20th arrondissement of Paris

20th arrondissement of Paris

Rue de Ménilmontant in the 20th arrondissement.

Location

Paris and its closest suburbs

Administration

Statistics

Land area¹

5.98 km²

Population²
(July 1, 2005 estimate)
(March 8, 1999 census)

191,800
182,952

-Density (2005)

32,052/km²

¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq. mi. or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

² Population sans doubles comptes: single count of residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel).

Demographics

The population of Paris's 20th arrondissement peaked in 1936, when it had 208,115 inhabitants. Today it remains very dense in population and business activity with 182,952 inhabitants and 54,786 jobs as of the last census, in 1999.

Historical population

Year
(of French censuses)

Population

Density
(inh. per km²)

1872

92,772

15,503

1936 (peak of population)

208,115

34,779

1954

200,208

33,457

1962

199,310

33,307

1968

188,921

31,571

1975

175,795

29,378

1982

171,971

28,738

1990

184,478

30,829

1999

182,952

30,574

2005 estimate

191,800

32,052

Immigration

Place of birth of residents of the 20th arrondissement in 1999
Born in Metropolitan France	Born outside Metropolitan France
74.7%	25.3%
	Born in Overseas France	Born in foreign countries with French citizenship at birth¹	EU-15 immigrants²	Non-EU-15 immigrants
	1.9%	4.0%	3.1%	16.3%

¹This group is made up largely of pieds-noirs from Northwest Africa, followed by former colonial citizens who had French citizenship at birth (such as was often the case for the native elite in French colonies), and to a lesser extent foreign-born children of French expatriates. Note that a foreign country is understood as a country not part of France as of 1999, so a person born for example in 1950 in Algeria, when Algeria was an integral part of France, is nonetheless listed as a person born in a foreign country in French statistics.
² An immigrant is a person born in a foreign country not having French citizenship at birth. Note that an immigrant may have acquired French citizenship since moving to France, but is still considered an immigrant in French statistics. On the other hand, persons born in France with foreign citizenship (the children of immigrants) are not listed as immigrants.