Ivry-sur-Seine Population and Area (Val-de-Marne)
Largest city in France 2026: up-to-date figures for Ivry-sur-Seine (Val-de-Marne)
Ivry-sur-Seine: Population and Area
With 65,263 inhabitants (INSEE total population in force on January 1, 2026), Ivry-sur-Seine is the 85th most populous town in France in 2026 and the 5th most populous in the Val-de-Marne department, out of 47 communes. It covers 6.10 km² (27,106th largest area in France, 14th largest in the department), with a population density of 10,699 inhabitants per km², or 98 times the national average (110 inhabitants/km²), which ranks it 39th in France for density.
Ivry-sur-Seine is located in the Val-de-Marne department (94), in the Île-de-France region, where it ranks 24th 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: Créteil (pop. 93,813), Champigny-sur-Marne (pop. 78,400), Saint-Maur-des-Fossés (pop. 77,413), Villejuif (pop. 60,473), Maisons-Alfort (pop. 57,144), Fontenay-sous-Bois (pop. 54,209).
Sources: INSEE, official population figures in force on January 1, 2026 (total population); areas: IGN / Observatoire des territoires; INSEE code 94041. Rankings are calculated across the 34,858 communes of metropolitan and overseas France in our database.
Ivry-sur-Seine, a large town of the "red belt"
Bordering the southeast of Paris, on the banks of the Seine, Ivry-sur-Seine is one of the most populous towns in the Val-de-Marne department, on a territory of only a few square kilometers. Neither a prefecture nor a subprefecture, it is one of the densest communes in France outside Paris.
A working-class town in full transformation
In the 19th century, Ivry-sur-Seine filled up with factories, warehouses and workers' housing along the river and the Paris-Austerlitz railway line. An emblematic town of the "red belt," led by Communist municipal governments since the 1920s, it developed an original style of social architecture, such as Jean Renaudie's star-shaped buildings in the town center. Since the 2000s, the conversion of the former industrial sites of Ivry-Port into mixed neighborhoods of housing and offices has sharply increased its population, and the town is among the inner-ring suburbs that have grown the most in recent years.