The average price per m² in Dugny is 3 074 €/m² for an apartment, based on actual notarised (DVF) sales. About 27 transactions are recorded each year.
Dugny, a commune of the Seine-Saint-Denis north of Paris, marked by its aviation history linked to Le Bourget and by the neighbouring Georges-Valbon departmental park.
Apartments in Dugny sell at an average price of around 3 074 €/m², based on sales actually signed before notaries (DVF data). A commune of the inner suburbs north of Paris, Dugny shows a stock overwhelmingly made up of apartments, with a high proportion of social housing inherited from post-war reconstruction, a few sectors of detached houses and new schemes born of the media village development. The price shown is a town-wide average: the condition of the property, the floor level, the sector and the energy performance create appreciable gaps. This marker drawn from completed sales should be refined on comparable properties for a precise valuation.
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 Dugny is carried by its position in the north of the inner suburbs and by the large development projects. The population has grown by around 9 % since 2017, the arrival of the T11 tramway in 2017 improved transport, and the media village of the 2024 Games, converted into housing, brought new schemes. Closeness to the employment hub and airport of Le Bourget, together with the Grand Paris projects, keep demand alive from households looking for prices more affordable than elsewhere in the inner suburbs, at a pace of around thirty apartment sales a year.
Internal gaps stay marked. New or recent homes from the latest schemes and properties close to the tramway hold up better than the older apartments of the large estates, whose variable energy performance now weighs in negotiations: a home well rated on the energy certificate sells more easily. The large share of social housing and the make-up of the stock pull the town-wide average down compared with communes better linked to Paris. For a seller, the condition of the property, its energy rating and its sector count as much as the average, hence the value of a tailored valuation.
With its average apartment price, Dugny sits between more expensive neighbours such as Le Bourget and Aubervilliers and more affordable sectors such as Stains, in the north of the Seine-Saint-Denis.
Dugny takes its name from the Latin Duniacum, the estate of a certain Dunius, a Gallo-Roman owner. The place is mentioned in the records as early as 832. In the Middle Ages, the priory of Saint-Martin-des-Champs held the church and property there in 1119, before the lordship was handed to the abbey of Saint-Denis in 1216; in 1443, it was confiscated by King Henry VI of England during the Hundred Years' War. In the 17th century, three mills turned on the Croult and the village, of around two hundred inhabitants, then took in the hamlets of Le Bourget and Pont-Yblon.
Long rural, Dugny remained a modest village: its population went from 328 inhabitants in 1806 to 611 in 1866. The Franco-Prussian war of 1870 laid it waste and the church was destroyed. Its fate turned with aviation: the neighbouring Le Bourget airfield, developed from the First World War, fixed the commune's activity. In the 1930s, urban growth sped up with the Eguillez garden city, built in 1932, and the workers' estates of Pont-Yblon in 1933. In 1943, Allied bombing aimed at the aviation installations destroyed close to 95 % of the commune, which would receive the Croix de guerre in 1948.
Post-war reconstruction entirely redrew Dugny, with vast estates of flats, including a large share of social housing. The commune borders the Georges-Valbon departmental park, at La Courneuve, one of the largest green spaces in the Paris region. Since 2017, the Dugny - La Courneuve stop on the T11 tramway has linked the commune to the rest of the inner suburbs. The development of the media village for the Paris 2024 Games, carried out with Le Bourget and La Courneuve, came with a footbridge over the A1 motorway opened in 2023; converted after the Games, this new district brings housing and moves Dugny closer to the Grand Paris projects.
Dugny has around 11 700 inhabitants, a population up by around 9 % since 2017. According to INSEE, the French national statistics institute, the housing stock is overwhelmingly made up of flats, with close to 90,5 % apartments, and 94,1 % of dwellings are main residences: people live in Dugny all year round, rarely as a second home. The share of social housing there is high and tenants are in the majority. The buying market draws above all inner-suburb households and first-time buyers looking for prices more measured than in Paris or than in better-served communes, along with buyers attracted by the arrival of new housing and by transport projects.
The average price of an apartment stands at around 3 074 €/m² in Dugny, based on sales actually signed before notaries (DVF data). It is a town-wide average: a recent property, well rated on the energy certificate or close to the tramway, sits rather above, an older home in need of renovation below. The floor level, the condition, the floor area and the immediate surroundings move that figure. For a reliable valuation, it is better to start from comparable properties close to your address.
In part. With an average apartment price of around 3 074 €/m², Dugny sits in the low to middle range of the northern Seine-Saint-Denis: more measured than communes better linked to Paris, a little above the most affordable sectors of the department. The strong presence of social housing and the make-up of the stock weigh on the average. Gaps from one property to another remain wide depending on the sector and the condition.
Since 2017, the Dugny - La Courneuve stop on the T11 tramway has served the commune and linked it to the rest of the inner suburbs and to the interchanges towards Paris. The bus network completes that provision, and the closeness of Le Bourget puts Dugny within reach of the main roads of the northern Paris region. The Grand Paris projects around the Le Bourget hub should further improve links in the coming years.
The media village of the Paris 2024 Games, built across Dugny, Le Bourget and La Courneuve near the Georges-Valbon park, was designed to be converted into a housing district after the event. It brings Dugny new schemes and public facilities, and comes with works such as the footbridge opened in 2023 over the A1 motorway. These recent deliveries widen the supply of properties and may draw new buyers.
Mainly apartments. According to INSEE, the Dugny stock is made up of around 90,5 % apartments, the legacy of the large estates of reconstruction and of social housing. Detached houses are in the minority there, concentrated in a few residential sectors, which makes them rarer and often more expensive per m² than apartments. The choice depends on your budget and on what is available in the sector you have in mind.
This analysis is published by Immover, an independent observatory founded by Antony Barbier. Data sourced from official sources (DVF, INSEE, Notaries of France).