capelle <small>(12103)</small>
1. Gabriac <small>(12106)</small>
1. Gaillac-d'Aveyron <small>(12107)</small>
1. Golinhac <small>(12110)</small>
1. Goutrens <small>(12111)</small>
1. Gramond <small>(12113)</small>
1. Huparlac <small>(12116)</small>
1. Lacroix-Barrez <small>(12118)</small>
1. Laguiole <small>(12119)</small>
1. Laissac-Sévérac-l'Église <small>(12120)</small>
1. Lassouts <small>(12124)</small>
1. Lédergues <small>(12127)</small>
1. Lescure-Jaoul <small>(12128)</small>
1. La Loubière <small>(12131)</small>
1. Luc-la-Primaube <small>(12133)</small>
1. Manhac <small>(12137)</small>
1. Marcillac-Vallon <small>(12138)</small>
1. Mayran <small>(12142)</small>
1. Meljac <small>(12144)</small>
1. Le Monastère <small>(12146)</small>
1. Montézic <small>(12151)</small>
1. Montpeyroux <small>(12156)</small>
1. Montrozier <small>(12157)</small>
1. Mouret <small>(12161)</small>
1. Moyrazès <small>(12162)</small>
1. Mur-de-Barrez <small>(12164)</small>
1. Muret-le-Château <small>(12165)</small>
1. Murols <small>(12166)</small>
1. Naucelle <small>(12169)</small>
1. Nauviale <small>(12171)</small>
1. Le Nayrac <small>(12172)</small>
1. Olemps <small>(12174)</small>
1. Onet-le-Château <small>(12176)</small>
1. Palmas-d'Aveyron <small>(12177)</small>
1. Pierrefiche <small>(12182)</small>
1. Pomayrols <small>(12184)</small>
1. Pont-de-Salars <small>(12185)</small>
1. Prades-d'Aubrac <small>(12187)</small>
1. Prades-Salars <small>(12188)</small>
1. Pradinas <small>(12189)</small>
1. Pruines <small>(12193)</small>
1. Quins <small>(12194)</small>
1. Réquista <small>(12197)</small>
1. Rignac <small>(12199)</small>
1. Rodelle <small>(12201)</small>
1. Rodez <small>(12202)</small>
1. Rullac-Saint-Cirq <small>(12207)</small>
1. Saint-Amans-des-Cots <small>(12209)</small>
1. Saint-Christophe-Vallon <small>(12215)</small>
1. Saint-Chély-d'Aubrac <small>(12214)</small>
1. Saint-Côme-d'Olt <small>(12216)</small>
1. Sainte-Eulalie-d'Olt <small>(12219)</small>
1. Sainte-Juliette-sur-Viaur <small>(12234)</small>
1. Sainte-Radegonde <small>(12241)</small>
1. Saint-Félix-de-Lunel <small>(12221)</small>
1. Saint-Geniez-d'Olt-et-d'Aubrac <small>(12224)</small>
1. Saint-Hippolyte <small>(12226)</small>
1. Saint-Jean-Delnous <small>(12230)</small>
1. Saint-Just-sur-Viaur <small>(12235)</small>
1. Saint-Symphorien-de-Thénières <small>(12250)</small>
1. Salles-la-Source <small>(12254)</small>
1. Salmiech <small>(12255)</small>
1. La Salvetat-Peyralès <small>(12258)</small>
1. Sauveterre-de-Rouergue <small>(12262)</small>
1. Sébazac-Concourès <small>(12264)</small>
1. Sébrazac <small>(12265)</small>
1. La Selve <small>(12267)</small>
1. Sénergues <small>(12268)</small>
1. Soulages-Bonneval <small>(12273)</small>
1. Tauriac-de-Naucelle <small>(12276)</small>
1. Taussac <small>(12277)</small>
1. Tayrac <small>(12278)</small>
1. Thérondels <small>(12280)</small>
1. Trémouilles <small>(12283)</small>
1. Valady <small>(12288)</small>
1. Le Vibal <small>(12297)</small>
1. Villecomtal <small>(12298)</small>
1. Vimenet <small>(12303)</small>

The _communes_ with more inhabitants in the _arrondissement_ are:

|INSEE code !! _Commune_ !! Population <small>(2014)</small> !! Canton || Intercommunality|||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|12202|Rodez|24,088|Rodez-1, Rodez-2 and Rodez-Onet|Rodez Agglomération|
|12176|Onet-le-Château|11,837|Rodez-Onet|Rodez Agglomération|
|12133|Luc-la-Primaube|5,898|Nord-Lévezou|Rodez Agglomération|
|12096|Espalion|4,460|Lot et Truyère|Espalion-Estaing|
|12174|Olemps|3,329|Nord-Lévezou|Rodez Agglomération|
|12264|Sébazac-Concourès|3,197|Causse-Comtal|Rodez Agglomération|
|12056|Baraqueville|3,137|Ceor-Ségala|Pays Ségali|
|12033|Bozouls|2,781|Causse-Comtal|Comtal Lot et Truyère|
|12090|Druelle|2,326|Vallon|Rodez Agglomération|
|12102|Flavin|2,308|Nord-Lévezou|Pays de Salars|

## Related pages

- Arrondissements of the Aveyron department
- Communes of the Aveyron department
- List of arrondissements of France

## Infobox (french subdivision)

- **type**: arr
- **name**: Rodez
- **insee**: 122
- **nbcomm**: 79
- **prefecture**: y
- **seat**: Rodez
- **area**: 2869.7
- **image map**: Locator map of Arrondissement Rodez 2019.png
- **map caption**: Location within the region Occitanie