Champigny-sur-Marne Population and Area (Val-de-Marne)
Largest city in France 2026: up-to-date figures for Champigny-sur-Marne (Val-de-Marne)
Champigny-sur-Marne: Population and Area
With 78,400 inhabitants (INSEE total population in force on January 1, 2026), Champigny-sur-Marne is the 66th most populous town in France in 2026 and the 3rd most populous in the Val-de-Marne department, out of 47 communes. It covers 11 km² (16,852nd largest area in France, 3rd largest in the department), with a population density of 6,938 inhabitants per km², or 63 times the national average (110 inhabitants/km²), which ranks it 84th in France for density.
Champigny-sur-Marne is located in the Val-de-Marne department (94), in the Île-de-France region, where it ranks 16th by population out of 1,266 communes. The most populous town in the Val-de-Marne department is Vitry-sur-Seine (94,393 inhabitants); the department is home to 1,435,612 people over 245 km².
See the full ranking of communes in the Val-de-Marne department and the regional ranking: largest city in Île-de-France.
Towns of similar size in the Val-de-Marne department: Vitry-sur-Seine (pop. 94,393), Créteil (pop. 93,813), Saint-Maur-des-Fossés (pop. 77,413), Ivry-sur-Seine (pop. 65,263), Villejuif (pop. 60,473).
Sources: INSEE, official population figures in force on January 1, 2026 (total population); areas: IGN / Observatoire des territoires; INSEE code 94017. Rankings are calculated across the 34,858 communes of metropolitan and overseas France in our database.
Champigny-sur-Marne, a major city on the banks of the Marne
The third-largest town in the Val-de-Marne by population, Champigny-sur-Marne stretches along the left bank of the Marne, east of Paris. Its name is tied to the Battle of Champigny, fought in 1870 during the Siege of Paris, which a monument commemorates.
From riverside dance halls to housing projects
In the 19th century, the Marne riverbanks of Champigny-sur-Marne drew Parisians on Sundays to the guinguettes, the open-air dance halls celebrated by painters and songs. The town then grew in waves: subdivisions of detached houses between the wars, then large housing projects in the 1960s, such as Bois-l'Abbé, built to house families from the eastern Paris area. In the 1960s, Champigny also took in many Portuguese workers, whose community still leaves its mark on the town. Its density, high without reaching that of the towns bordering Paris, reflects this mix of detached-house neighborhoods and apartment blocks.