Saint-Maur-des-Fossés Population and Area (Val-de-Marne)
Largest city in France 2026: up-to-date figures for Saint-Maur-des-Fossés (Val-de-Marne)
Saint-Maur-des-Fossés: Population and Area
With 77,413 inhabitants (INSEE total population in force on January 1, 2026), Saint-Maur-des-Fossés is the 67th most populous town in France in 2026 and the 4th most populous in the Val-de-Marne department, out of 47 communes. It covers 11 km² (16,945th largest area in France, 4th largest in the department), with a population density of 6,881 inhabitants per km², or 63 times the national average (110 inhabitants/km²), which ranks it 86th in France for density.
Saint-Maur-des-Fossés is located in the Val-de-Marne department (94), in the Île-de-France region, where it ranks 17th 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), Champigny-sur-Marne (pop. 78,400), Ivry-sur-Seine (pop. 65,263), Villejuif (pop. 60,473), Maisons-Alfort (pop. 57,144).
Sources: INSEE, official population figures in force on January 1, 2026 (total population); areas: IGN / Observatoire des territoires; INSEE code 94068. Rankings are calculated across the 34,858 communes of metropolitan and overseas France in our database.
Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, a large town in a loop of the Marne
Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, the fourth most populous town in the Val-de-Marne department, occupies almost the entire area of a loop of the Marne river: the river surrounds it along most of its boundary, which gives it a distinctive shape and identity among the eastern suburbs of Paris.
A suburb of houses that became a big town
Founded around an abbey established in the 7th century, Saint-Maur-des-Fossés long remained a collection of hamlets and estates. The arrival of the Bastille railway line in the 19th century set off its urbanization: villas and detached houses multiplied in neighborhoods such as La Varenne-Saint-Hilaire, Le Parc and Adamville. With no large housing projects or major industrial zones, the town grew house by house and small building by small building, which explains its high but even density and a population that has remained stable for several decades. It is served by the RER A, which links it to central Paris in about twenty minutes.