| Bondy | |
| Commune Status: | Commune |
| Image Coat Of Arms: | Blason_bondy.svg |
| Map: | Bondy_map.svg |
| Map Caption: | Bondy (in red) on a map of Paris and its inner ring departments |
| Coordinates: | 48.9022°N 2.4828°W |
| Arrondissement: | Bobigny |
| Canton: | Bondy |
| Insee: | 93010 |
| Postal Code: | 93140 |
| Mayor: | Stephen Hervé[1] |
| Party: | LR |
| Term: | 2022 - 2026 |
| Intercommunality: | Grand Paris |
| Elevation M: | 52 |
| Elevation Min M: | 37 |
| Elevation Max M: | 65 |
| Area Km2: | 5.47 |
Bondy (in French pronounced as /bɔ̃di/) is a commune in the northeastern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located 10.9km (06.8miles) from the centre of Paris, in the Seine-Saint-Denis department.
The name Bondy was recorded for the first time around AD 600 as Bonitiacum, meaning "estate of Bonitius", a Gallo-Roman landowner.
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.
Bondy is part of the canton of Bondy, created in 2015.
Bondy is served by Bondy station on Paris RER line E and the Line 4 (T4) of the Tramways in Île-de-France.
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.[2]
Bondy also has a private Roman Catholic high school, Institut privé de l'Assomption, which has its own elementary school.[6]
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.