Vitry-sur-Seine Population and Area (Val-de-Marne)
Largest city in France 2026: up-to-date figures for Vitry-sur-Seine (Val-de-Marne)
Vitry-sur-Seine: Population and Area
With 94,393 inhabitants (INSEE total population in force on January 1, 2026), Vitry-sur-Seine is the 47th most populous town in France in 2026 and the most populous in the Val-de-Marne department, out of 47 communes. It covers 12 km² (16,299th largest area in France, largest in the department), with a population density of 8,089 inhabitants per km², or 74 times the national average (110 inhabitants/km²), which ranks it 64th in France for density.
Vitry-sur-Seine is located in the Val-de-Marne department (94), in the Île-de-France region, where it ranks 8th by population out of 1,266 communes. It is the most populous town in the Val-de-Marne department, which 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).
Sources: INSEE, official population figures in force on January 1, 2026 (total population); areas: IGN / Observatoire des territoires; INSEE code 94081. Rankings are calculated across the 34,858 communes of metropolitan and overseas France in our database.
Vitry-sur-Seine, the largest town in the Val-de-Marne department
Neither a prefecture nor a subprefecture, Vitry-sur-Seine is nevertheless the most populous town in the Val-de-Marne department, ahead of Créteil, the department's capital. Four kilometers south of Paris, on the left bank of the Seine, the town was shaped by the Paris-Bordeaux railway that crosses it and by the factories that set up along the river in the 20th century.
A "Red Belt" town that grew big
Sparsely populated in the early 20th century, a land of quarries and of nurseries famous for their lilacs, Vitry-sur-Seine saw its population multiply between the two world wars and then with the large postwar housing projects, under Communist municipal governments that have run the town without interruption since 1925. Large by inner-suburb standards, the town keeps a moderate density, with wide industrial zones undergoing redevelopment. The arrival of the metro and of Les Ardoines, one of the largest Grand Paris construction projects, should further increase its population.