The canton of Isle-Adam is a French administrative division , located in the department of the Val-d'Oise and the area Île-de-France. It gathers six communes of the Arrondissement of Pontoise.

The General adviser resulting from the cantonal district is, since 2002, Roland Guichard, mayor of Parmain, which succeeded Axel Poniatowski, mayor of Isle-Adam, elected official the outgoing previous year but following its election with the National Assembly. The canton is politically on the right.

Situation

The canton of Isle-Adam is located at horse on several natural areas of the department. It indeed gathers communes of the valley of Oise (Isle-Adam and Mériel) and villages of the forest west of the Pays of France (Presles, Villiers-Adam, Nerville-the-Forest) to which is added Parmain, a commune of the Eastern end of the French Vexin historically related to Isle-Adam. He constitutes the limit is Arrondissement of Pontoise.

The cantons bordering are, in the west, the canton vexinois of the valley of Sausseron (chief town Auvers-sur-Oise), in north the Canton of Beaumont-on-Oise, more populated, in the east the Canton of Luzarches in the country of France and the Arrondissement of Sarcelles, in the south is the Canton of Taverny and in the western south the Canton of Saint-Ouen-the Alms.

Geographical characteristics

The canton is marked by the presence of the Oise on the one hand and many forests on the other hand: national forests of Isle-Adam and Carnelle in Presles, the departmental forest included/understood in the Wood of the Tower of Lay in Parmain, and other wooded areas such as the wood of the Wild rabbits with Mériel or the other wood heights of Parmain. The canton is notched by the valley of the Oise which created a unevenness between the west (plate of Vexin) and is (forest plate, marked by the hillocks of the forest of Isle-Adam, which extends inclined more in the east towards the plain of France and the country of the same name). The culminating point of the canton is at Nerville-the-Forest with 194 meters and its point low with Mériel (22 meters in edge of river), is uneven of 172 meters.

History

The canton of Isle-Adam, as a subdivision of the District of Pontoise in the old department of Seine-et-Oise, disappeared indeed in 1968 under the terms of the law of July 10th, 1964, exists since February 17th, 1800 (law of the 28 pluviôse year VIII). When the districts were districts, the canton existed already. Its creation date goes back thus in March 1790. It at that time included/understood the eleven communes of Villiers-Adam, Méry, Mériel, Jouy-the-Count (today Parmain), Nesles, Fontenelle (today Nesles-the-Valley), Labbeville, Frouville, Hérouville, Auvers and Valmondois. In 1870, the canton included/understood twenty-three communes. They are illustrated on the painted boxes of the ceiling of the town hall of Isle-Adam.

Composition and intercommunality

The canton gathers the six following communes:

Intercommunalité

Part of the communes of the canton is gathered within the Communauté of communes of the Valley of Oise and the Three Forests: Isle-Adam, Parmain, Presles and Villiers-Adam are members, like, except canton, Champagne-on-Oise, Chauvry and Béthemont-the-Forest. Mériel preferred to join the Communauté of communes of the Valley of Oise and of the impressionists and Nerville-the-Forest of any community end 2007 is not member.

The canton in its district

The average surface of the cantons of the district of Pontoise being of 49 km ², the canton of Isle-Adam is slightly vaster than the average. It constitutes 6.75% of the surface of the district.

In terms of population in 1999, the average of population per canton of the district being of 27.522 inhabitants, the canton of Isle-Adam is slightly in lower part of this average. It constitutes approximately 5.5% of the population of the district. Thus, the canton slightly vaster and is slightly less populated than the average within its district. Its density, 457 inhabitants with the km ², is lower than that of the district (565 inhabitants with the km ²) and than that of the department (887 inhabitants with the km ²).

Demography and housing in 1999

Demography

Housing, departmental comparison

The residences of the canton are on average older and vaster than in the remainder of the department of the Val-d'Oise. The canton counted: 10523 residences of which: 9518 main homes in 1999 is 90,4% of the total (for 3,2% of second home). The Middle Age of the park Immobilier is lower than the departmental tendency: 39,2% of the main homes went back to 1949 with 1974, against 43,1% In the Val-d'Oise. Being recent constructions, the canton is in the average of the department: in 1999, 10,4% of the main homes dated from 1990 or afterwards against 11% in Île-de-France. On the other hand, constructions former to 1949 represented that 27,1% of the park compared with 18,8% for the average of the Val-d'Oise.

The canton of Isle-Adam is made up as a large majority of individual residences, and is especially made up owners. 75% of the main homes are houses and 25% of the apartments (respectively 48,3% and 51,7% in the department). 71.7% of the inhabitants are owners of their housing, against 36,8% which are only tenants (respectively 56,1% and 40,6% in the department).

One can note moreover that the number of vacant housings had been slightly lower in 1999 than the departmental average with 5,8% of the park against 6,3%. 49% of the inhabitants of the canton were resident commune for more than nine years in 1999, which is in the average of the Val-d'Oise (48,5%).

The dwellings are characterized by their important surface: a strong majority counts four parts and more (68,6%). The residences of three parts (19,5%) follow, then 2 parts (8,7%). The small residences remain very minority (studios: 3,2%). However, 31,9% of the households were made up only of two people, and 21,3% of only one, tendency which one finds with identical in the department in strong increase of 1990 to 1999.
The canton thus has residences rather in conformity with the departmental tendencies with an older park but nevertheless a strong underrepresentation of small surfaces and collective habitats.

