Garges-lès-Gonesse

Garges-lès-Gonesse
Commune
One of the city's projects and major urban concentrations, Les Doucettes.
Coat of arms
Location (in red) within Paris inner and outer suburbs
Location of Garges-lès-Gonesse
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Coordinates: 48°58′22″N 2°24′03″E
Country	France
Region	Île-de-France
Department	Val-d'Oise
Arrondissement	Sarcelles
Canton	Garges-lès-Gonesse
Intercommunality	CA Roissy Pays de France
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Benoît Jimenez[1]
Area ^1	5.47 km^2 (2.11 sq mi)
Population  (2022)[2]	42,388
• Density	7,700/km^2 (20,000/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	95268 /95140
Elevation	34–80 m (112–262 ft) (avg. 60 m or 200 ft)
^1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km^2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Garges-lès-Gonesse (French pronunciation: [ɡaʁʒ lɛ ɡɔnɛs] ^ⓘ, literally Garges near Gonesse) is a commune in the Val-d'Oise department in northern France. It is located in the northern suburbs of Paris, 14.1 km (8.8 mi) from the center of Paris. The city is a part of the Paris urban area. It is the seat of the canton of Garges-lès-Gonesse, which also covers Arnouville.

The city is strongly urbanized and is near to Paris–Le Bourget Airport. Garges-lès-Gonesse was transformed from an old rural village to a suburb at the beginning of the 20th century.

Population

Historical population

Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1793 554 —     1800 593 +0.98% 1806 534 −1.73% 1821 483 −0.67% 1831 549 +1.29% 1836 485 −2.45% 1841 489 +0.16% 1846 437 −2.22% 1851 431 −0.28% 1856 398 −1.58% 1861 416 +0.89% 1866 443 +1.27% 1872 360 −3.40% 1876 808 +22.40% 1881 466 −10.42% 1886 540 +2.99% 1891 512 −1.06% 1896 490 −0.87%	Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1901 639 +5.45% 1906 688 +1.49% 1911 681 −0.20% 1921 1,211 +5.93% 1926 1,805 +8.31% 1931 2,621 +7.75% 1936 3,330 +4.90% 1946 3,536 +0.60% 1954 4,814 +3.93% 1962 10,483 +10.22% 1968 27,312 +17.30% 1975 37,927 +4.80% 1982 40,182 +0.83% 1990 42,144 +0.60% 1999 40,058 −0.56% 2007 39,098 −0.30% 2012 41,001 +0.96% 2017 42,728 +0.83%
Source: EHESS[3] and INSEE (1968-2017)[4]

Transport

Garges-lès-Gonesse is served by Garges – Sarcelles station on Paris RER line D.

Education

Primary schools:^[5]

• 13 preschools
• 11 elementary schools
• Four combined preschools and elementary schools

Secondary schools:

• Junior high schools: Paul Eluard, Henri Wallon, Pablo Picasso, and Henri Matisse^[6]
• Senior high school/sixth-form college: Lycée Simone de Beauvoir^[7]
• Vocational high school: Lycée professionel Arthur Rimbaud^[8]

Personalities

• Diamory Sylla, basketball player
• Marc Macedot, athlete
• Mr. Brainwash, street artist
• Wissam Ben Yedder, footballer

See also

• Communes of the Val-d'Oise department

References

1. "Répertoire national des élus: les maires" (in French). data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 13 September 2022.
2. "Populations de référence 2022" (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 19 December 2024.
3. Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Garges-lès-Gonesse, EHESS (in French).
4. Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
5. "Les écoles à Garges." Garges. Retrieved on September 7, 2016.
6. "Les collèges Archived 2016-09-14 at the Wayback Machine." Garges. Retrieved on September 7, 2016.
7. "Le lycée." Garges. Retrieved on September 7, 2016.
8. "Le lycée professionnel Archived 2020-10-06 at the Wayback Machine." Garges. Retrieved on September 7, 2016.

External links

• Official website (in French)
• Base Mérimée: Search for heritage in the commune, Ministère français de la Culture. (in French)
• Association of Mayors of the Val d'Oise (in French)