The urban unit of Grenoble (French: unité urbaine de Grenoble) is a French urban unit centred on the city of Grenoble. An urban unit is a contiguously built-up area with at least 2,000 inhabitants, according to the definition by the French statistics institute INSEE.[1] In the current zoning, revised in 2020, it consists of 38 communes.[2] It covers 358.1 km2 and has 451,096 inhabitants (2018), population density 1260 /km2.[3] The urban unit largely overlaps with, but should not be confused with, the administrative entity Grenoble-Alpes Métropole.
| INSEE code | City | Area (km²) | Population (2018)[4] | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 38045 | 6.17 | 2,359 | ||
| 38057 | 2.78 | 677 | ||
| 38070 | 4.83 | 1,186 | ||
| 38071 | 8.92 | 3,090 | ||
| 38111 | 24.12 | 7,921 | ||
| 38126 | 6.50 | 4,053 | ||
| 38150 | 5.29 | 6,701 | ||
| 38151 | 7.86 | 36,961 | ||
| 38158 | 4.50 | 9,947 | ||
| 38169 | 6.74 | 22,906 | ||
| 38170 | 5.50 | 2,940 | ||
| 38175 | 6.43 | 3,361 | ||
| 38179 | 6.93 | 6,956 | ||
| 38185 | 18.13 | 157,650 | ||
| 38200 | 13.26 | 3,763 | ||
| 38229 | 12.32 | 17,448 | ||
| 38249 | 6.38 | 5,306 | ||
| 38271 | 6.07 | 872 | ||
| 38281 | 16.86 | 2,216 | ||
| 38303 | 3.31 | 570 | ||
| 38309 | 2.56 | 2,147 | ||
| 38317 | 5.60 | 10,605 | ||
| 38382 | 10.88 | 15,801 | ||
| 38397 | 14.90 | 7,026 | ||
| 38421 | 9.26 | 38,398 | ||
| 38423 | 10.06 | 5,799 | ||
| 38431 | 8.50 | 2,949 | ||
| 38474 | 13.31 | 11,277 | ||
| 38485 | 10.65 | 12,017 | ||
| 38486 | 8.00 | 7,783 | ||
| 38501 | 6.8 | 2,112 | ||
| 38516 | 6.42 | 6,588 | ||
| 38524 | 20.88 | 8,272 | ||
| 38533 | 4.34 | 723 | ||
| 38538 | 6.35 | 4,876 | ||
| 38540 | 12.21 | 1,436 | ||
| 38547 | 5.84 | 7,175 | ||
| 38565 | 28.65 | 9,229 | ||
| Total | 358.1 | 451,096 |