Sociology

Level of studies and incomes

The level of education in the canton of Isle-Adam is higher than in the remainder of the department of the Val-d'Oise. Indeed, it appears that only 11,9% of the population are not titular of any diploma, quantifies less important than on the whole of the department (18,5%). Contrary, the share in the total population of the holders of diplomas of level bac+2 or superior is, in the commune, of 22,6% compared with 19,2% in the department.

Being the average revenue by household in the canton (average of the levels of the communes), it rises in 2004 with: 24460 euros per annum, is a level higher than the national average (: 15027 euros per annum) and secondary road (22 236 euros per annum).

Population pyramid

The population of the canton is less young than the population francilienne (men and women confused one counts 37,9% from 0 to 29 years in 1999 in the canton against 43,25% on average in the department, in addition youngest of France). The share of more than 60 years, of 14,1% men and women confused in 1999 in the area is a contrario higher in the canton, where it is assembled to 17,85% of the total population. The share of the inhabitants between 30 and 59 years is slightly higher in the canton (44,25%) that in the Val-d'Oise (42,6%). In the canton like overall in Ile-de-France, the population ages.

Activity and socioprofessional categories

Among its 15 year old population and more 1999, the canton counts only twenty-five farmers, which statistically, is equivalent to 0,1% 15 years and more. The 15 year old population or more reprocessed account on the other hand 41.3% of and Inactive, more than the departmental average which is of 37,9%. Ouvrier S and Employé S account for 25% of the cantonal population, against 37,1% in the department, quantifies lower than that of the intermediate occupations and the frameworks and higher intellectual professions which amounts to 29,7%, against 24,5% in the Val-d'Oise. The canton also counts 4% of tradesmen and craftsmen (3% in the department).

Being the activities in 1999, the inhabitants of the canton are 1,2% to work in the agricultural sector, which is higher than the departmental average of 0,8%. In comparison with the remainder of the department, they are on the other hand fewer to work in the Industrie (7,7% against 13,5%) and the construction industry (6,9% against 9%). Still more than in the department, the inhabitants of the canton are active in the tertiary sector (84,2% against 79,9%), in particular in the trade (18.9% compared with 14,7% at the departmental level). 85,8% of the inhabitants of the canton are paid, a proportion slightly lower than the departmental average of 92,2%. Paid or not they are 19% to work part-time.

Elements of local economy

All the communes of the canton include/understand, with more or less large scales, of agricultural surfaces cultivated on their territory as well as important forest zones and natural. No industry of scale is installed in the canton, which remains primarily a residential zone and rural (Villiers-Adam and Nerville-the-Forest counts less than thousand inhabitants each one) with the fringes of the urban Aire of Paris. The essence of the marketing activity is concentrated with Isle-Adam, in particular at the shopping mall the Large Valley in the north of the canton. The communes of intermediate size (Presles, Parmain, Mériel) have trade of proximity however. The Tourisme relatively is developed compared with the cantons bordering but remains especially of origin francilienne, explaining the low hotel capacity.

Employment and mobility

In 1999, the Chômeur S accounted for 9% of the inhabitants of the canton against 12% in the department. 17% of the credits of the canton having an employment work and resident in their commune of residence, which is slightly lower than the departmental average of 18,6%. Among those working out of their commune of residence, 47,1% do it out of the Val-d'Oise (against 62% of the inhabitants of the department. Still more than on average in the department, the inhabitants of the commune borrow to primarily them Voiture to go to work (66,3%, against 52,2% of the inhabitants of the Val-d'Oise). Only 12,6% use only the Public transport, against 25,7% of the inhabitants of the department. This last figure is undoubtedly explained partly by relative the bad service road of the canton by the train, which is not served by the RER but by a Transilien at the less frequencies of passage.

Infrastructures and transport

The canton is relatively well served by the train insofar as the four most important communes are served by stations located on their territory or at immediate proximity (Gare of Isle-Adam - Parmain, Gare of Mériel, Gare of Presles - Courcelles).

Places of interest, inheritance, culture

Museums

In addition to the places of temporary exhibition, the canton counts three Musée S with permanent collections:

  • the museum doubles of Isle-Adam (the museum of art and Louis-Senlecq history and the center of art Jacques Henri Lartigue with the collections and separate programmings)
  • the collection of Archéologie of the town hall of Parmain
  • the museum Jean-Gabin in Mériel

Classified religious buildings

The recognized religious buildings historic building in the canton are:

  • the Saint Martin's day church with Isle-Adam
  • the Saint-Denis church in Parmain (Jouy-the-Count)
  • Auxerre-native the Saint-Germain-the church in Presles
  • the Notre-Dame abbey of the Valley in Mériel
  • the Saint-Sulpice church with Villiers-Adam

Other monuments

Castles

  • the Castle of Stors with Isle-Adam (hamlet of Stors)

  • the Conti castle on the island of the Priory with Isle-Adam and other fields on the commune (castle of the Pheasantry, castle of Forgets, field of Vivray)
  • the castle of Courcelles with Presles
  • the castle of Nerville with Nerville-the-Forest

Others

  • the Chinese house with the park of Cassan with Isle-Adam

  • the dovecote of Boulonville with Parmain
  • the strengthened farm of Valpendant with Presles
  • the Perrot mill in Mériel (field of Stors)

Others

With the autumn, the festival of the countryside joins together by expressed cultural and of the activities the communes of the canton.

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