19th arrondissement (Buttes-Chaumont)

The 19th arrondissement, officially Buttes-Chaumont, covers the north-east of Paris between Belleville, the Canal Saint-Martin and the ring road. It covers about 6.8 km² and had 178,691 residents in the 2023 legal population (Insee), about 26,300 per km². Its quartiers are Villette, Pont-de-Flandre, Amérique and Combat.

It has the youngest population in Paris: 15% of residents were under 15 in the 2023 census, the highest share of any arrondissement (Paris: 12.8%).

The district town hall, the Mairie du 19e, is at 5-7 place Roger-Madec. It handles civil status, identity documents, crèche requests and school enrolment.

• Combat and Buttes-Chaumont: the Parc des Buttes-Chaumont, a hilly 19th-century park with a lake and cliffs, surrounded by residential streets and the eastern side of Belleville.
• Villette and the canals: the Bassin de la Villette and the Canal de l'Ourcq, with walks, cinemas and boating, the Centquatre arts centre and new housing around Rosa Parks station.
• Pont-de-Flandre: the Parc de la Villette, home to the Cité des sciences et de l'industrie, the Philharmonie de Paris, the Grande Halle and concert venues, and the Canal Saint-Denis.
• Amérique: quieter streets with the Mouzaïa area of small houses on cobbled lanes, the Place des Fêtes with its high-rise buildings, and the Hôpital Robert-Debré children's hospital.

• Métro: line 7 serves Stalingrad, Riquet, Crimée, Corentin Cariou and Porte de la Villette, and line 7bis loops through the east (Jaurès, Bolivar, Buttes-Chaumont, Botzaris, Place des Fêtes, Pré-Saint-Gervais, Danube). Line 5 serves Stalingrad, Jaurès, Laumière, Ourcq and Porte de Pantin. Line 2 runs along the southern boundary (Stalingrad, Jaurès, Colonel Fabien, Belleville), and line 11 serves Belleville, Pyrénées, Jourdain, Place des Fêtes, Télégraphe and Porte des Lilas, with line 3bis also at Porte des Lilas.
• RER: RER E at Rosa Parks, with direct trains to Magenta, Haussmann–Saint-Lazare and La Défense.
• Tram: the T3b along the northern and eastern boulevards.

The 19th was heavily rebuilt after 1945: 56% of main residences were in buildings from 1946 to 1990, and only 12% in buildings completed before 1919 (2023 census). Large estates and towers sit next to older streets and recent developments.

Of the 101,500 dwellings counted, only 4% were second homes or occasional-use flats and 10% vacant. Among main residences, 70% were rented, and 33% were social housing, the highest share in Paris together with the 13th. Owner-occupiers made up 27%.

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

The 19th is well provided with large parks: the Parc des Buttes-Chaumont (about 25 ha), the Parc de la Villette with its themed gardens and the science centre, the Square de la Butte-du-Chapeau-Rouge, the Jardin Serge-Gainsbourg and the canal banks.

Crèche requests and school enrolment go through the Mairie du 19e. Public schools are allocated by home address.