Villejuif

Villejuif
Institut Gustave-Roussy - Main Building
Paris and inner ring departments
Location within Île-de-France region  Villejuif
Administration
Country	France
Region	Île-de-France
Department	Val-de-Marne
Arrondissement	L'Haÿ-les-Roses
Canton	Villejuif-Est (Chef-lieu) Villejuif-Ouest (Chef-lieu)
Intercommunality	Val de Bièvre
Mayor	Claudine Cordillot
Statistics
Elevation	62–130 m (203–430 ft)
Land area1	5.34 km2 (2.06 sq mi)
Population2	53,240  (2008)
- Density	9,970 /km2 (25,800 /sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	94076/ 94800
Website	[1]
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.

Villejuif (pronounced: [vilʒɥif]) is a commune in the southern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located 7 km (4.3 mi) from the centre of Paris.

Demographics

Population

Historical populations
Year	Pop.	±%
1793	1,362	—
1800	1,137	−16.5%
1806	1,320	+16.1%
1821	1,278	−3.2%
1831	1,377	+7.7%
1836	1,652	+20.0%
1841	1,503	−9.0%
1846	1,587	+5.6%
1851	1,514	−4.6%
1856	1,559	+3.0%
1861	1,813	+16.3%
1866	2,308	+27.3%
1872	1,917	−16.9%
1876	2,117	+10.4%
1881	2,678	+26.5%
1886	3,163	+18.1%
1891	4,294	+35.8%
1896	5,234	+21.9%
1901	5,835	+11.5%
1906	6,600	+13.1%
1911	8,671	+31.4%
1921	11,725	+35.2%
1926	18,751	+59.9%
1931	25,192	+34.4%
1936	27,540	+9.3%
1946	25,359	−7.9%
1954	29,280	+15.5%
1962	46,116	+57.5%
1968	51,120	+10.9%
1975	55,606	+8.8%
1982	52,448	−5.7%
1990	48,405	−7.7%
1999	47,384	−2.1%
2006	51,739	+9.2%

Immigration

Place of birth of residents of Villejuif in 1999 Born in Metropolitan France Born outside Metropolitan France 76.1% 23.9% Born in Overseas France Born in foreign countries with French citizenship at birth¹ EU-15 immigrants² Non-EU-15 immigrants 2.8% 2.9% 5.6% 12.6% 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.

Transport

Villejuif is served by three stations on Paris Métro Line 7: Villejuif – Léo Lagrange, Villejuif – Paul Vaillant-Couturier, and Villejuif – Louis Aragon.

Personalities

• Camille Loiseau, the Doyenne de France from 26 March 2005 to 12 August 2006, died at the Hôpital Paul-Brousse in Villejuif.
• Issei Sagawa, the Japanese killer and cannibal, was an inmate at high-security Paul Guiraud hospital in Villejuif, in 1982–1984.
• Komitas Vardapet, the founder of modern Armenian classical music.

Hospitals

Villejuif has many hospitals on its territory :

• the Institut Gustave Roussy, leading hospital in oncology in Europe
• the Hôpital Paul-Brousse
• the Paul Guiraud hospital

Twin cities

• Dunaujvaros, Hungary
• Mirandola, Italy
• Neubrandenburg, Germany
• Vila Franca de Xira, Portugal
• Yambol, Bulgaria

See also

• The leaflet of Villejuif
• Communes of the Val-de-Marne department

References

• INSEE
• Mayors of Essonne Association (French)

External links

• Official website