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La Tronche
La Tronche
	Commune
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	Coordinates: 45°12′26″N 5°44′28″E / 45.2072°N 5.7411°E / 45.2072; 5.7411Coordinates: 45°12′26″N 5°44′28″E / 45.2072°N 5.7411°E / 45.2072; 5.7411;
Country	France
Region	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Department	Isère
Arrondissement	Grenoble
Canton	Meylan
Intercommunality	Grenoble-Alpes Métropole
Government ;
• Mayor .mw-parser-output .nobold{font-weight:normal}; (2014–2020) ;	Bertrand Spindler
Area 1;	6.4 km2 (2.5 sq mi)
Population (2012)2; ;	6,627
• Density	1,000/km2 (2,700/sq mi)
Time zone	; UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	; UTC+02:00 (CEST)
; INSEE/Postal code	; 38516 /38700
Elevation	207–1,045 m (679–3,428 ft) ; (avg. 220 m or 720 ft)
	; 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.; 2Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Commune in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

La Tronche is a commune in the Isère department in southeastern France, next to Grenoble. The Centre hospitalier universitaire de Grenoble is the main hospital of the French Alps.

The French archaeologist and hellenist Henri Metzger (1912–2007) was born in La Tronche.

Population

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±%
1793	997	—
1806	1,095	+9.8%
1821	1,109	+1.3%
1831	1,372	+23.7%
1841	1,537	+12.0%
1851	1,722	+12.0%
1861	1,728	+0.3%
1872	2,131	+23.3%
1881	2,385	+11.9%
1891	2,428	+1.8%
1901	2,887	+18.9%
1911	2,922	+1.2%
1921	3,461	+18.4%
1931	5,572	+61.0%
1946	5,364	−3.7%
1954	6,320	+17.8%
1962	7,517	+18.9%
1968	7,993	+6.3%
1975	7,410	−7.3%
1982	6,690	−9.7%
1990	6,454	−3.5%
1999	6,433	−0.3%
2006	6,142	−4.5%
2012	6,627	+7.9%