# Bondy

Bondy (French pronunciation: ) is a commune in the northeastern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located 10.9 km (6.8 mi) from the centre of Paris, in the Seine-Saint-Denis department.

## Name

The name Bondy was recorded for the first time around AD 600 as Bonitiacum, meaning "estate of Bonitius", a Gallo-Roman landowner.

## History

During the Middle Ages, Bondy was mostly forest, and the forest of Bondy was a well-known haunt of bandits and robbers and was considered extremely dangerous.
On 3 January 1905, a third of the territory of Bondy was detached and became the commune of Les Pavillons-sous-Bois.
On 30 October 2007, a gas explosion killed one person and injured 47 people.
Bondy and its integration into Paris is the subject of part of the second-last chapter of Graham Robb's book Parisians.

## Administration

Bondy is part of the canton of Bondy, created in 2015.

## Transport

Bondy is served by Bondy station on Paris RER line E and the Line 4 (T4) of the Tramways in Île-de-France.

## Education

As of 2016 the commune had 27 state-funded primary schools, with 6,900 students. There were also three publicly funded lycées, or senior high schools, and five junior high schools.
* There are 13 écoles maternelles, or preschools, and 14 publicly funded elementary schools
* The junior high schools are named after: Pierre Brossolette, Henri Sellier, Jean Zay, Jean Renoir, and Pierre Curie
* There are three state-funded high schools: Lycée Léo-Lagrange, Lycée Marcel-Pagnol, and Lycée Jean-Renoir.
Bondy also has a private Roman Catholic high school, Institut privé de l'Assomption, which has its own elementary school.

## Population growth

The population data in the table and graph below refer to the commune of Bondy proper, in its geography at the given years. The commune of Bondy ceded the commune of Les Pavillons-sous-Bois in 1905.
| Year | Pop. | ±% p.a. |
| 1793 | 650 | — |
| 1800 | 618 | −0.72% |
| 1806 | 653 | +0.92% |
| 1821 | 605 | −0.51% |
| 1831 | 650 | +0.72% |
| 1836 | 673 | +0.70% |
| 1841 | 719 | +1.33% |
| 1846 | 782 | +1.69% |
| 1851 | 815 | +0.83% |
| 1856 | 1,189 | +7.85% |
| 1861 | 1,458 | +4.16% |
| 1866 | 1,623 | +2.17% |
| 1872 | 1,677 | +0.55% |
| 1876 | 2,018 | +4.74% |
| 1881 | 2,280 | +2.47% |
| 1886 | 3,004 | +5.67% |
| 1891 | 3,638 | +3.90% |
| 1896 | 4,457 | +4.14% |
| Year | Pop. | ±% p.a. |
| 1901 | 6,353 | +7.35% |
| 1906 | 5,195 | −3.94% |
| 1911 | 7,496 | +7.61% |
| 1921 | 10,104 | +3.03% |
| 1926 | 15,282 | +8.63% |
| 1931 | 19,452 | +4.94% |
| 1936 | 20,539 | +1.09% |
| 1946 | 19,487 | −0.52% |
| 1954 | 22,411 | +1.76% |
| 1962 | 38,039 | +6.84% |
| 1968 | 51,652 | +5.23% |
| 1975 | 48,333 | −0.94% |
| 1982 | 44,301 | −1.24% |
| 1990 | 46,676 | +0.65% |
| 1999 | 46,826 | +0.04% |
| 2009 | 53,448 | +1.33% |
| 2014 | 53,074 | −0.14% |
| 2020 | 53,342 | +0.08% |
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Source: EHESS and INSEE (1968–2020) :

### Immigration

Place of birth of residents of Bondy in 1999 :
| Born in metropolitan France | Born outside metropolitan France | Born outside metropolitan France | Born outside metropolitan France | Born outside metropolitan France |
| 72.2% | 27.8% | 27.8% | 27.8% | 27.8% |
| 72.2% | Born in overseas France | Born in foreign countries with French citizenship at birth$^1$ | EU-15 immigrants$^2$ | Non-EU-15 immigrants |
| 72.2% | 3.6% | 2.7% | 3.4% | 18.1% |
| $^1$ This group is made up largely of former French settlers, such as pieds-noirs in Northwest Africa, followed by former colonial citizens who had French citizenship at birth (such as was often the case for the native elite in French colonies), as well as to a lesser extent foreign-born children of French expatriates. A foreign country is understood as a country not part of France in 1999, so a person born for example in 1950 in Algeria, when Algeria was an integral part of France, is nonetheless listed as a person born in a foreign country in French statistics. $^2$ An immigrant is a person born in a foreign country not having French citizenship at birth. An immigrant may have acquired French citizenship since moving to France, but is still considered an immigrant in French statistics. On the other hand, persons born in France with foreign citizenship (the children of immigrants) are not listed as immigrants. |||||

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