Drancy Population and Area (Seine-Saint-Denis)
Largest city in France 2026: up-to-date figures for Drancy (Seine-Saint-Denis)
Drancy: Population and Area
With 72,583 inhabitants (INSEE total population in force on January 1, 2026), Drancy is the 73rd most populous town in France in 2026 and the 6th most populous in the Seine-Saint-Denis department, out of 39 communes. It covers 7.76 km² (23,355th largest area in France, 8th largest in the department), with a population density of 9,353 inhabitants per km², or 85 times the national average (110 inhabitants/km²), which ranks it 48th in France for density.
Drancy is located in the Seine-Saint-Denis department (93), in the Île-de-France region, where it ranks 19th 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: Aubervilliers (pop. 88,529), Aulnay-sous-Bois (pop. 87,951), Noisy-le-Grand (pop. 73,408), Le Blanc-Mesnil (pop. 62,547), Pantin (pop. 62,083), Bobigny (pop. 57,035).
Sources: INSEE, official population figures in force on January 1, 2026 (total population); areas: IGN / Observatoire des territoires; INSEE code 93029. Rankings are calculated across the 34,858 communes of metropolitan and overseas France in our database.
Drancy, a major city in the northeastern Paris suburbs
Drancy, the sixth-largest town in Seine-Saint-Denis by population, is a dense town in the northeastern suburbs of Paris, next to Le Bourget and Bobigny. Neither a prefecture nor a subprefecture, it grew with the rapid urbanization of the first half of the 20th century.
From housing subdivisions to the Cité de la Muette
A farming village until the end of the 19th century, Drancy was covered between the wars with subdivisions of detached houses and with one of the first large-scale social housing developments in France, the Cité de la Muette, built in the early 1930s. From 1941 to 1944, this same complex became the Drancy internment camp, from which most of the convoys deporting the Jews of France departed; a memorial and the Bobigny deportation station preserve that memory. After the war, the construction of new apartment buildings further increased the population of a town that is now very dense, mixing detached houses and apartment blocks.