The land area of the arrondissement is 2.154 km² (0.832 sq. miles, or 532 acres).
Demography
The arrondissement attained its peak population in 1911 when the population density reached nearly 50,000 inhabitants per km². In 1999, the population was 44,919 inhabitants while the arrondissement provided 43,691 jobs.
Historical population
Year
(of French censuses)
Population
Density
(inh. per km²)
1872
90,288
41,994
1911 (peak of population)
102,993
47,815
1954
88,200
41,023
1962
80,262
37,262
1968
70,891
32,911
1975
56,331
26,152
1982
48,905
22,704
1990
47,891
22,234
1999
44,919
20,854
2005 estimate
45,200
20,984
Immigration
Place of birth of residents of the 6th arrondissement in 1999
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.
