Goussainville, Val-d'Oise

Commune in Île-de-France, France

Location (in red) within Paris inner and outer suburbs

(2020–2026) Abdelaziz Hamida^[1]Area11.52 km² (4.45 sq mi)Population30,693 • Density2,700/km² (6,900/sq mi)Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)INSEE/Postal codeElevation56–109 m (184–358 ft)
(avg. 70 m or 230 ft)¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Goussainville (French pronunciation: [ɡusɛ̃vil] ^ⓘ) is a commune in the department of Val-d'Oise, northern France.^[3] It is located 20.6 km (12.8 mi) north-northeast from the centre of Paris, near Charles de Gaulle Airport. Goussainville is part of the urban unit (agglomeration) of Paris.^[3]

Goussainville was the site of the crash of the supersonic Tupolev Tu-144 during the 1973 Paris Air Show which led to the deaths of all six people on board and eight more on the ground and is less than 6 km from Gonesse, the site of the crash of the supersonic Concorde operating as Air France Flight 4590 on 25 July 2000.

In 1974, a year after the deadly Tupolev Tu-144 crash, Charles de Gaulle Airport opened—putting the small commune directly in the flight path of the busy airport. The constant noise was a major disturbance and acted as a "constant reminder of the deadly crash."^[4][5]

Population

Historical population

Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1793 850 —     1800 805 −0.77% 1806 777 −0.59% 1821 654 −1.14% 1831 661 +0.11% 1836 643 −0.55% 1841 612 −0.98% 1846 628 +0.52% 1851 604 −0.78% 1856 573 −1.05% 1861 642 +2.30% 1866 606 −1.15% 1872 546 −1.72% 1876 526 −0.93% 1881 597 +2.56% 1886 612 +0.50% 1891 617 +0.16% 1896 580 −1.23%	Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1901 585 +0.17% 1906 913 +9.31% 1911 759 −3.63% 1921 958 +2.36% 1926 2,556 +21.69% 1931 4,667 +12.80% 1936 6,201 +5.85% 1946 6,789 +0.91% 1954 9,350 +4.08% 1962 13,109 +4.31% 1968 16,197 +3.59% 1975 25,182 +6.51% 1982 23,543 −0.96% 1990 24,812 +0.66% 1999 27,356 +1.09% 2007 30,310 +1.29% 2012 31,255 +0.62% 2017 30,637 −0.40%
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Source: EHESS[6] and INSEE (1968-2017)[7]

Transport

Goussainville is served by two stations on Paris RER line D: Goussainville and Les Noues.

Education

As of 2016^[update], there are 1,718 pupils in 13 public pre-schools and 2,782 elementary school pupils in 13 public primary schools. There are a total of 19 campuses with a total of about 4,500 students.^[8]

Junior high schools:

• Collège Georges Charpak^[9]
• Collège Montaigne^[10]

Senior high schools:

• Lycée Romain Rolland^[11]

See also

• Communes of the Val-d'Oise department

References

External links

• Official website (in French)
• Base Mérimée: Search for heritage in the commune, Ministère français de la Culture. (in French)
• Land use (IAURIF) (in English)
• Association of Mayors of the Val d'Oise (in French)

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