The average price per m² in Drancy is 3 640 €/m² for an apartment, based on actual notarised (DVF) sales. About 224 transactions are recorded each year.
Ambience illustration of the residential districts of Drancy.
The average price recorded in Drancy stands at 3 640 €/m². That average covers a stock split between flats and detached houses, an uncommon situation in the inner suburbs: more than one dwelling in three is a house, the direct legacy of the interwar housing developments. The internal gaps owe above all to transport and to the type of building, the residential streets close to the Drancy and Le Bourget stations not trading at the same level as the post-war apartment estates. This figure comes from the DVF data, that is, from sales actually registered before notaries.
Prices from the DVF file (Demandes de valeurs foncières, published by the DGFiP), transactions actually recorded at the notary at municipality level. Cross-referenced with the Notaires de France - INSEE indices. Learn more about our methodology.
The market in Drancy rests first of all on its size and its position: 72 390 inhabitants over 7,8 square kilometres, around ten minutes from Paris on the RER B. The commune acts as a town of first purchase for households who can no longer buy in the communes bordering the capital. The double nature of the stock, houses and flats, widens the range of budgets and keeps a steady volume of trade, a little over two hundred sales a year according to notarial data. Household renewal therefore happens mainly through resale, new building staying limited.
The second driver is the expected improvement in transport. The Drancy - Bobigny station on line 15 East, whose works began in September 2025, is to link the commune to the employment hubs of the north and east of the Paris region without going through Paris. The T1 tramway and the T11 Express already provide part of those suburb-to-suburb links. In parallel, the districts near the future hub are the subject of urban renewal schemes, which bring a measured but sufficient supply of new housing to change sectors that until now had lagged behind the rest of the commune.
Drancy sits in the lower half of prices in its area, above Aulnay-sous-Bois but below Aubervilliers. The gap becomes markedly wider with Pantin, only a few kilometres away.
The name Drancy comes from the Latin Terentiacum, the estate of a Roman owner named Terentius. The form changed over the centuries, Derentiacum then Derenci, before settling as Drancy at the end of the 15th century. The village was then divided between three lordships, Grand Drancy, Petit Drancy and Sainte-Geneviève. Until the 19th century, the commune stayed agricultural, turned towards the crops of the plaine de France. The war of 1870 damaged the château de Ladoucette, restored and then handed over in 1892 to an orphanage; its park is today a public green space. In 1901, Drancy still had little more than 1 200 inhabitants.
The shift came in the 1920s. The railway and the closeness of Paris drew buyers of modest means: hundreds of plots were sold in housing developments, often without running water, electricity or made-up roads. Drancy became one of the most cited examples of the crisis of the badly served developments, which the Sarraut law of 1928 sought to answer by funding half the servicing works. At the same time, the architects Eugène Beaudouin and Marcel Lods launched in 1932 the cité de la Muette, with the engineers Vladimir Bodiansky and Jean Prouvé: a steel frame and prefabricated concrete panels, five towers of fifteen storeys, a technique unheard of at the time.
Left unfinished, the cité de la Muette was requisitioned. It served as a prisoner camp from September 1939, then became in August 1941 the main internment camp for the Jews of France. Close to 70 000 people were interned there until August 1944, and around 63 000 were deported from Drancy, the vast majority to Auschwitz-Birkenau. The last convoy left on 17 August 1944, the day the camp was liberated. The U-shaped building was completed in 1946 as social housing, still lived in, and listed as a historic monument on 25 May 2001. The commemorative sculpture by Shelomo Selinger dates from 1976; the Drancy Shoah Memorial opened in 2012, facing the estate. After the war, the town densified strongly, more than a third of the present stock being built between 1946 and 1970, and the population went from 1 200 inhabitants in 1901 to more than 68 000 in 1968. This layering explains the present shape: a dense commune of 7,8 square kilometres where houses and blocks follow one another from block to block.
Drancy has 72 390 inhabitants. According to INSEE, the French national statistics institute, the commune totals around 31 100 dwellings, of which 91,7 % are main residences and only 1,2 % second homes: it is a town lived in all year round, with no holiday market. The stock is split between 62,5 % apartments and 35,3 % houses, an unusual balance in the northern inner suburbs. Again according to INSEE, 43,0 % of households are owners and 54,2 % tenants. Buyers are mainly families from the Seine-Saint-Denis and households coming from Paris or from more expensive adjoining communes, looking for a house or a two-bedroom flat on a controlled budget.
The average price recorded in Drancy is 3 640 €/m². It is an average calculated on sales registered in the DVF database, which lists transactions actually completed before notaries. It mixes apartments of all sizes with a large share of houses, which sets it apart from the price of a given property. The value of your home depends on the sector, the condition, the floor level or the presence of a garden.
The two markets sit side by side, which is rare in the inner suburbs. According to INSEE, 35,3 % of dwellings are houses, the legacy of the housing developments of the 1920s. The typical Drancy house stays modest, on a narrow plot, and often needs work. Apartments are concentrated in the estates built after 1946 and in more recent blocks. Selling times and buyer profiles differ markedly between these two segments.
The commune is served by two RER B stations, Drancy and Le Bourget, which put central Paris around ten minutes away and Roissy airport around twenty. The T1 tramway crosses the south of the town, towards Bobigny and Noisy-le-Sec, and the T11 Express, opened in 2017, links Le Bourget to Épinay-sur-Seine. Metro lines 5 and 7 are reachable with a change.
The commune will take the Drancy - Bobigny station on line 15 East, with an interchange to the T1 tramway. Civil engineering works began in September 2025, after a preparatory phase completed over the summer. The opening is announced for the early 2030s. The Avenir and Petit Drancy sectors, close to the future hub, are drawing buyers' attention along with several development schemes.
The quiet residential streets of the centre, around the parc de Ladoucette, and the surroundings of Drancy station in the Économie district are among the best-valued sectors, along with the Paris Campagne district, close to Le Bourget station. The large apartment estates sit lower. Immediate closeness to the railway land and the main roads also weighs on values.
This analysis is published by Immover, an independent observatory founded by Antony Barbier. Data sourced from official sources (DVF, INSEE, Notaries of France).