Goussainville, Val-d'Oise

Goussainville
Commune
Saint Pierre-Saint Paul
Coat of arms
Location (in red) within Paris inner and outer suburbs
Location of Goussainville
Goussainville Goussainville
Coordinates: 49°01′57″N 2°28′29″E
Country	France
Region	Île-de-France
Department	Val-d'Oise
Arrondissement	Sarcelles
Canton	Goussainville
Intercommunality	CA Roissy Pays de France
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Abdelaziz Hamida
Area 1	11.52 km2 (4.45 sq mi)
Population  (2021)	30,693
• Density	2,700/km2 (6,900/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	95280 /95190
Elevation	56–109 m (184–358 ft) (avg. 70 m or 230 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Goussainville (French pronunciation: [ɡusɛ̃vil] ) is a commune in the department of Val-d'Oise, northern France. It is located 20.6 km (12.8 mi) north-northeast from the centre of Paris, near Charles de Gaulle Airport. Goussainville is part of the urban unit (agglomeration) of Paris.

1973 air show crash

In 1973, Goussainville was the site of the crash of a supersonic Russian Tupolev Tu-144 which had been performing aerobatic manoeuvres in the Paris Air Show at le Bourget airport, 8 km to the south. All six people on board the aircraft and eight more on the ground were killed, and fifteen houses in Goussainville's south-east district were destroyed. Sixty people on the ground were injured.

The town is less than 6 km from Gonesse, the site of the crash of the supersonic Concorde operating as Air France Flight 4590 on 25 July 2000.

In 1974, a year after the Tupolev Tu-144 crash, Charles de Gaulle Airport opened, putting Goussainville directly under the flight path to a busy airport. The noise of aircraft flying low overhead became a major disturbance and acted as a "constant reminder of the deadly crash."

Population

Historical population

Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1793 850 —     1800 805 −0.77% 1806 777 −0.59% 1821 654 −1.14% 1831 661 +0.11% 1836 643 −0.55% 1841 612 −0.98% 1846 628 +0.52% 1851 604 −0.78% 1856 573 −1.05% 1861 642 +2.30% 1866 606 −1.15% 1872 546 −1.72% 1876 526 −0.93% 1881 597 +2.56% 1886 612 +0.50% 1891 617 +0.16% 1896 580 −1.23%	Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1901 585 +0.17% 1906 913 +9.31% 1911 759 −3.63% 1921 958 +2.36% 1926 2,556 +21.69% 1931 4,667 +12.80% 1936 6,201 +5.85% 1946 6,789 +0.91% 1954 9,350 +4.08% 1962 13,109 +4.31% 1968 16,197 +3.59% 1975 25,182 +6.51% 1982 23,543 −0.96% 1990 24,812 +0.66% 1999 27,356 +1.09% 2007 30,310 +1.29% 2012 31,255 +0.62% 2017 30,637 −0.40%
Source: EHESS and INSEE (1968-2017)

Transport

Goussainville is served by two stations on Paris RER line D: Goussainville and Les Noues.

Education

As of 2016, there are 1,718 pupils in 13 public pre-schools and 2,782 elementary school pupils in 13 public primary schools. There are a total of 19 campuses with a total of about 4,500 students.

Junior high schools

• Collège Pierre Curie
• Collège Georges Charpak
• Collège Montaigne
• Collège Robespierre

Senior high schools:

• Lycée Romain Rolland

See also

• Communes of the Val-d'Oise department

External links

• Official website (in French)
• Base Mérimée: Search for heritage in the commune, Ministère français de la Culture. (in French)
• Land use (IAURIF) (in English)
• Association of Mayors of the Val d'Oise (in French)