Monograph of the Mairie de Saint-Ouen railway station district (2025)
The ZAC des Docks de Saint-Ouen is one of the largest project areas in the Greater Paris region, covering 105 hectares, including a new 12-hectare park. Nearby, on the northern boundary, the Village des Athlètes, delivered for the 2024 Olympic Games, has played a key role in the transformation of the district, which will continue with the delivery of the CHU Grand Paris-Nord in 2028. The neighborhood is socially mixed, with 34% social housing. The profile of residents is still working-class, but the proportion of managers has risen sharply over the past 10 years, while apartment prices have increased by 103%, one of the highest rises observed in the Grand Paris Express station districts.
Launched in 2013, the Observatoire des quartiers de gare du Grand Paris Express is a partnership tool that brings together the Atelier parisien d'urbanisme (Apur), the Société des grands projets (SGP), the Direction régionale et interdépartementale de l'environnement, de l'aménagement et des transports (DRIEAT) and the Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques (Insee) as well as the Établissement public foncier d'Île-de-France (EPFIF) and the Institut Paris Region (IPR). The aim of the observatory is to report on the urban and social transformations linked to the arrival of the metro, at the level of station districts, lines and the network.
Ten years after the first survey, a new phase of the observatory has begun. In keeping with the timetable for the start of operations, the new studies are based on the same perimeter around each station, with an 800-meter radius corresponding to the immediate area of influence covered in a 10-15 minute walk. They also include the main indicators for comparative analysis.
Seven themes provide a fine-grained overview of current and future urban changes - Living environment - Population and jobs - Housing supply and prices - Local life, uses and new centrality - Accessibility and mobility - Environment. They are accompanied by a simple datavisualization, accessible to all from the Apur website and updated every year.
