Grenoble urban unit
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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.[1] In the current zoning, revised in 2020, it consists of 38 communes.[2] It covers 358.1 km2 and has 451,096 inhabitants (2018), population density 1260 /km2.[3] 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)[4] |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |