Villejuif Population and Area (Val-de-Marne)
Largest city in France 2026: up-to-date figures for Villejuif (Val-de-Marne)
Villejuif: Population and Area
With 60,473 inhabitants (INSEE total population in force on January 1, 2026), Villejuif is the 99th most populous town in France in 2026 and the 6th most populous in the Val-de-Marne department, out of 47 communes. It covers 5.34 km² (28,850th largest area in France, 20th largest in the department), with a population density of 11,325 inhabitants per km², or 103 times the national average (110 inhabitants/km²), which ranks it 36th in France for density.
Villejuif is located in the Val-de-Marne department (94), in the Île-de-France region, where it ranks 30th 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: Champigny-sur-Marne (pop. 78,400), Saint-Maur-des-Fossés (pop. 77,413), Ivry-sur-Seine (pop. 65,263), Maisons-Alfort (pop. 57,144), Fontenay-sous-Bois (pop. 54,209), Vincennes (pop. 48,644).
Sources: INSEE, official population figures in force on January 1, 2026 (total population); areas: IGN / Observatoire des territoires; INSEE code 94076. Rankings are calculated across the 34,858 communes of metropolitan and overseas France in our database.
Villejuif, a major health care city south of Paris
A few kilometers south of Paris, on a plateau overlooking the Seine valley, Villejuif is one of the most populous towns in the Val-de-Marne department, on a territory of just a few square kilometers, which makes it a very dense city.
Hospitals, research and Grand Paris
The size of Villejuif owes much to its major health care institutions: the Gustave-Roussy Institute, one of the leading cancer centers in Europe, and the Paul-Guiraud hospital employ thousands of people there. Once a market-gardening town, Villejuif became urbanized in the 20th century with the arrival of the metro and the construction of large housing projects. It is now one of the key nodes of the Grand Paris Express, with the Villejuif–Institut Gustave-Roussy station at the junction of lines 14 and 15, around which a new district devoted to health and research is taking shape.