Arrondissement of Mulhouse

The arrondissement of Mulhouse is an arrondissement of France in the Haut-Rhin department in the Grand Est region. Its capital is the city of Mulhouse.

Mulhouse
Arrondissement
Location within the region Grand Est
Country	France
Region	Grand Est
Department	Haut-Rhin
No. of communes	79
Subprefecture	Mulhouse
Area	707.1 km2 (273.0 sq mi)
Population  (Jan. 2019)[1]	355,829
INSEE code	684

History

Mulhouse is an arrondissement of the Haut-Rhin department since 1857.^[2]

At the 2015 arrondissements changes, the arrondissement of Mulhouse was expanded with several communes from the new arrondissement of Thann-Guebwiller.^[3]

Geography

The arrondissement of Mulhouse is in the southeast of the Haut-Rhin department. It is bordered to the northeast by the Colmar-Ribeauvillé arrondissement, to the east by Germany, to the south by the Altkirch arrondissement and to the west and north by the Thann-Guebwiller arrondissement.

The arrondissement of Mulhouse is the second smallest of the arrondissements of the department, after the Altkirch arrondissement, with an area of 707.1 square kilometres (273.0 square miles). It has a population of 350,032 inhabitants and a population density of 495.0 inhabitants/km².^[4]

Composition

Cantons

After the reorganisation of the cantons in France,^[5] cantons are not subdivisions of the arrondissements so they could have communes that belong to different arrondissements.

There are 8 cantons in the arrondissement of Mulhouse:

1. Brunstatt (6802)
2. Kingersheim (6808)
3. Mulhouse-1 (6810)
4. Mulhouse-2 (6811)
5. Mulhouse-3 (6812)
6. Rixheim (6813)
7. Saint-Louis (6814)
8. Wittenheim (6817)

Communes

The arrondissement of Mulhouse has 79 communes; they are (with their INSEE codes)ː^[6]

1. Attenschwiller (68013)
2. Baldersheim (68015)
3. Bantzenheim (68020)
4. Bartenheim (68021)
5. Battenheim (68022)
6. Berrwiller (68032)
7. Blotzheim (68042)
8. Bollwiller (68043)
9. Brinckheim (68054)
10. Bruebach (68055)
11. Brunstatt-Didenheim (68056)
12. Buschwiller (68061)
13. Chalampé (68064)
14. Dietwiller (68072)
15. Eschentzwiller (68084)
16. Feldkirch (68088)
17. Flaxlanden (68093)
18. Folgensbourg (68094)
19. Galfingue (68101)
20. Geispitzen (68103)
21. Habsheim (68118)
22. Hagenthal-le-Bas (68120)
23. Hagenthal-le-Haut (68121)
24. Hégenheim (68126)
25. Heimsbrunn (68129)
26. Helfrantzkirch (68132)
27. Hésingue (68135)
28. Hombourg (68144)
29. Huningue (68149)
30. Illzach (68154)
31. Kappelen (68160)
32. Kembs (68163)
33. Kingersheim (68166)
34. Knœringue (68168)
35. Kœtzingue (68170)
36. Landser (68174)
37. Leymen (68182)
38. Liebenswiller (68183)
39. Lutterbach (68195)
40. Magstatt-le-Bas (68197)
41. Magstatt-le-Haut (68198)
42. Michelbach-le-Bas (68207)
43. Michelbach-le-Haut (68208)
44. Morschwiller-le-Bas (68218)
45. Mulhouse (68224)
46. Neuwiller (68232)
47. Niffer (68238)
48. Ottmarsheim (68253)
49. Petit-Landau (68254)
50. Pfastatt (68256)
51. Pulversheim (68258)
52. Ranspach-le-Bas (68263)
53. Ranspach-le-Haut (68264)
54. Rantzwiller (68265)
55. Reiningue (68267)
56. Richwiller (68270)
57. Riedisheim (68271)
58. Rixheim (68278)
59. Rosenau (68286)
60. Ruelisheim (68289)
61. Saint-Louis (68297)
62. Sausheim (68300)
63. Schlierbach (68301)
64. Sierentz (68309)
65. Staffelfelden (68321)
66. Steinbrunn-le-Bas (68323)
67. Steinbrunn-le-Haut (68324)
68. Stetten (68327)
69. Uffheim (68341)
70. Ungersheim (68343)
71. Village-Neuf (68349)
72. Wahlbach (68353)
73. Waltenheim (68357)
74. Wentzwiller (68362)
75. Wittelsheim (68375)
76. Wittenheim (68376)
77. Zaessingue (68382)
78. Zillisheim (68384)
79. Zimmersheim (68386)

The communes with more inhabitants in the arrondissement are:

INSEE code	Commune	Population[4] (2014)	Canton	Intercommunality
68224	Mulhouse	111,167	Mulhouse-1, Mulhouse-2, Mulhouse-3	Mulhouse Alsace Agglomération
68297	Saint-Louis	20,228	Saint-Louis	CA Saint-Louis
68376	Wittenheim	14,713	Wittenheim	Mulhouse Alsace Agglomération
68154	Illzach	14,448	Mulhouse-3	Mulhouse Alsace Agglomération
68278	Rixheim	13,773	Rixheim	Mulhouse Alsace Agglomération
68166	Kingersheim	12,918	Kingersheim	Mulhouse Alsace Agglomération
68271	Riedisheim	12,102	Rixheim	Mulhouse Alsace Agglomération
68375	Wittelsheim	10,341	Wittenheim	Mulhouse Alsace Agglomération
68256	Pfastatt	9,427	Kingersheim	Mulhouse Alsace Agglomération
68056	Brunstatt-Didenheim	7,899	Brunstatt	Mulhouse Alsace Agglomération

Related pages

• Arrondissements of the Haut-Rhin department
• List of arrondissements of France

References

1. "Téléchargement du fichier d'ensemble des populations légales en 2019". The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2020.
2. "Historique du Haut-Rhin". Le SPLAF (in French). Retrieved 15 December 2017.
3. Décret n° 2014-1720 du 29 décembre 2014 portant suppression des arrondissements de Guebwiller et de Ribeauvillé (département du Haut-Rhin)
4. "Régions, départements, arrondissements, cantons et communes" (PDF). Populations légales 2014 (in French). Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques - INSEE. Retrieved 17 December 2017.
5. "Décret n° 2014-207 du 21 février 2014 portant délimitation des cantons dans le département du Haut-Rhin" (in French). Légifrance.gouv.fr. Retrieved 15 December 2017.
6. "Arrondissement de Mulhouse (684)". Géographie administrative et d’étude (in French). Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques - INSEE. Retrieved 17 December 2017.

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