Noisy-le-Grand Population and Area (Seine-Saint-Denis)
Largest city in France 2026: up-to-date figures for Noisy-le-Grand (Seine-Saint-Denis)
Noisy-le-Grand: Population and Area
With 73,408 inhabitants (INSEE total population in force on January 1, 2026), Noisy-le-Grand is the 72nd most populous town in France in 2026 and the 5th most populous in the Seine-Saint-Denis department, out of 39 communes. It covers 13 km² (14,498th largest area in France, 4th largest in the department), with a population density of 5,669 inhabitants per km², or 52 times the national average (110 inhabitants/km²), which ranks it 115th in France for density.
Noisy-le-Grand is located in the Seine-Saint-Denis department (93), in the Île-de-France region, where it ranks 18th 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: Montreuil (pop. 112,549), Aubervilliers (pop. 88,529), Aulnay-sous-Bois (pop. 87,951), Drancy (pop. 72,583), Le Blanc-Mesnil (pop. 62,547), Pantin (pop. 62,083).
Sources: INSEE, official population figures in force on January 1, 2026 (total population); areas: IGN / Observatoire des territoires; INSEE code 93051. Rankings are calculated across the 34,858 communes of metropolitan and overseas France in our database.
Noisy-le-Grand, a large new town
Noisy-le-Grand, the fifth most populous town in Seine-Saint-Denis, owes its size to the new town of Marne-la-Vallée, of which it forms the first sector, east of Paris. A rural market town until the 1960s, it saw its population multiply within a single generation.
Mont d'Est, Abraxas and the RER A
From the 1970s onward, Noisy-le-Grand welcomed the Mont d'Est business district, a large shopping center and housing complexes with spectacular architecture, such as Ricardo Bofill's Espaces d'Abraxas, often used as a film location. The RER A, which connects the town to central Paris, supported this rapid growth. Unlike the inner-ring towns built up as early as the 19th century, Noisy-le-Grand retains vast green spaces and older neighborhoods of detached houses along the Marne, which gives it a more moderate density than most of the department's large towns.