Americans in Paris

The numbers

The first figure counts residents. The second and third count buyers who live abroad. Neither tells you how many Americans there are in Paris at a given time, and the buyers are not part of the census count.

A plain reading: the census records 9,243 people of US nationality living in Paris. In 2025 notaries recorded 220 purchases of existing homes in Paris by US buyers who live outside France, with a median budget of 864,000 euros. Rents asked for apartments run from 27.70 to 37.89 euros per square meter per month depending on the arrondissement.

Who lives in Paris: the census

Paris is one commune and one département, so INSEE's figure for the département is the figure for the city. The file counts 9,243 people of US nationality, built from 2,760 people in the census sample. That is 60.2% of the 15,359 in the Île-de-France region and 44 for every 10,000 residents of Paris.

The margin: INSEE's rule gives count × (1 ± 2 × coefficient of variation), with a coefficient of 1.5% for a count of this size. That makes 8,966 to 9,520. INSEE built its table for whole communes of 10,000 inhabitants or more, so for one nationality the interval is a guide and not an exact bound.

The count is of nationality. A person with French and American nationality counts as French, so dual nationals are not in it. People who live in France for less than a year, such as students on one semester, are not counted either. The census is collected over five years, and RP2023 includes the 2024 collection, which changed method, so the count is not set against earlier censuses. The page Americans in France by region gives the full reading rules and the other regions and départements.

Who buys in Paris: the notaries

The Notaires du Grand Paris press release of 25 June 2026 counts purchases of existing homes in 2025, from ADSN-BIEN data. It splits buyers who live outside France in two: foreign nationals and French nationals living abroad. Its own footnote defines the group this way, and the US figures are inside the foreign group.

The release says Paris holds 60% of the purchases by buyers who live outside France in the region, with 1,610 purchases, or 6.9% of the sales made in Paris. It ranks Americans first among foreign buyers living outside France, in Paris and in the region. In Paris the next four are Italians, Lebanese, Germans and Belgians. The median surface bought by US buyers in Paris is 65 m².

What this does not tell you: whether a buyer then lives in the home, rents it out or uses it a few weeks a year, and how many Americans who live in France bought. The release counts the buyer's residence at the time of purchase, and an American who lives in Paris is in the census count and not in this one.

What an apartment rents for

The ministry's rent map, published by ANIL, gives an asking rent for each of the 20 arrondissements: euros per square meter per month, charges included, for an unfurnished apartment first advertised in the third quarter of 2025. The file has no line for Paris as a whole, only the arrondissements. The rents come from a statistical model fitted on listings of leboncoin and Groupe SeLoger. They are not median rents and they describe new lettings, not leases already running.

The monthly figure is the rent per m² times the ministry's reference surface for apartments of all sizes, 52 m². It is arithmetic on ANIL's figure, not a rent ANIL published, and a real apartment of another size will differ. "Listings" is the number of listings behind the arrondissement's figure. R² says how closely the model follows the listings of the same place; the ministry judges a model good above 0.5, and here it runs from 0.834 to 0.960. In every arrondissement the figure rests on the arrondissement itself and not on a group of neighbors.

The highest asking rent is in the 6th arrondissement at 37.89 euros per m², and the lowest in the 19th arrondissement at 27.70. The map shows no trend and the ministry says it cannot: each edition groups communes differently, so do not set these figures against an older edition. To compare Paris with another city, use France rent by commune.

How to cite these figures

Each source asks for its own credit. For INSEE, whose data is under the Licence Ouverte 2.0:

Source : Insee, recensement de la population 2023, fichier détail « Individus localisés à la région », https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/9004831, consulté le 28 October 2026.

For the notaries' release:

Notaires du Grand Paris, communiqué de presse du 25 juin 2026 (données ADSN-BIEN), https://www.labase-lextenso.fr/documents/standard/ngp-communique-25-06-2026-6a3d39e0c38e0776349253.pdf, consulté le 28 October 2026.

For the rents, ANIL asks for this credit:

Estimations ANIL, à partir des données du Groupe SeLoger et de leboncoin. Carte des loyers, indicateurs de loyers d'annonce par commune en 2025, https://www.data.gouv.fr/datasets/693aa2feed1bf4da603faa49/, consulté le 28 October 2026.

The census counts are INSEE's weights summed by us and the intervals are our application of INSEE's rule. The monthly rents are our arithmetic on ANIL's figures. None of the three bodies has reviewed them. To cite this page:

EasyFranceNow, "Americans in Paris: what the official figures say", https://easyfrancenow.com/data/americans-in-paris, data read 28 October 2026.

Download all the figures as a CSV. Each row is one figure with its place, interval, source, source address and the day it was read.

Sources and method

• Census count. INSEE, census 2023, detail file "Individus localisés à la région": the weight of every person whose nationality code is 840 (Américains, USA) and whose département is Paris. We read the publication page and the file on 28 October 2026. The note on precision (September 2023) gives the coefficient of variation: fiche-precision.pdf (September 2023), communes of 10,000 inhabitants or more in metropolitan France, RP2018.
• Home purchases. The press release of 25 June 2026 of the Notaires du Grand Paris, from the ADSN-BIEN database. The scope is purchases of existing homes in Île-de-France in 2025 by buyers living outside France. We read the PDF on 28 October 2026 and copy its figures for Paris and for the region.
• Rents. "Carte des loyers", asking rents by commune in 2025, ministry of ecological transition, Licence Ouverte 2.0, updated 11 December 2025, read on 28 October 2026. The ANIL methodological note lists the listings used and the limits.
• What we do not do. We add no figure of our own beyond the sums, shares, intervals and monthly products described above. We do not add the census count to the buyers, and we do not give a number of Americans present in Paris at any time. The script that builds the page's data is in the project.

Other pages with these figures: Americans in France by region, Americans in Nice and Americans in France: the official numbers. Guides: renting in Paris as an American. Reporters: the press page sums up the main figures, with the contact. How we check facts in general is on how we verify.

What each number means: the definitions of every measure on these pages, from the publishers' own metadata.