Counterurbanisation in France: the results of the 1982 population census

Abstract

Turnaround migration and counter-urbanization in France are examined using preliminary data from the 1982 census. For the first time in more than a century rural France grew more quickly between 1975 and 1982 than urban France. The article documents the decline in core urban areas which has greatly accelerated from its beginnings during the 1960s and shows how urbanisation is diffusing outwards so that the fastest-growing areas are now those at the bottom of the urban hierarchy and rural districts on the edge of urban and industrial areas. While there is still a heartland of depopulating rural communities this is due more to an excess of deaths over births than to out-migration. (EXCERPT)

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