15th arrondissement (Vaugirard)

The 15th arrondissement, officially Vaugirard, is the most populous in Paris, with 229,713 residents in the 2023 legal population (Insee). It covers about 8.5 km² of the south-west Left Bank, from the Tour Montparnasse to the Seine and the ring road, at about 27,000 people per km². Its quartiers are Saint-Lambert, Necker, Grenelle and Javel.

It is primarily residential, with shopping streets, markets, hospitals, offices and the Paris Expo Porte de Versailles exhibition centre on its southern edge.

Local services such as civil status, identity documents, crèche requests and school enrolment are handled by the district town hall, the Mairie du 15e.

• Necker and Montparnasse: the Tour Montparnasse and Gare Montparnasse, the Necker children's hospital and the Institut Pasteur, with residential streets towards Sèvres-Lecourbe and Pasteur.
• Grenelle and the Front de Seine: the high-rise towers of the Front de Seine and the Beaugrenelle shopping centre on the riverbank, the Île aux Cygnes walkway in the Seine, and the shopping street rue du Commerce.
• Javel: Parc André-Citroën, built on the site of a former car factory, the Hôpital européen Georges-Pompidou and offices and housing along the Seine.
• Saint-Lambert and Vaugirard: largely residential streets around rue de Vaugirard and rue de la Convention, Parc Georges-Brassens on the site of former slaughterhouses, and Paris Expo Porte de Versailles in the south.

• Métro: line 12 runs along rue de Vaugirard and rue de la Convention (Falguière, Pasteur, Volontaires, Vaugirard, Convention, Porte de Versailles). Line 6 runs on a viaduct along the boulevards (Montparnasse–Bienvenüe, Pasteur, Sèvres–Lecourbe, Cambronne, La Motte-Picquet–Grenelle, Dupleix, Bir-Hakeim). Line 8 serves La Motte-Picquet–Grenelle, Commerce, Félix Faure, Boucicaut, Lourmel and Balard, and line 10 Ségur, La Motte-Picquet–Grenelle, Avenue Émile Zola, Charles Michels and Javel–André Citroën. Line 13 and line 4 meet at Montparnasse–Bienvenüe.
• RER: RER C along the Seine (Champ de Mars–Tour Eiffel, Javel, Pont du Garigliano).
• Tram: the T3a along the southern boulevards (Pont du Garigliano to Porte de Versailles and beyond), and the T2 from Porte de Versailles to Issy-les-Moulineaux and La Défense.
• Rail: Gare Montparnasse, for high-speed trains to western and south-western France and Transilien N to the western suburbs.

The 15th was largely built or rebuilt in the 20th century: 50% of main residences were in buildings from 1946 to 1990 and 20% in buildings completed before 1919 (2023 census). There are more modern buildings with lifts than in central Paris, and a range of flat sizes.

Of the 152,700 dwellings counted, 9% were second homes or occasional-use flats and 9% vacant. Among main residences, 63% were rented, including 17% social housing (Paris: 18%) and 12% furnished. Owner-occupiers made up 32%.

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

Children under 15 made up 12.6% of residents in 2023 (Paris: 12.8%). The 15th has several large parks: Parc André-Citroën (about 14 ha), Parc Georges-Brassens (about 8.7 ha), the Parc omnisport Suzanne-Lenglen with sports facilities, the Jardin Atlantique built over the Montparnasse tracks, the Square Saint-Lambert and a section of the Petite Ceinture walkway.

Crèche requests and school enrolment go through the Mairie du 15e. Public schools are allocated by home address.