Soustons

Soustons
Commune
Town hall
Coat of arms
Location of Soustons
Soustons Soustons
Coordinates: 43°45′09″N 1°19′42″W
Country	France
Region	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Department	Landes
Arrondissement	Dax
Canton	Marensin Sud
Intercommunality	Maremne-Adour-Côte-Sud
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Frédérique Charpenel
Area 1	100.38 km2 (38.76 sq mi)
Population  (2021)	8,421
• Density	84/km2 (220/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC 01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC 02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	40310 /40140
Elevation	0–62 m (0–203 ft) (avg. 32 m or 105 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Soustons (French pronunciation: [sustɔ̃]; Occitan: Soston) is a commune in the Landes department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France.

Population

Historical population

Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1793 2,504 —     1800 2,578 0.42% 1806 2,516 −0.40% 1821 2,247 −0.75% 1831 2,508 1.10% 1836 2,560 0.41% 1841 2,783 1.68% 1846 2,846 0.45% 1851 3,123 1.87% 1856 3,164 0.26% 1861 3,285 0.75% 1866 3,582 1.75% 1872 3,458 −0.59% 1876 3,578 0.86% 1881 3,704 0.69% 1886 3,842 0.73% 1891 3,848 0.03% 1896 3,902 0.28%	Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1901 3,946 0.22% 1906 3,888 −0.30% 1911 3,951 0.32% 1921 3,711 −0.62% 1926 3,773 0.33% 1931 3,763 −0.05% 1936 3,702 −0.33% 1946 3,923 0.58% 1954 4,034 0.35% 1962 4,242 0.63% 1968 4,522 1.07% 1975 5,127 1.81% 1982 5,102 −0.07% 1990 5,283 0.44% 1999 5,743 0.93% 2007 6,941 2.40% 2012 7,398 1.28% 2017 7,877 1.26%
Source: EHESS and INSEE (1968–2017)

Soustons hosts one of the LORAN-C transmitters.

See also

• Communes of the Landes department