Aubervilliers Population and Area (Seine-Saint-Denis)
Largest city in France 2026: up-to-date figures for Aubervilliers (Seine-Saint-Denis)
Aubervilliers: Population and Area
With 88,529 inhabitants (INSEE total population in force on January 1, 2026), Aubervilliers is the 52nd most populous town in France in 2026 and the 3rd most populous in the Seine-Saint-Denis department, out of 39 communes. It covers 5.76 km² (27,871st largest area in France, 16th largest in the department), with a population density of 15,370 inhabitants per km², or 140 times the national average (110 inhabitants/km²), which ranks it 20th in France for density.
Aubervilliers is located in the Seine-Saint-Denis department (93), in the Île-de-France region, where it ranks 11th by population out of 1,266 communes. The most populous town in the Seine-Saint-Denis department is Saint-Denis (149,936 inhabitants); the department is home to 1,710,659 people over 236 km².
See the full ranking of communes in the Seine-Saint-Denis department and the regional ranking: largest city in Île-de-France.
Towns of similar size in the Seine-Saint-Denis department: Saint-Denis (pop. 149,936), Montreuil (pop. 112,549), Aulnay-sous-Bois (pop. 87,951), Noisy-le-Grand (pop. 73,408), Drancy (pop. 72,583).
Sources: INSEE, official population figures in force on January 1, 2026 (total population); areas: IGN / Observatoire des territoires; INSEE code 93001. Rankings are calculated across the 34,858 communes of metropolitan and overseas France in our database.
Aubervilliers, one of the most densely populated towns in France
Bordering northern Paris, Aubervilliers is the third-largest town in Seine-Saint-Denis by population, on a territory that is among the smallest of any major French city. This combination makes it one of the most densely populated towns in the country, on a par with the Paris arrondissements.
A working-class town in transformation
Once market-gardening land, Aubervilliers industrialized in the 19th century along the Canal Saint-Denis, with chemicals, metalworking and the warehouses of La Plaine, then welcomed successive waves of workers from the French provinces and from abroad, giving it a young and highly diverse population. Over the past fifteen years or so, the town has been changing its face: the extension of Metro line 12, the opening of the Campus Condorcet devoted to the humanities and social sciences, and the conversion of the canal's brownfield sites into housing and offices. Its population, already large, keeps growing, driven by its immediate proximity to Paris.