Lempdes
Commune
Coat of arms
Location of Lempdes
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Coordinates: 45°46′19″N 3°11′40″E / 45.7719°N 3.1944°E / 45.7719; 3.1944
Country	France
Region	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Department	Puy-de-Dôme
Arrondissement	Clermont-Ferrand
Canton	Pont-du-Château
Intercommunality	Clermont Auvergne Métropole
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Henri Gisselbrecht^[1]
Area ¹	12.3 km² (4.7 sq mi)
Population (2021)^[2]	8,663
• Density	700/km² (1,800/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	63193 /63370
Elevation	317–505 m (1,040–1,657 ft) (avg. 320 m or 1,050 ft)
¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Lempdes (French pronunciation: [lɑ̃ːd]; Auvergnat: Lende) is a commune in the Puy-de-Dôme department in Auvergne in central France.

Population

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1968	3,546	—
1975	5,836	+7.38%
1982	8,015	+4.64%
1990	8,591	+0.87%
1999	8,401	−0.25%
2007	8,331	−0.10%
2012	8,348	+0.04%
2017	8,409	+0.15%
Source: INSEE^[3]

Sights

The neo-romanesque parish church of St Étienne was built in 1867, replacing a previous church building that dated from the 12th century.^[4] It is first recorded in a document of the beginning of the 13th century.^[5]