Arrondissement of Agen

The **arrondissement of Agen** is an arrondissement of France.  It is part of the Lot-et-Garonne _département_ in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region. Its capital, and préfecture of the department, is the city of Agen.

## History

When the _arrondissements_ were created in 1800, Agen was one of them in the Lot-et-Garonne department.

## Geography

The _arrondissement_ is bordered to the north by the _arrondissement_ Villeneuve-sur-Lot, to the east by the Tarn-et-Garonne department, to the south by the Gers department, to the west by the _arrondissement_ Nérac and to the northwest by the _arrondissement_ Marmande.

It is in the southeast of the department and it is the smallest of the _arrondissements_ of Lot-et-Garonne, with an area of , and a population of 120,235 inhabitants; its population density is of  inhabitants/km².

### 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 Agen, there are only two cantons where not all their "communes" are in the _arrondissement_: Le Confluent and Le Pays de Serres. The following table shows the distribution of the "communes" in the cantons and _arrondissements_:

|rowspan="2"|INSEE Code || rowspan="2" | Canton || colspan="4" | Arrondissements || rowspan="2" | Total||||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|4701|Agen-1|3 + part of Agen||||**3** + part of Agen|
|4702|Agen-2|2 + part of Agen||||**2** + part of Agen|
|4703|Agen-3|part of Agen||||part of Agen|
|4704|Agen-4|1 + part of Agen||||**1** + part of Agen|
|4706|Le Confluent|19||1||**20**|
|4715|L'Ouest agenais|11||||**11**|
|4716|Le Pays de Serres|15||8||**23**|
|4717|Le Sud-Est agenais|19||||**19**|

### Communes

The _arrondissement_ of Agen has 71 _communes_; they are (with their INSEE codes):

1. Agen <small>(47001)</small>
1. Aiguillon <small>(47004)</small>
1. Astaffort <small>(47015)</small>
1. Aubiac <small>(47016)</small>
1. Bajamont <small>(47019)</small>
1. Bazens <small>(47022)</small>
1. Beauville <small>(47025)</small>
1. Blaymont <small>(47030)</small>
1. Bon-Encontre <small>(47032)</small>
1. Bourran <small>(47038)</small>
1. Boé <small>(47031)</small>
1. Brax <small>(47040)</small>
1. Cassignas <small>(47050)</small>
1. Castelculier <small>(47051)</small>
1. Castella <small>(47053)</small>
1. Caudecoste <small>(47060)</small>
1. Cauzac <small>(47062)</small>
1. Clermont-Dessous <small>(47066)</small>
1. Clermont-Soubiran <small>(47067)</small>
1. Colayrac-Saint-Cirq <small>(47069)</small>
1. Cours <small>(47073)</small>
1. Cuq <small>(47076)</small>
1. Dondas <small>(47082)</small>
1. Engayrac <small>(47087)</small>
1. Estillac <small>(47091)</small>
1. Fals <small>(47092)</small>
1. Foulayronnes <small>(47100)</small>
1. Frégimont <small>(47104)</small>
1. Galapian <small>(47107)</small>
1. Granges-sur-Lot <small>(47111)</small>
1. Grayssas <small>(47113)</small>
1. La Croix-Blanche <small>(47075)</small>
1. La Sauvetat-de-Savères <small>(47289)</small>
1. Lacépède <small>(47125)</small>
1. Lafox <small>(47128)</small>
1. Lagarrigue <small>(47129)</small>
1. Laplume <small>(47137)</small>
1. Laroque-Timbaut <small>(47138)</small>
1. Laugnac <small>(47140)</small>
1. Layrac <small>(47145)</small>
1. Le Passage <small>(47201)</small>
1. Lusignan-Petit <small>(47154)</small>
1. Madaillan <small>(47155)</small>
1. Marmont-Pachas <small>(47158)</small>
1. Moirax <small>(47169)</small>
1. Monbalen <small>(47171)</small>
1. Montpezat <small>(47190)</small>
1. Nicole <small>(47196)</small>
1. Pont-du-Casse <small>(47209)</small>
1. Port-Sainte-Marie <small>(47210)</small>
1. Prayssas <small>(47213)</small>
1. Puymirol <small>(47217)</small>
1. Roquefort <small>(47225)</small>
1. Saint-Caprais-de-Lerm <small>(47234)</small>
1. Saint-Hilaire-de-Lusignan <small>(47246)</small>
1. Saint-Jean-de-Thurac <small>(47248)</small>
1. Saint-Martin-de-Beauville <small>(47255)</small>
1. Saint-Maurin <small>(47260)</small>
1. Saint-Nicolas-de-la-Balerme <small>(47262)</small>
1. Saint-Pierre-de-Clairac <small>(47269)</small>
1. Saint-Robert <small>(47273)</small>
1. Saint-Romain-le-Noble <small>(47274)</small>
1. Saint-Salvy <small>(47275)</small>
1. Saint-Sardos <small>(47276)</small>
1. Saint-Sixte <small>(47279)</small>
1. Saint-Urcisse <small>(47281)</small>
1. Sainte-Colombe-en-Bruilhois <small>(47238)</small>
1. Sauvagnas <small>(47288)</small>
1. Sauveterre-Saint-Denis <small>(47293)</small>
1. Sérignac-sur-Garonne <small>(47300)</small>
1. Tayrac <small>(47305)</small>

The _communes_ in the _arrondissement_ with more inhabitants are:

|INSEE code !! _Commune_ !! Population <small>(2014)</small> !! Canton || Intercommunality|||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|47001|Agen|34,126|Agen-1, Agen-2 Agen-3, Agen-4 || Agglomération d'Agen||
|47201|Le Passage|9,546|Agen-4|Agglomération d'Agen|
|47032|Bon-Encontre|6,166|Agen-2|Agglomération d'Agen|
|47031|Boé|5,552|Agen-2|Agglomération d'Agen|
|47100|Foulayronnes|5,262|Agen-1|Agglomération d'Agen|
|47004|Aiguillon|4,324|Le Confluent|Le Confluent et des Coteaux de Prayssas|
|47209|Pont-du-Casse|4,208|Agen-1|Agglomération d'Agen|
|47145|Layrac|3,520|Le Sud-Est agenais|Agglomération d'Agen|
|47069|Colayrac-Saint-Cirq|2,902|L'Ouest agenais|Agglomération d'Agen|

## Related pages

- Arrondissements of the Lot-et-Garonne department
- Communes of the Lot-et-Garonne department

## Infobox (french subdivision)

- **type**: arr
- **name**: Agen
- **insee**: 471
- **nbcomm**: 71
- **prefecture**: y
- **seat**: Agen
- **area**: 1013.3
- **image map**: Locator map of Arrondissement Agen 2019.png
- **map caption**: Location within the region Nouvelle-Aquitaine