Sarcelles

Sarcelles
Town hall
Location (in red) within Paris inner and outer suburbs
Location within Île-de-France region  Sarcelles
Administration
Country	France
Region	Île-de-France
Department	Val-d'Oise
Arrondissement	Sarcelles
Canton	Sarcelles-Nord-Est Sarcelles-Sud-Ouest
Intercommunality	Val de France
Mayor	François Pupponi (2001–2008)
Statistics
Land area1	8.45 km2 (3.26 sq mi)
Population2	59,221  (2008)
- Density	7,008 /km2 (18,150 /sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	95585/ 95200
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Sarcelles (French pronunciation: [saʁ.sɛl]) is a commune in the northern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located 16.3 km (10.1 mi) from the center of Paris. Sarcelles is a sub-prefecture of the Val-d'Oise department and the seat of the Arrondissement of Sarcelles.

In the south of the commune, during the 1950s and 1960s, HLMs were built in order to accommodate pieds-noirs, many of them Jewish, who left Algeria due to the Algerian War of Independence.

Transport

Sarcelles is served by Garges – Sarcelles station on Paris RER line D.

It is also served by Sarcelles – Saint-Brice station on the Transilien Paris – Nord suburban rail line. This station, although administratively located on the territory of the neighboring commune of Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt, lies in fact very near the town center of Sarcelles.

Population

Historical population of Sarcelles

Year	1793	1800	1806	1821	1831	1836	1841	1846	1851	1856
Population	1600	1410	1588	1327	1615	1609	1735	1788	1622	1604

Year	1861	1866	1872	1876	1881	1886	1891	1896	1901	1906
Population	1781	1846	1682	1845	2001	2159	2118	2199	2384	2603

Year	1911	1921	1926	1931	1936	1946	1954	1962	1968
Population	2796	3364	5032	6292	7083	6622	8397	35,800	51,674

Year	1975	1982	1990	1999	2008
Population	55,007	53,630	56,833	57,871	59,221

Immigration

Place of birth of residents of Sarcelles in 1999 Born in Metropolitan France Born outside Metropolitan France 61.5% 38.5% Born in Overseas France Born in foreign countries with French citizenship at birth¹ EU-15 immigrants² Non-EU-15 immigrants 5.7% 5.9% 2.4% 24.5% 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. ²An 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.

Twin towns

Direction of the nearest twin town

Sarcelles is twinned with:

• Netanya, Israel, since 1988
• Hattersheim, Germany, since 1987

Personalities

• Mohamed Dia, fashion designer
• Didier Domi, footballer
• Miss Dominique singer
• Eric Sabin, footballer
• Younousse Sankhare, footballer
• Dominique Strauss-Kahn, former mayer of Sarcelles
• Jean-Manuel Thetis footballer
• Frederic Thomas, footballer
• Jonathan Tokple, footballer
• Youssouf Toure, footballer
• Les Twins, "New Style" dancers

See also

• Ministère AMER
• Passi
• Stomy Bugsy
• Communes of the Val-d'Oise department

The church, classified as a historic monument

References

• INSEE
• Association of Mayors of the Val d’Oise (French)

External links

• Official website (French)
• Mérimée database - Cultural heritage (French)
• Land use (IAURIF) (English)