The urban unit of Grenoble (French: unité urbaine de Grenoble) is a French urban unit centred on the city of Grenoble. An urban unit is a contiguously built-up area with at least 2,000 inhabitants, according to the definition by the French statistics institute INSEE. In the current zoning, revised in 2020, it consists of 38 communes. It covers 358.1 km and has 451,096 inhabitants (2018), population density 1260 /km. The urban unit largely overlaps with, but should not be confused with, the administrative entity Grenoble-Alpes Métropole.
| INSEE code | City | Area (km²) |
Population (2018) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 38045 | Biviers | 6.17 | 2,359 |
| 38057 | Bresson | 2.78 | 677 |
| 38070 | Le Champ-près-Froges | 4.83 | 1,186 |
| 38071 | Champ-sur-Drac | 8.92 | 3,090 |
| 38111 | Claix | 24.12 | 7,921 |
| 38126 | Corenc | 6.50 | 4,053 |
| 38150 | Domène | 5.29 | 6,701 |
| 38151 | Échirolles | 7.86 | 36,961 |
| 38158 | Eybens | 4.50 | 9,947 |
| 38169 | Fontaine | 6.74 | 22,906 |
| 38170 | Fontanil-Cornillon | 5.50 | 2,940 |
| 38175 | Froges | 6.43 | 3,361 |
| 38179 | Gières | 6.93 | 6,956 |
| 38185 | Grenoble | 18.13 | 157,650 |
| 38200 | Jarrie | 13.26 | 3,763 |
| 38229 | Meylan | 12.32 | 17,448 |
| 38249 | Montbonnot-Saint-Martin | 6.38 | 5,306 |
| 38271 | Murianette | 6.07 | 872 |
| 38281 | Noyarey | 16.86 | 2,216 |
| 38303 | La Pierre | 3.31 | 570 |
| 38309 | Poisat | 2.56 | 2,147 |
| 38317 | Le Pont-de-Claix | 5.60 | 10,605 |
| 38382 | Saint-Égrève | 10.88 | 15,801 |
| 38397 | Saint-Ismier | 14.90 | 7,026 |
| 38421 | Saint-Martin-d'Hères | 9.26 | 38,398 |
| 38423 | Saint-Martin-le-Vinoux | 10.06 | 5,799 |
| 38431 | Saint-Nazaire-les-Eymes | 8.50 | 2,949 |
| 38474 | Sassenage | 13.31 | 11,277 |
| 38485 | Seyssinet-Pariset | 10.65 | 12,017 |
| 38486 | Seyssins | 8.00 | 7,783 |
| 38501 | Tencin | 6.8 | 2,112 |
| 38516 | La Tronche | 6.42 | 6,588 |
| 38524 | Varces-Allières-et-Risset | 20.88 | 8,272 |
| 38533 | Venon | 4.34 | 723 |
| 38538 | Le Versoud | 6.35 | 4,876 |
| 38540 | Veurey-Voroize | 12.21 | 1,436 |
| 38547 | Villard-Bonnot | 5.84 | 7,175 |
| 38565 | Voreppe | 28.65 | 9,229 |
| Total | 358.1 | 451,096 |
See also
References
- Definitions: Urban unit, INSEE
- Unité urbaine 2020 de Grenoble, INSEE
- Comparateur de territoire. Unité urbaine 2020 de Grenoble (38701), INSEE
- Téléchargement du fichier d'ensemble des populations légales en 2018, INSEE
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