Are you considering purchasing an apartment in Paris’ 17th arrondissement?
Need some insight before diving in? Quality of life, neighbourhood specifics, housing distribution, and guidance from your apartment hunter…
This guide provides everything you need to know about this area.
The Batignolles neighbourhood can feel a bit overpriced. Your property hunter in Paris recommends exploring the areas around Guy Môquet (near Square des Épinettes) and rue Jean-Baptiste Dumas, where prices tend to be more reasonable.
The absence of tourists in this arrondissement brings peace and quiet. Families love the south for its peace and quiet, the aesthetic appeal of its sumptuous Haussmann-style buildings and the quality of its secondary schools, which are among the best in Paris. But don’t confine the area to the main middle-class thoroughfares: the village spirit prevails around rue de Lévis (in the Villiers arrondissement) and rue Poncelet (in the Ternes arrondissement). Not forgetting the small, highly sought-after squares around the Square des Batignolles. If you’re a shopper, the avenues between Saint-Ferdinand and Monceau to the west are home to some of the biggest names in ready-to-wear, as well as luxury boutiques.
Inhabitants benefit from numerous parks and green spaces. On the edge of the 8th arrondissement, the Parc Monceau, immortalised by Monet, is a true model of elegance in the heart of Paris. In the Mairie area, the Square des Batignolles, with its lake, caves and rolling countryside, is a favourite playground for local children. Finally, the new Martin Luther King Park has been designed in line with the key precepts of sustainable development. The recent development of the Clichy-Batignolles eco-neighbourhood has helped to revitalise the area, as has the new Pont-Cardinet station on line 14.
167,500 residents
€30 500 of median income, notably higher than the Parisian average
44% of families, in line with the Parisian average
65% of buildings were constructed before 1945, the highest percentage among the double-digit arrondissements.
35%
are homeowners
62%
are under 45 years old
60%
have lived here for nine years or less
44%
are families
Construction Years
Number of Rooms
The history of the 17th arrondissement is a history of villages before it became part of Paris in 1860 with the Thiers wall. In the 13th century, the modest village of Les Ternes was surrounded by forests (the ancient forest of Rouvray) and marshes. The construction of the Fermiers Généraux wall encouraged the development of this village around the barrier. The village of Monceau was a locality in the 9th century. Under the Ancien Régime, the Plaine Monceau was a hunting ground with few inhabitants, fewer than 500 at the end of the 18th century. It underwent little development until the arrival of the great Haussmann works. With its wide, open, often wooded streets, it is one of the arrondissements of Paris with the highest concentration of Haussmann buildings.
Batignolles used to belong to the commune of Clichy. It was developed under Napoleon 1st, with houses with small gardens and buildings for the more modest. Finally, at the edge of the 18th arrondissement, stretching from the Porte de Clichy to the Porte de Saint-Ouen, the hamlet of Les Épinettes appears to have been incorporated into the village of Batignolles. The Cité des Fleurs was created in 1847 as a result of the growth of a local railway company, to house engineers and company executives, as well as a crèche for employees. At the start of the 21st century, a vast development project was launched with the creation of the ZAC Clichy-Batignolles: it is organised around the Martin Luther King park and will see the construction of the Tribunal de Grande Instance de Clichy (High Court).
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