This will give grain to grind to those who denounce a dying capital. Paris is emptying of its inhabitants, notes
a study by the Paris Region Institute. So, of course, it’s not the 1940 exodus, but it remains significant. Based on the 2016 census data, the most recent, Alexandre Floury and Juliette Dupoizat, note that “Paris is losing households in its exchanges with the inner suburbs (- 8,600 households)”. Certainly, and in a somewhat counter-intuitive manner at first glance, it gains 2,600 households from the outer suburbs, but the balance remains in deficit.
And in turn, the inner suburbs are losing households, but less than they receive from Paris, to the benefit of the inner suburbs with 5,900 moves in this direction. The two researchers thus analyze a “movement of household loosening from the center to the periphery”. Moreover, this “loosening continues in the outer ring, where the municipalities belonging to the agglomeration of Paris lose 3,000 households to the benefit of the other territories of the outer ring”.
Move far to get better accommodation
These mobility between territories of the Parisian agglomeration also seem to be part of the cycle of life. It is young households in which the reference person is under 25 years of age, who are most likely to settle in Paris, for studies or because there are more employment opportunities there. But from the age of 30, as they grow, “households gradually move away from the heart of the region”. In detail, “Paris wins young households under 30 with the rest of Île-de-France (+ 4,400) and loses from 30 years (balance of – 10,000 households between 30 and 65)”.
This flight of the thirties and more towards the outside is explained, according to the authors of the study, because “the supply of large-scale housing, often in single-family houses, is more important and more affordable”. Unstoppable. And the tendency is to go always further since Paris and the inner suburbs have a deficit of 6,800 households with the outer suburbs and that “the rural and peripheral municipalities are for their part clearly in surplus in their exchanges with the other outer suburbs territories. (+ 2,200) ”. Finally and a sign of a certain gentrification, “unlike the early 2000s, Paris is losing more households with Seine-Saint-Denis than with Hauts-de-Seine”.