Grigny, Essonne

Grigny
Commune
Railway station
Coat of arms
Location (in red) within Paris inner and outer suburbs
Location of Grigny
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Coordinates: 48°39′22″N 2°23′06″E / 48.6562°N 2.3849°E / 48.6562; 2.3849
Country	France
Region	Île-de-France
Department	Essonne
Arrondissement	Évry
Canton	Viry-Châtillon
Intercommunality	CA Grand Paris Sud Seine-Essonne-Sénart
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Philippe Rio[1]
Area 1	4.87 km2 (1.88 sq mi)
Population  (2021)[2]	27,257
• Density	5,600/km2 (14,000/sq mi)
Demonym	French: grignois(e)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	91286 /91350
Elevation	32–84 m (105–276 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Grigny (French pronunciation: [ɡʁiɲi] ^ⓘ) is a commune in the southern suburbs of Paris, Île-de-France, France. It is located 21.8 km (13.5 mi) from the center of Paris.

Historical population

Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1793 370 —     1800 527 +5.18% 1806 528 +0.03% 1821 449 −1.07% 1831 457 +0.18% 1836 443 −0.62% 1841 450 +0.31% 1846 458 +0.35% 1851 458 +0.00% 1856 470 +0.52% 1861 515 +1.85% 1866 491 −0.95% 1872 488 −0.10% 1876 492 +0.20% 1881 504 +0.48% 1886 537 +1.28% 1891 583 +1.66% 1896 580 −0.10%	Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1901 704 +3.95% 1906 776 +1.97% 1911 797 +0.54% 1921 835 +0.47% 1926 1,080 +5.28% 1931 1,305 +3.86% 1936 1,042 −4.40% 1946 1,007 −0.34% 1954 1,132 +1.47% 1962 1,719 +5.36% 1968 2,938 +9.34% 1975 25,653 +36.28% 1982 26,180 +0.29% 1990 24,920 −0.61% 1999 24,512 −0.18% 2007 26,637 +1.04% 2012 27,713 +0.80% 2017 28,737 +0.73%
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Source: EHESS[3] and INSEE (1968-2017)[4]

Grigny is served by Grigny-Centre station on Paris RER line D.

The Avenue des Sablons, about 10 km long, is the main thoroughfare of Grigny, a small town in the suburbs of Paris. A new town, developed in the 1970s, Grigny has been the target of massive investment in house construction. The Avenue des Sablons, as the town's main street, gives access to about 4,000 residential properties, and construction is still in progress. Many estate agents and letting agents are located here because of the great potential of the area. It is located in the district of Grigny 2.

The city has one of the highest rates of poverty and crime in the Essonne. There have been riots, particularly in the area of the Grande Borne. There were overnight clashes in Grigny on 6–7 November 2005, which left 10 police injured, two seriously.^[5]

On 8 July 2016, police investigated a burned car and were greeted by several bowling balls, glass bottles and stones thrown from towers. Five policemen were wounded by the missile throwing and it took reinforcements of the National Gendarmerie to restore calm.^[6]

On 28 May 2016, a police car was destroyed and two police officers were injured in clashes with over one hundred youths. Some thirty people armed with stones, bottles and iron bars forced a police patrol to turn back and were later joined by 70 others. A single person was arrested.^[7]

• Amedy Coulibaly, one of three perpetrators of the January 2015 Île-de-France attacks
• Pierre-Paul Lemercier de La Rivière de Saint-Médard (1719-1801)
• Sandrine Bonnaire, actress
• Ronisia, singer

• Communes of the Essonne department

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Grigny (Essonne).

• Official website (in French)
• Base Mérimée: Search for heritage in the commune, Ministère français de la Culture. (in French)
• GIP de Grigny et de Viry-Châtillon: official website (in French)
• Mayors of Essonne Association (in French)

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