Arnouville

For the commune in Yvelines, France, see Arnouville-lès-Mantes.

Arnouville
Commune
La Fontaine
Coat of arms
Location of Arnouville
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Coordinates: 48°59′16″N 2°25′03″E / 48.9878°N 2.4175°E / 48.9878; 2.4175
Country	France
Region	Île-de-France
Department	Val-d'Oise
Arrondissement	Sarcelles
Canton	Garges-lès-Gonesse
Intercommunality	CA Roissy Pays France
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Pascal Doll[1]
Area ^1	2.84 km^2 (1.10 sq mi)
Population  (2023)[2]	15,023
• Density	5,290/km^2 (13,700/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	95019 /95400
^1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km^2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Arnouville (French pronunciation: [aʁnuvil]) is a commune in the Val-d'Oise department in Île-de-France in northern France.^[3] Previously known as Arnouville-lès-Gonesse (French pronunciation: [aʁnuvil lɛ ɡɔnɛs] ^ⓘ, lit. 'Arnouville near Gonesse'), the commune was officially renamed to Arnouville on 11 July 2010.^[4]

Population

Historical population
Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1793 340 —     1821 273 −0.78% 1846 281 +0.12% 1872 394 +1.31% 1901 519 +0.95% 1911 909 +5.76% 1921 1,677 +6.32% 1926 4,020 +19.11% 1931 6,285 +9.35% 1936 6,879 +1.82% 1946 6,552 −0.49%	Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1954 7,932 +2.42% 1962 10,227 +3.23% 1968 11,114 +1.40% 1975 11,085 −0.04% 1982 10,530 −0.73% 1990 12,223 +1.88% 1999 12,291 +0.06% 2007 13,215 +0.91% 2012 13,979 +1.13% 2017 14,227 +0.35% 2023 15,023 +0.91%
Source: EHESS[5] and INSEE (1968–2023)[6]

Education

Public primary schools in the commune:^[7]

• Preschools (écoles maternelles): Victor Hugo, Anna Fabre, Charles Perrault, and Claude Demange
• Elementary schools: Victor Hugo, Danielle Casanova, Jean Jaurès, and Jean Monnet

The commune also has a junior high school, Collège Jean Moulin, and a vocational high school, Lycée d’Enseignement Professionnel Virginia Henderson. Lycée René Cassin, a general high school/sixth-form college, is in nearby Gonesse.^[8]

The private school network École Saint-Didier has its junior high division, Collège Saint Didier, in Arnouville, while the primary division is in Villiers-le-Bel.^[9]

Partnerships

The Commune has a Friendship Declaration with the village of Şəkər, Khojavend, of the de facto independent Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (which is de jure part of Azerbaijan).^[10] In June 2019, the French administrative court of Cergy-Pontoise declared that the signing breached French law by exceeding the authority of a municipal jurisdiction and by not respecting the international commitments of France (notably Nagorno-Karabakh's lack of recognition as a state), proclaiming the declaration null and void.^[11]

See also

• Communes of the Val-d'Oise department

References

1. "Répertoire national des élus: les maires" (in French). data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 13 September 2022.
2. "Populations de référence 2023" (in French). National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 18 December 2025.
3. Commune d'Arnouville (95019), INSEE
4. Décret n° 2010-772 du 8 juillet 2010 portant changement de nom de communes, Légifrance.
5. Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Arnouville-lès-Gonesse, EHESS (in French).
6. Population municipale entre 1968 et 2023, INSEE
7. "Les écoles primaires Archived 2016-09-16 at the Wayback Machine." Arnouville. Retrieved on September 3, 2016.
8. "Etablissements du secondaire Archived 2016-09-16 at the Wayback Machine." Arnouville. Retrieved on September 3, 2016.
9. "Enseignement privé Archived 2016-09-16 at the Wayback Machine." Arnouville. Retrieved on September 3, 2016.
10. "Artsakh's President Receives Delegation".
11. Anne Collin. Arnouville : la charte d'amitié avec le Haut-Karabagh annulée par la justice. Le Parisien. 3 June 2019.

External links

• Official website (in French)
• Base Mérimée: Search for heritage in the commune, Ministère français de la Culture. (in French)
• Association of Mayors of the Val d'Oise (in French)