Sarcelles

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Coordinates: 48°59′44″N 2°22′51″E / 48.9956, 2.3808

Commune of Sarcelles
Town hall
Location
Location (in red) within Paris inner and outer suburbs
Administration
Country	France
Department	Val-d'Oise (sous-préfecture)
Arrondissement	Sarcelles
Canton	chief town of 2 cantons: Sarcelles-Nord-Est Sarcelles-Sud-Ouest
Intercommunality	CA Val de France
Mayor	François Pupponi (2001-2008)
Statistics
Land area¹	8.45 km²
Population² (Jan. 1, 2005 estimate) (March 8, 1999 census)	58,500 57,871
- Density	6,923/km² (2005)
Miscellaneous
INSEE/Postal code	95585/ 95200
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
2 Population sans doubles comptes: residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) only counted once.

Sarcelles is a commune in the northern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located 16.3 km. (10.1 miles) from the center of Paris. Sarcelles is a sous-préfecture of the Val-d'Oise département, being the seat of the Arrondissement of Sarcelles.

In the south of the commune, during the 1950s and 1960s, HLMs were built in order to accommodate pieds-noirs, many of them Jewish, who left Algeria due to the Algerian War of Independence.

There is a large market on Sundays.

Contents 1 Demographics 1.1 Immigration 2 Transport 3 Twin towns 4 See also 5 References 6 External links

[edit] Demographics

[edit] Immigration

Place of birth of residents of Sarcelles in 1999 Born in Metropolitan France Born outside Metropolitan France 61.5% 38.5% Born in Overseas France Born in foreign countries with French citizenship at birth¹ EU-15 immigrants² Non-EU-15 immigrants 5.7% 5.9% 2.4% 24.5% 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. ² An 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.

[edit] Transport

Sarcelles is served by Garges – Sarcelles station on Paris RER line D.

It is also served by Sarcelles – Saint-Brice station on the Transilien Paris – Nord suburban rail line. This station, although administratively located on the territory of the neighboring commune of Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt, lies in fact very near the town center of Sarcelles.

[edit] Twin towns

Sarcelles is twinned with:

• Netanya, Israel
• Hattersheim, Germany, since 1987

[edit] See also

• Ministère AMER
• Passi
• Stomy Bugsy
• Communes of the Val-d'Oise department

[edit] References

• Association of Mayors of the Val d'Oise (French)
• INSEE (English)
• IGN (English)

[edit] External links

• Official website (French)
• Mérimée database - Cultural heritage (French)
• Land use (IAURIF) (English)

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