Until 2000, the command post of the French Navy's Ballistic Missile Submarine Force was based at Houilles.

Victor Schœlcher, a French abolitionist writer in the 19th century and the main spokesman for a group from Paris who worked for the abolition of slavery died in Houilles on 25 December 1893. A nursery school, a street and a statue carry his name. The house in which he died in 1893 is at 26 Avenue Schœlcher. The commune of Houilles acquired the house in 2011.

Historical population

Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1793 1,651 —     1800 1,290 −3.46% 1806 1,144 −1.98% 1821 1,227 +0.47% 1831 1,265 +0.31% 1836 1,191 −1.20% 1841 1,156 −0.59% 1846 1,230 +1.25% 1851 1,185 −0.74% 1856 1,203 +0.30% 1861 1,275 +1.17% 1866 1,433 +2.36% 1872 1,256 −2.17% 1876 1,407 +2.88% 1881 1,737 +4.30% 1886 1,961 +2.46% 1891 2,331 +3.52% 1896 2,780 +3.59%	Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1901 3,824 +6.58% 1906 4,946 +5.28% 1911 7,092 +7.47% 1921 10,274 +3.78% 1926 15,153 +8.08% 1931 19,078 +4.71% 1936 19,799 +0.74% 1946 20,610 +0.40% 1954 22,974 +1.37% 1962 26,370 +1.74% 1968 29,338 +1.79% 1975 30,345 +0.48% 1982 29,537 −0.38% 1990 29,650 +0.05% 1999 29,634 −0.01% 2007 30,973 +0.55% 2012 32,399 +0.90% 2017 32,151 −0.15%
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Source: EHESS and INSEE (1968-2017)

Houilles is served by Houilles–Carrières-sur-Seine station on Paris RER line A and on the Transilien Paris-Saint-Lazare suburban rail line.

Houilles has fifteen preschool and elementary schools and three junior high schools.

Junior high schools:

• Collège Alphonse-de-Lamartine
• Collège Guy-de-Maupassant
• Collège Sainte-Thérèse

Nearby senior high schools/sixth form colleges:

• Lycée Les-Pierres-Vives (Carrières-sur-Seine)
• Lycée Jules-Verne (Sartrouville)
• Lycée Évariste-Galois (Sartrouville)

Houilles is twinned with:

• Celorico de Basto, Portugal
• Chesham, England, United Kingdom
• Friedrichsdorf, Germany
• Schœlcher, Martinique, France

• Communes of the Yvelines department

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