Chaville

Chaville
Chaville
Commune
	The town hall of Chaville
	Coat of arms
	Location (in red) within Paris inner suburbs
	Location of Chaville
	Chaville Chaville
	Coordinates: 48°48′31″N 2°11′19″E / 48.8086°N 2.1886°E
Country	France
Region	Île-de-France
Department	Hauts-de-Seine
Arrondissement	Boulogne-Billancourt
Canton	Meudon
Intercommunality	Grand Paris; EPT Grand Paris Seine Ouest
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Jean-Jacques Guillet
Area 1	3.55 km2 (1.37 sq mi)
Population (2022)	20,198
• Density	5,700/km2 (15,000/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	92022 /92370
Elevation	63–173 m (207–568 ft)
	1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Chaville (French pronunciation: [ʃavil] ^ⓘ) is a commune in the Hauts-de-Seine department and Île-de-France region of north-central France. It lies some 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) from the centre of Paris in the south-western suburbs of the French capital.

Geography

Chaville is bordered by the following communes (clockwise from the north):

Roughly 44% of the territory of the commune, situated between the forest of Meudon to the south-east and the forest of Fausses-Reposes to the north-west, is wooded.

History

Chaville was founded in the 9th century by Inchadus, Bishop of Paris. The earliest recorded form of the name is Inchadi villa.

Population

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1793	537	—
1800	537	+0.00%
1806	650	+3.23%
1821	794	+1.34%
1831	1,385	+5.72%
1836	1,526	+1.96%
1841	1,562	+0.47%
1846	1,770	+2.53%
1851	1,806	+0.40%
1856	1,822	+0.18%
1861	2,330	+5.04%
1866	2,543	+1.76%
1872	2,310	−1.59%
1876	2,361	+0.55%
1881	2,564	+1.66%
1886	2,924	+2.66%
1891	2,842	−0.57%
1896	3,028	+1.28%

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1901	3,633	+3.71%
1906	3,758	+0.68%
1911	4,321	+2.83%
1921	6,465	+4.11%
1926	8,727	+6.18%
1931	10,948	+4.64%
1936	12,474	+2.64%
1946	13,226	+0.59%
1954	14,508	+1.16%
1962	16,787	+1.84%
1968	17,476	+0.67%
1975	19,086	+1.27%
1982	17,914	−0.90%
1990	17,784	−0.09%
1999	17,966	+0.11%
2007	18,576	+0.42%
2012	19,343	+0.81%
2017	20,520	+1.19%

Source: EHESS^[3] and INSEE (1968-2017)^[4]

Transport

Chaville is located on route D910 between Paris and Versailles. It is served by three railway stations and one bus line:

Gare de Chaville-Rive-Droite, on the Transilien suburban rail line from Paris-Saint-Lazare to Versailles-Rive-Droite
Gare de Chaville-Rive-Gauche, on the Transilien suburban rail line from Paris-Montparnasse to Rambouillet
Chaville-Vélizy station on Paris RER line C
RATP Bus line 171 [fr]

Education

As of 2016^[update] there are five preschools (maternelles) with 730 students total: Les Iris, Les Jacinthes, Le Muguet, Les Myosotis, and Les Pâquerettes^[5] As of the same year there are three elementary schools with 1,000 students total: Anatole France, Paul Bert, and Ferdinand Buisson.^[6] There is one junior high school, Collège Jean Moulin de Chaville.^[7]

It is served by the public high school/sixth-form college Lycée Jean Pierre Vernant in Sèvres.^[8]^[9]

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References

^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 2 December 2020.
^ "Populations de référence 2022" (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 19 December 2024.
^ Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Chaville, EHESS (in French).
^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
^ "Écoles maternelles." Chaville. Retrieved on September 7, 2016.
^ "Écoles élémentaires." Chaville. Retrieved on September 7, 2016.
^ "Collège." Chaville. Retrieved on September 7, 2016.
^ Home page. Lycée Jean Pierre Vernant. Retrieved on September 7, 2016. [...]qui relèvent de la zone de desserte du lycée ( communes de Sèvres, Ville d’Avray, Chaville, Saint -Cloud) [...]
^ "Lycée." Chaville. Retrieved on September 7, 2016.