List of intercommunalities of the Allier department

The department of Allier has, since 1 January 2017, had eleven public establishments for intercommunal cooperation (EPCI) with their own tax system: three communautés d'agglomération and eight communautés de communes.

Until 2016, the department had twenty-one intercommunal structures (three communautés d'agglomération and eighteen communautés de communes).

The 320 communes (318 in 2016 and 317 since 2017) of the department are part of a communautés d'agglomération/de communes of Allier or one of its neighbouring departments.

List of intercommunalities in 2019 +Legal formNameSIREN numberDate of creationNumber of communesPopulation (2018)Area (km2)Density (per km2)SeatPresidentRef.Agglomeration communitiesCA Vichy Communauté2000713631 January 20173982,759741.30112VichyFrédéric AguileraCA Moulins Communauté2000711401 January 201744 (including 42 in Allier)64,9631,336.2049MoulinsPierre-André PérissolCA Montluçon Communauté2000710821 January 20172161,151377.80162Montluçon Daniel DugleryCommunauté de communesCC Saint-Pourçain Sioule Limagne2000715121 January 20176034,033911.4037Saint-Pourçain-sur-SiouleVéronique PouzadouxCC Commentry Montmarault Néris Communauté2000715121 January 20173325,85872836CommentryBruno RojouanCC Entr'Allier Besbre et Loire2000714701 January 20174424,7731,089.5023Varennes-sur-AllierRoger LitaudonCC du Bocage Bourbonnais2000714961 January 20172513,767735.7019Bourbon-l'ArchambaultJean-Paul DufregneCC du Pays de Lapalisse24030049120 December 1997148,47633425LapalisseJacques De ChabannesCC du Pays d'Huriel2403006571 December 2001147,487378.5020HurielMichel TabutinCC du Pays de Tronçais24030055830 December 1999157,472495.6015CérillyDenis ClergetCC du Val de Cher2403005663 February 200075,544192.3029AudesGérard CiofoloIntercommunalities whose seats are located outside of the department Communauté de communesCC Le Grand Charolais2000718841 January 201744 (including 3 in Allier)40,136941.9043Paray-le-Monial (Saône-et-Loire)Fabien Genet With the exception of the communauté de communes du Bocage Bourbonnais, subject to additional taxation, all of Allier's intercommunal governments apply a single professional tax.

By prefectural decree of 8 December 2017, the commune of Saint-Point was moved from the communauté de communes Saint-Pourçain Sioule Limagne to the agglomerated community of Vichy Communauté.

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