8th arrondissement (Élysée)

The 8th arrondissement, officially Élysée after the presidential palace, runs from the Place de la Concorde and the Seine to Parc Monceau and Gare Saint-Lazare. It covers about 3.9 km² and had 35,317 residents in the 2023 legal population (Insee), about 9,100 per km², one of the lowest densities in Paris. Its quartiers are Champs-Élysées, Faubourg-du-Roule, Madeleine and Europe.

Much of the land is taken up by offices, embassies, hotels and shops, so the resident population is small. Despite that, children under 15 made up 13.8% of residents in the 2023 census, slightly above the Paris average of 12.8%.

Local services such as civil status, identity documents, crèche requests and school enrolment are handled by the district town hall, the Mairie du 8e.

• Champs-Élysées: the avenue runs from the Place de la Concorde to the Arc de Triomphe on the Place Charles-de-Gaulle, where the 8th meets the 16th and 17th. The lower part is lined with the gardens of the Champs-Élysées, the Grand Palais and the Petit Palais, the City of Paris fine arts museum.
• Faubourg-du-Roule and Élysée: the Élysée Palace, the official residence of the President, on rue du Faubourg-Saint-Honoré, with embassies, galleries and luxury shops nearby.
• Madeleine: the Madeleine church, the boulevard Haussmann department stores on the border with the 9th, and office streets.
• Europe and Monceau: Gare Saint-Lazare, the streets of the Europe quarter named after European cities, and the residential area around Parc Monceau, an English-style landscaped park.

Outside office hours, the residential streets around Parc Monceau and the Europe quarter are quiet.

• Métro: line 1 runs under the Champs-Élysées (Concorde, Champs-Élysées–Clemenceau, Franklin D. Roosevelt, George V, Charles de Gaulle–Étoile). Line 9 crosses diagonally (Alma–Marceau, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Saint-Philippe-du-Roule, Miromesnil, Saint-Augustin). Line 13 serves Champs-Élysées–Clemenceau, Miromesnil and Saint-Lazare. Line 2 runs along the northern boundary with the 17th (Charles de Gaulle–Étoile, Ternes, Courcelles, Monceau, Villiers, Rome). Lines 3, 12 and 14 serve Saint-Lazare, Europe, Villiers and Madeleine, and line 8 stops at Concorde.
• RER: RER A at Charles de Gaulle–Étoile (on the edge) and RER E at Haussmann–Saint-Lazare (on the border with the 9th). RER C stops across the river at Invalides and Pont de l'Alma.
• Rail: Gare Saint-Lazare is the terminus for Transilien lines J and L to the western suburbs and for trains to Normandy.

The 8th has some of the largest flats in Paris: in the 2023 census, 40% of main residences had four or more rooms, the highest share of any arrondissement (Paris: 22%). Most buildings are 19th-century: 66% of main residences were in buildings completed before 1919.

Of the 27,400 dwellings counted, 23% were second homes or occasional-use flats and 14% vacant, so fewer than two-thirds were main residences. Owner-occupiers made up 38% of main residences, tenants 53%, and social housing 3% (Paris: 18%). Car ownership is higher than average: 42% of households had at least one car (Paris: 31%).

Many flats are used as offices or let furnished to corporate tenants. Rent control applies to main-residence leases: check the reference rent with the City of Paris tool, and OLAP's market-rent estimates by quartier for early 2026.

Parc Monceau, at about 8 ha the largest city-run park in the arrondissement, is the main family space, with play areas and lawns. The Jardins des Champs-Élysées between Concorde and the Rond-Point offer further gardens, though they are crossed by busy avenues.

Crèche requests and school enrolment go through the Mairie du 8e. Public schools are allocated by home address.