title: Virieu
text: # Virieu
  
  Virieu (French pronunciation: ​), also Virieu-sur-Bourbre (French pronunciation: ​, literally Virieu on Bourbre), is a former commune in the Isère department in southeastern France. On 1 January 2019, it was merged into the new commune Val-de-Virieu.
  
  ## Geography
  
  The small river Bourbre forms most of the commune's western border.
  
  ## Population
  
  | Year | Pop. | ±% |
  | - | - | - |
  | 1793 | 4,069 | — |
  | 1806 | 1,101 | −72.9% |
  | 1821 | 1,174 | +6.6% |
  | 1831 | 1,285 | +9.5% |
  | 1841 | 1,285 | +0.0% |
  | 1851 | 1,118 | −13.0% |
  | 1861 | 1,119 | +0.1% |
  | 1872 | 1,130 | +1.0% |
  | 1881 | 1,109 | −1.9% |
  | 1891 | 974 | −12.2% |
  | 1901 | 1,057 | +8.5% |
  | 1911 | 951 | −10.0% |
  | Year | Pop. | ±% |
  | 1921 | 831 | −12.6% |
  | 1931 | 818 | −1.6% |
  | 1946 | 845 | +3.3% |
  | 1954 | 788 | −6.7% |
  | 1962 | 716 | −9.1% |
  | 1968 | 761 | +6.3% |
  | 1975 | 828 | +8.8% |
  | 1982 | 950 | +14.7% |
  | 1990 | 954 | +0.4% |
  | 1999 | 940 | −1.5% |
  | 2006 | 973 | +3.5% |
  | 2012 | 1,121 | +15.2% |
  