September 10, 2026 - In 2014, an analysis by The Washington ... while Muslims constitute 12% of the population of France. The claims in this article have been refuted: the headline figure was based on research in 4 Paris and north regions prisons out of a total 188 by Professor Farhad Khosrovkhavar later said his best estimate was 40–50%, but that data is not recorded by French authorities. Statistics on ethnicity and religion ...

Paris is the capital of France, with a population of 2.2 million. There is an estimated 10-15% of the population that is Muslim, around 220,000 living in Paris. There are an estimated 350,000 Jewish peoples living in Paris, about 16% of the population.

September 20, 2026 - With 13.3 million inhabitants in 2023, the annual population growth rate of the Paris functional area was between 0.4% and 1.0% over the past 55 years. By law, French censuses do not ask questions regarding ethnicity or religion, but do gather information concerning one's country of birth.

January 11, 2025 - The Strasbourg Saint-Denis area in the north central part of Paris maintains a heavily Muslim community, with a strong percentage of North-African immigrants. Shantytowns, or bidonvilles have housed a sizable immigrant population. Locations in Paris’ suburbs include Champigny, Nanterre, and Saint-Denis. By the late 1960’s, shantytowns in Champigny alone housed around 14,000 people.

La Goutte d’Or, a neighborhood ... to their neighborhood. The Institute for Islamic Cultures is in La Goutte d’Or. An estimated 10 percent of the population in France is Muslim....

Paris is known for its diversity, and is the largest city in France by a significant margin. Paris is the capital of France, with a population of 2.2 million. There is an estimated 10-15% of the population that is Muslim, around 220,000 living in Paris. There are an estimated 350,000 Jewish ...

December 6, 2015 - Sheikh Abbas, head of the Great ... in Paris provides the following breakdown: 3.1 million Muslims of North African origin, 400,000 from the Middle East, 300,000 from Africa, 50,000 Asians, 50,000 converts of ethnic French origin, and 300,000 illegal immigrants from unknown countries.7 This ...

November 14, 2025 - 4. Paris’s internal geography: ... arrondissements and other suburbs are repeatedly noted as having high proportions of residents of North African or Sub‑Saharan origin—groups that make up much of France’s Muslim community [8] [9]. Euro‑Islam and academic pieces emphasize ...

July 23, 2012 - Europe. Whether citizens or migrants, native born or newly-arrived, Muslims are a growing · and varied population that presents Europe with the major public policy challenge of

January 15, 2015 - Concrete data is hard to find, as the French Republic considers ethnic and religious affiliation a private matter. Muslims in France hail from a large number of countries, although most came from North Africa, mainly Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia (known as the Maghreb). The first Muslims came to France centuries ago - but the greatest number of Muslims came to France in the contemporary era, in the wake of the colonial wars of independence (1954 - 1962). The major Muslim population centres in France are Paris, Marseille, and Lyon and their outlying suburbs (banlieues).

May 11, 2026 - Percentage of muslim population in Paris: 🇫🇷 1980 ⟶ 5.0% 🇫🇷 1981 ⟶ 5.5% 🇫🇷 1982 ⟶ 6.0% 🇫🇷 1983 ⟶ 6.3% 🇫🇷 1984 ⟶ 6.6% 🇫🇷 1985 ⟶ 7.0% 🇫🇷 1986 ⟶ 7.3% 🇫🇷 1987 ⟶ 7.6% 🇫🇷 1988 ⟶ 7.9% 🇫🇷 1989 ⟶ 8.2% 🇫🇷 1990 ⟶ 8.5% 🇫🇷 1991 ⟶ 8.7% 🇫🇷 1992 ⟶ 8.9% 🇫🇷 1993 ⟶ 9.1% 🇫🇷 1994 ⟶ 9.3% 🇫🇷 1995 ⟶ 9.5% 🇫🇷 1996 ⟶ 9.7% 🇫🇷 1997 ⟶ 9.9% 🇫🇷 1998 ⟶ 10.1% 🇫🇷 1999 ⟶ 10.3% 🇫🇷 2000 ⟶ 10.5% 🇫🇷 2001 ⟶ 10.7% 🇫🇷 2002 ⟶ 11.0% 🇫🇷 2003 ⟶ 11.3%

Answer (1 of 2): It’s probably worth pointing out that the muslim population in the Paris area is maybe not what many people (especially people with a certain political agenda) think it is. The main reason why there are so many muslims here is because of former French colonies - most ...

One quarter of the population has an immigrant background (born foreigner abroad), 5 percentage points above the Paris average, the majority of which coming from Maghreb and Sub-Saharan Africa (57% vs 42%), in other words from mostly Muslim ...

Goutte d’Or regardless of their religious and ethnic background. (over) • There was a strong feeling among participants that certain public figures and the hostile · media discourse on Islam and Muslims have had a powerful and detrimental impact on · the public’s perception of French Muslims. • Paris is home to numerous nationalities. Electoral disenfranchisement is a particular · challenge in the 18th arrondissement with its large non-EU population.

November 23, 2025 - Estimates vary, but most accessible sources place Paris’s Muslim population (city or metro area) roughly between 10–15% or about 220,000 in the city proper and about 1.7 million across the Paris metropolitan region (aire urbaine) — the latter corresponding to roughly 10–15% of the ...

November 25, 2020 - Being the country’s second-largest religion after Christianity, Islam has more than 110,000 reverts of indigenous ethnic French background. According to Pew Research Center, three million foreign-born Muslims in France are largely from France’s ...

August 20, 2024 - A steady annual flow of thousands has persisted under family reunification provisions. This has especially reinforced the Muslim populations around Paris, where one-third are concentrated, and in Lille and Marseilles, which together are home to another one-third.

November 8, 2023 - Geocoded Muslim institutions overlaid on household income data aggregated by iris (French census tract) in Paris metropolitan area. To circumvent the historical lack of official statistics on France’s ethnic and religious minorities, this study focused on places of interest to Muslim populations, ...

December 10, 2019 - It reveals that French people thought that there were 28 percent of the French population that was Muslim, while the real proportion of the Muslim population in France amounted to nine percent. REPORT_DATA_PROBLEMREPORT_PROBLEM_LINK_TEXTORCOPYRIGHT_INFRINGEMENT_LINK_TEXT ... Distribution of Muslims or people of Muslim culture in France in 2016, by socio-professional category

November 28, 2025 - Insee. "French population's religious affiliation in 2019-2020, by migration background ." Chart. March 30, 2023. Statista. Accessed September 14, 2026. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1074191/distribution-muslims-nationality-france/