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Saint-Victoret
Saint-Victoret
Commune
	Coat of arms
	Location of Saint-Victoret
	Saint-Victoret Saint-Victoret
	Coordinates: 43°25′18″N 5°14′03″E / 43.4216°N 5.2342°E
Country	France
Region	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Department	Bouches-du-Rhône
Arrondissement	Istres
Canton	Vitrolles
Intercommunality	Aix-Marseille-Provence
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Claude Piccirillo
Area 1	4.73 km2 (1.83 sq mi)
Population (2021)	6,648
• Density	1,400/km2 (3,600/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	13102 /13730
Elevation	15–120 m (49–394 ft) ; (avg. 26 m or 85 ft)
	1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Saint-Victoret (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ viktɔʁɛ]; Occitan: Sant Victoret) is a commune in the Bouches-du-Rhône department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southern France. It is located northwest of Marseille.

Saint-Victoret is a small market town situated just next to Marignane, not far from the airport and just a few kilometres from the eastern shore of the Étang de Berre. If you take the secondary road D20 to Saint-Victoret, you first pass through the hamlet of Pas-des-Lanciers. Here you will find a small, lively district with a few shops and an SNCF railway station for the transport of goods and freight to the airport. In the roads parallel to the D20 there are some pretty little villas which were built before the airport.

Two kilometres beyond Pas-des-Lanciers you will come to the centre of Saint Victoret. With its new housing blocks, roundabouts planted with flowers, a media library and a cultural centre, the heart of the village is well laid out and pleasantly floral. You may feel as though you have arrived in the new village of Saint Victoret, since everything looks so recent. Nevertheless, the village makes the most of what historic heritage there is, with several chapels, churches and pretty fountains.

The history and life of Saint-Victoret are closely linked with the activities of the airport in every respect. There is one Saint-Victoret before the airport and another after the airport ... the proximity of the airport has enormous repercussions for the village. First and foremost is obviously the incessant noise of aeroplanes landing at the airport. How bearable the noise is depends on which district of Saint-Victoret you are in (some districts lie directly beneath the flight path to the landing strip).

In terms of employment, real estate and, above all, the revival of the local economy, the airport has certainly had a very real impact on Saint-Victoret... both in a positive and a negative sense.

Population

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1793	240	—
1800	236	−0.24%
1806	258	+1.50%
1821	264	+0.15%
1831	264	+0.00%
1836	298	+2.45%
1841	348	+3.15%
1846	503	+7.65%
1851	442	−2.55%
1856	501	+2.54%
1861	528	+1.06%
1866	500	−1.08%
1872	470	−1.03%
1876	473	+0.16%
1881	458	−0.64%
1886	484	+1.11%
1891	493	+0.37%
1896	531	+1.50%

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1901	504	−1.04%
1906	546	+1.61%
1911	543	−0.11%
1921	590	+0.83%
1926	698	+3.42%
1931	864	+4.36%
1936	1,050	+3.98%
1946	1,524	+3.80%
1954	2,532	+6.55%
1962	3,605	+4.52%
1968	4,880	+5.18%
1975	5,436	+1.55%
1982	5,571	+0.35%
1990	6,047	+1.03%
1999	6,810	+1.33%
2007	6,530	−0.52%
2012	6,632	+0.31%
2017	6,625	−0.02%