Évry-Courcouronnes Population and Area (Essonne)
Largest city in France 2026: up-to-date figures for Évry-Courcouronnes (Essonne)
Évry-Courcouronnes: Population and Area
With 67,272 inhabitants (INSEE total population in force on January 1, 2026), Évry-Courcouronnes is the 80th most populous town in France in 2026 and the most populous in the Essonne department, out of 194 communes. It covers 13 km² (14,823rd largest area in France, 35th largest in the department), with a population density of 5,297 inhabitants per km², or 48 times the national average (110 inhabitants/km²), which ranks it 130th in France for density.
Évry-Courcouronnes is located in the Essonne department (91), in the Île-de-France region, where it ranks 23rd by population out of 1,266 communes. It is the most populous town in the Essonne department, which is home to 1,351,891 people over 1,804 km².
See the full ranking of communes in the Essonne department and the regional ranking: largest city in Île-de-France.
Towns of similar size in the Essonne department: Corbeil-Essonnes (pop. 54,730), Massy (pop. 52,023), Savigny-sur-Orge (pop. 37,876).
Sources: INSEE, official population figures in force on January 1, 2026 (total population); areas: IGN / Observatoire des territoires; INSEE code 91228. Rankings are calculated across the 34,858 communes of metropolitan and overseas France in our database.
Évry-Courcouronnes, a prefecture born of a new town and a merger
Prefecture of the Essonne and the most populous town in the department, Évry-Courcouronnes is a "new commune" created on January 1, 2019 through the merger of Évry and Courcouronnes, two towns that already formed the heart of the same new town.
A large city built in a few decades
A small rural town until the 1960s, Évry was chosen in the 1960s to host the prefecture of the new Essonne department and one of the new towns of the Paris region. Within a generation came the Agora, a large shopping center, the University of Évry, the Genopole, devoted to genetics and biotechnology, and the Cathedral of the Resurrection, designed by the architect Mario Botta. Évry-Courcouronnes remains a young town, dense at its center and bordered by the Seine and green spaces, with a population that keeps growing.