Paris Metropolitan Area

Map showing the extent of the Paris metropolitan area at the 1999 census, when it included 1,584 communes and covered 14,518 km². Since then, the Paris metropolitan area has absorbed 214 further communes (not shown on the map), so that by the 2010 census it included 1,798 communes and covered 17,174 km².
False-color satellite image of the Parisian metropolitan area.

The Paris metropolitan area (French: aire urbaine de Paris, pronounced: [ɛʁ yʁbɛn də paʁi]) is a statistical area that describes the reach of commuter movement to and from Paris and its surrounding suburbs.

Created by France's national statistical office INSEE to describe suburban development around centres of urban growth, the aire urbaine is composed of a couronne périurbaine (or "rim" [1]) surrounding a more densely built and densely populated pôle urbain (or "urban cluster"[2]), also known as unité urbaine ("urban area").

Extent

As of 2010 the Paris metropolitan area, with its 17,174 km² (6,631 sq mi), extends significantly beyond Paris' administrative Île-de-France region, a region also commonly referred to as the région parisienne ("Paris Region").

Population

The area had a population of 12,405,426 as of the January 2013 census, making it the second largest urban region in the European Union after that of London. Nearly 19% of France's population resides in the region.

The Paris metropolitan area expands at each population census due to the rapid population growth in the Paris area. New communes (municipalities) surrounding Paris are included when they meet the 40% commuter threshold required. At the 1968 census, the earliest date for which population figures were retrospectively computed for French aire urbaines, the Paris metropolitan area had 8,368,459 inhabitants in an area that only encompassed central Île-de-France.[3]

By the 1999 census the Paris metropolitan area was slightly larger than Île-de-France and had 11,174,743 inhabitants in 14,518 km². By the 2012 census it had reached 12,341,418 inhabitants in 17,174 km², an area significantly larger than Île-de-France.[4]

Demographics

The table below shows the population growth of the Paris urban area (unité urbaine, also called pôle urbain, or "urban cluster", by INSEE in the context of a metropolitan area), i.e. Paris and the densely built municipalities surrounding it. (Note: the area shown in red in the map above):

  • 1801 : 548,000
  • 1835 : 1,000,000
  • 1860 : 2,000,000
  • 1885 : 3,000,000
  • 1905 : 4,000,000
  • 1911 : 4,500,000
  • 1921 : 4,850,000
  • 1926 : 5,160,008
  • 1931 : 5,674,419
  • 1936 : 5,784,072
  • 1946 : 5,600,000
  • 1954 : 6,436,296
  • 1962 : 7,384,363
  • 1968 : 8,196,746
  • 1975 : 8,549,898 (310 communes)
  • 1982 : 8,706,963 (335 communes)
  • 1990 : 9,318,821 (378 communes)
  • 1999 : 9,644,507 (396 communes)
  • 2012 : 10,550,350 (412 communes)

The table below shows the population growth of the Paris metropolitan area (aire urbaine), i.e. the urban area (pôle urbain) and the commuter belt (couronne périurbaine) surrounding it. (Note: the area shown in red and pink in the map above):

  • 1968 : 8,368,459[3]
  • 1975 : 9,096,000
  • 1982 : 9,362,000
  • 1990 : 10,291,851 (1,155 communes; 9,679 km²)
  • 1999 : 11,174,743 (1,584 communes; 14,518 km²)
  • 2013 : 12,405,426 (1,798 communes; 17,174 km²)

See also

References

  1. ↑ Definitions and methods: Rim
  2. ↑ Definitions and methods: Urban Cluster
  3. 1 2 Philippe Julien. "Mesurer un univers urbain en expansion" (PDF) (in French). INSEE. p. 11. Retrieved 2013-09-22.
  4. ↑ INSEE. "Séries historiques des résultats du recensement - Aire urbaine de Paris (001)" (in French). Retrieved 2015-11-21.

External links

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