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19th arrondissement of Paris
	La Villette in the 19th arrondissement
	Location
	Paris and its closest suburbs
Administration
Region	Île-de-France
Department	Paris
Mayor	Roger Madec
Statistics
Land area¹	6.79 km²
Population²; (July 1, 2005 estimate); (March 8, 1999 census)	; 187,200; 172,730
-Density (2005)	27,586/km²
	¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq. mi. or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
	² Population sans doubles comptes: single count of residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel).

The 20
arrondissements
of Paris

17^th			18^th		19^th
	8^th		9^th	10^th	11^th	20^th
16^th			2^nd	3^rd
			1^st	4^th	12^th
	River Seine
		7^th	6^th	5^th	13^th
		15^th	14^th

The 19th arrondissement of Paris is one of the 20 arrondissements (administrative districts) of the capital city of France.

Situated on the Right Bank of the River Seine, it is crossed by two canals, the Canal Saint-Denis and the Canal de l'Ourcq, which meet near the Parc de la Villette.

The 19th arrondissement includes two public parks: the Parc des Buttes Chaumont, located on a hill, and the Parc de la Villette, which is home to both the Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie, a museum and exhibition centre, and the Conservatoire de Paris, one of the most renowned music schools in Europe and part of the Cité de la Musique.

[edit] Geography

The land area of the arrondissement is 6.786 km² (2.62 sq. miles).

[edit] Demography

The population of the 19th arrondissement is still increasing. At the last census, in 1999, the population was 172,730 inhabitants. As of the same census, 68,101 people worked in the arrondissement.

[edit] Historical population

Year (of French censuses)	Population	Density (inh. per km²)
1872	93,174	13,730
1954	155,058	22,845
1962	159,568	23,514
1968	148,862	21,937
1975	144,357	21,273
1982	162,649	23,968
1990	165,062	24,324
1999	172,730	25,454
2005 estimate (peak of population)	187,200	27,586

[edit] Immigration

"Break at La Vilette" Blv de la Vilette, Paris, 1985, oil on canvas by Philippe Derome

Place of birth of residents of the 19th arrondissement in 1999
Born in Metropolitan France	Born outside Metropolitan France
70.7%	29.3%
	Born in Overseas France	Born in foreign countries with French citizenship at birth¹	EU-15 immigrants²	Non-EU-15 immigrants
	2.1%	4.5%	2.8%	19.9%

¹This group is made up largely of pieds-noirs from Northwest Africa, followed by former colonial citizens who had French citizenship at birth (such as was often the case for the native elite in French colonies), and to a lesser extent foreign-born children of French expatriates. Note that a foreign country is understood as a country not part of France as of 1999, so a person born for example in 1950 in Algeria, when Algeria was an integral part of France, is nonetheless listed as a person born in a foreign country in French statistics.
² An immigrant is a person born in a foreign country not having French citizenship at birth. Note that an immigrant may have acquired French citizenship since moving to France, but is still considered an immigrant in French statistics. On the other hand, persons born in France with foreign citizenship (the children of immigrants) are not listed as immigrants.