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Grenoble Urban Unit

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