7th arrondissement (Palais-Bourbon)

The 7th arrondissement, officially Palais-Bourbon after the seat of the National Assembly, stretches along the Left Bank from Saint-Germain to the Eiffel Tower. It covers about 4.1 km² and had 48,015 residents in the 2023 legal population (Insee), about 11,700 per km². Its quartiers are Saint-Thomas-d'Aquin, Invalides, École-Militaire and Gros-Caillou.

A large part of the area is taken up by national institutions: ministries, the National Assembly, embassies, the Invalides and the École militaire. The population is older than average, with 24% aged 65 or over in the 2023 census (Paris: 18%).

The district town hall, the Mairie du 7e, is at 116 rue de Grenelle.

• Gros-Caillou and École-Militaire: the Eiffel Tower and the Champ de Mars park, the Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac and residential streets with food shops, such as rue Cler.
• Invalides: the Hôtel des Invalides, home to the Army Museum and Napoleon's tomb, its esplanade, and the Musée Rodin on rue de Varenne.
• Saint-Thomas-d'Aquin: the Musée d'Orsay on the riverbank, the National Assembly in the Palais Bourbon, ministries and embassies in 18th-century mansions, antique dealers and the Bon Marché department store area towards Sèvres–Babylone.

Away from the monuments, the 7th is a calm residential district of wide avenues and stone buildings.

• Métro: line 8 serves Invalides, La Tour-Maubourg and École Militaire. Line 13 runs north–south (Invalides, Varenne, Saint-François-Xavier, Duroc), line 12 serves Assemblée Nationale, Solférino, Rue du Bac and Sèvres–Babylone, and line 10 Duroc and Vaneau. Line 6 stops at La Motte-Picquet–Grenelle on the border with the 15th, and at Bir-Hakeim and Passy near the Eiffel Tower.
• RER: RER C runs along the Seine (Musée d'Orsay, Invalides, Pont de l'Alma, and Champ de Mars–Tour Eiffel on the border with the 15th), towards Versailles in one direction and Austerlitz in the other.

Distances between métro stations are longer than in the central arrondissements, and buses fill many gaps.

The 7th has large flats in stone buildings. In the 2023 census, 35% of main residences had four or more rooms (Paris: 22%), and 54% were in buildings completed before 1919.

The 7th had the highest share of second homes and occasional-use flats in Paris: 25% of the 39,300 dwellings counted, plus 9% vacant. Owner-occupiers made up 41% of main residences and tenants 49%, including 16% furnished. Social housing was 1%, the lowest share in Paris (Paris: 18%). Car ownership is higher than average: 42% of households had at least one car (Paris: 31%).

Rent control applies. Check the reference rent for the address with the City of Paris tool and OLAP's market-rent estimates by quartier for early 2026.

Children under 15 made up 10.9% of residents in 2023 (Paris: 12.8%). The Champ de Mars is by far the largest city-run green space in the central arrondissements, at about 24.5 ha, and the Esplanade des Invalides offers large lawns. Smaller gardens include the Jardin de l'Intendant at the Invalides, the Square Boucicaut and the Jardin Catherine-Labouré.

Crèche requests and school enrolment go through the Mairie du 7e. Public schools are allocated by home address.