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Colomiers

Field	Value
name	Colomiers
native name	oc
commune status	Commune
image	Mairie de Colomiers.jpg
caption	The Hôtel de Ville
image coat of arms	Blason ville fr Colomiers (Haute-Garonne).svg
arrondissement	Toulouse
canton	Toulouse-7
INSEE	31149
postal code	31770
mayor	Karine Traval-Michelet
term	2020–2026
intercommunality	Toulouse Métropole
coordinates
elevation m	160
elevation min m	145
elevation max m	191
area km2	20.83
population
population date
population footnotes

|image coat of arms = Blason ville fr Colomiers (Haute-Garonne).svg

Colomiers (; ; Languedocien dialect: Colomièrs) is a commune in the Haute-Garonne department in the Occitania region in Southwestern France. With a population of 39,968 as of 2019, it is the largest suburb of the city of Toulouse, to which it is adjacent on the west side. Colomiers is part of Toulouse Métropole.

History

The Hôtel de Ville was completed in 1991.

Demographics

The inhabitants of the commune are known as Columérins (masculine) or Columérines (feminine).

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Transport

In 1971 it became the first area of France to offer zero-fare public transport, but had to cancel this project in 2016.

Education

There are nine public preschools (maternelles) and six public elementary schools. There are four public junior high schools (collèges): Léon Blum, Victor Hugo, Jean Jaurès, and Voltaire. There are two public senior high schools, Lycée International Victor Hugo and Lycée des Métiers de l'électrotechnique, de la maintenance et Chaudronnerie Eugène-Montel.

There is an international school in Colomiers (International School of Toulouse or IST) which is run by Airbus and which prepares for the International Baccalaureate, and, within the international lycée, a German school (Deutsche Schule Toulouse, DST). English 31, supported by Airbus, provides English-language tuition.

There is also a private preschool, elementary and middle school, Institution « Sainte-Thérèse ».

Sport

US Colomiers is a French rugby union club based in Colomiers.

References

(13 September 2022). "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises.
(6 April 2025). "Colomiers. En trois siècles, l’étonnante histoire des trois hôtels de ville". La Dépêche.
{{Cassini-Ehess. 9948. Colomiers
[https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/4515315?geo=COM-31149#ancre-POP_T1 Population en historique depuis 1968], INSEE
(8 June 2016). "Colomiers: La fin des bus gratuits".
link. (2016-10-05 ." Colomiers. Retrieved on October 3, 2016.)
link. (2016-10-05 ." Colomiers. Retrieved on October 3, 2016.)

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