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The Val-d'Oise ( 95 ) is a department French, pertaining to the area Île-de-France created in 1968 following a dismemberment of the department of Seine-et-Oise. It constitutes the northern fringe of the Grande crown of which it is the smallest department. It is characterized by its gathering contrasted territory, in particular in its two natural reserve regional, a tourist inheritance and unquestionable naturalness on the one hand and, on the other hand, strongly urbanized zones, the second airport of Europe and dynamic poles of economic activity on the level francilien and national.

Administrative history since 1964

Geography

The Val-d'Oise belongs to the area Île-de-France. It is bordering on the departments of the Oise in north, of the Seine-et-Marne in the east, the Seine-Saint-Denis, the Hauts-de-Seine and the Yvelines in the south and the the Eure in the west.

Chart of the Val-d'Oise

The center and the south-east of the department belong to the agglomeration Paris ienne. The Roissy-Charles-of-Gaulle international airport is also found there, whose influence on the ground extends also a little on the departments from Seine-et-Marne and the Seine-Saint-Denis. The west, formed of part of the French Vexin, remained rural.

The chief town of the department is Cergy, while Pontoise shelters a sub-prefecture. The two cities, very dependant within the new agglomeration of Cergy-Pontoise, belong to a single district, that of Pontoise.

The sub-prefectures of the department are, in addition to Pontoise, the towns of Argenteuil and Sarcelles.

The department counts also other important cities like Garges-lès-Gonesse, Franconville, Ermont, Gonesse, Goussainville, Eaubonne and Montmorency.

Climate

Economy

Resulting from the administrative cutting of the Paris region in 1967, the Val-d'Oise was affirmed quickly like a dynamic department, located a few kilometres from Paris, in area Île-de-France. With nearly 1,2 million inhabitants, an agglomeration “Prefecture”, Cergy-Pontoise, gathering nearly 200.000 inhabitants and 32 Agglomeration S higher than 10.000 inhabitants, the department of the Valley of Oise presents a double face: on the one hand, a space urbanized on all its southernmost fringe, since the sector of Argenteuil - Bezons, to the communes of south-east (Sarcelles, Gonesse, Garges-lès-Gonesse), and on the other hand, of very vast rural areas maintained in production zones agricultural: Mixed-farming and breeding in the French Vexin (covered by a Regional natural park), large Agriculture with Flat strong added value in of France.

Located in northern and north-western periphery of the Paris and its suburbs, the Valley of Oise really profits from a situation privileged at the same time as “a main door” of the Parisian metropolis, but also as an open space towards Northern Europe (Great Britain, Belgium, Netherlands,…).

Moreover thanks to the proximity of Paris, its international character is reinforced by the presence, on its territory, of the Aéroport Roissy-Charles-of-Gaulle, having an integrated station TGV, allowing fast and easy connections for the air and railway passengers since and towards all the principal French and European metropolises.

A dense, rich and diversified economic fabric

If the economic fabric of the department is composed of a vast majority of SME - SME, the Valley of Oise accommodates good number of large firms which exert a key role in its economic dynamic. Head offices and industry groups of national or international reputation chose to be established to with it. The agglomeration of Cergy-Pontoise, the industrial basin of Argenteuil-Bezons (known as banks of the Seine ), and the sector of Roissy-in-France (near the airport) accommodate a considerable number of it (3M, SPIE, BP, Johnson, Dassault, Sagem, Peugeot, Thalès, Thomson, Huawei, Brother, Pilot, Fujitsu-Siemens, Sharp, Akai, Konica, Opel, Rover, Yamaha, ACNielsen, Delphi, Hispano Suiza, Pioneer…).

These companies constitute important clients and call upon a network dense and diversified Sous-traitant S. But a big part of the industrial production of the Valley of Oise is resulting from the many companies of medium size present on its territory.

Those are directed, in particular, towards a whole series of branches of industry to technological vocation: mechanical manufacture and of industrial plants, activities numerical, electronic, manufacture with high added value… The Valley of Oise east thus in the French forefront in the sector of the production of the Robot S.

The territory of the Val-d'Oise is concerned moreover by the perimeters of six Poles of competitiveness in Ile-de-France labellized by the government, in the fields of the “Logiciel complex S and systems” (known as System@tic), of the Santé and the Biotechnologie S (known as Medicen), of the image, the Multimédia and the digital life (known as digital Cape), of aeronautics and space (known as ASTech), of financial industry (known as Finance Innovation) and of the road safety and mobility Durable (known as Mov' eo).

The poles of excellence have been also relayed for a few years by the corporate networks which net the territory, in several fields of competence (mechanical committee, network “Measures”, numerical Val-d'Oise, automobile network Valley-in Oise-Yvelines (RAVY), Réseau Éco-Industries, Val of Oise SAT…)

2.500 hectares of surfaces are currently affected in the Valley of Oise at the zones of economic activities, that is to say more than 2% of the departmental territory. The economic poles of Cergy-Pontoise and Roissy Charles-of-Gaulle thus have important surfaces of grounds for the reception of companies immediately available. Moreover, 21 parks of economic activities accommodate already, each one, more than thousand Salarié S.

In a score of years, the department grew rich of more than 100.000 new employee jobs, one of the best performances carried out in France in term of increase. During ten last years, the Valley of Oise was classified several times in the forefront of the French departments in term of increase in the number of the employee jobs. In 2003, the Valley of Oise was thus the first department of Ile-de-France in term of rate of growth of the employee jobs of the private sector. Moreover, if the progression of the number of employment is faster in the tertiary sectors of economic activities, the Val-d'Oise resisted better than the other departments, until in 2005, with the phenomenon of Désindustrialisation which affects the Île-de-France area.

Since July 2005, the Val-d'Oise obtained the label Technopôle delivered by domestic network FTEI (France Technopolis Undertaken and Innovation), and two parks of economic activities of the department were certified to profit from a recognition as a Parc Technopolis : the Park Saint-Christophe, with Cergy, and the park of activity of Sarcelles.

Economic poles and axes

The Valley of Oise lays out of really complementary economic poles from/to each other, easily accessible by road and railway way since the center from Paris:

in the middle of the Plain of France, and on the territory of the the Community of communes of the West of the Plain of France, the presence of the highway has 16, which gives access to Great Britain by the Channel tunnel, explains the current rise of the zones of activities which marks out the course since the trunk road 1 between Mourning-the-Bars, Domont and Montsoult, around urban centres of quality.
the economic pole of the north of the valley of the Oise, around Persan and of Beaumont-on-Oise, with the rich and long-lived industrial past, is a site of balance on the north-western slope of the Val-d'Oise. Industries metallurgical, but so undertaken of point, contribute from now on to reinforce this geographical sector which offers zones of particularly accessible activities (A16 highway towards the the United Kingdom; Trunk road 184 towards Cergy-Pontoise; Highway 104 towards the Roissy-Charles-of-Gaulle airport). The development of logistic poles and “post-production” in the park of port activity of Heather-on-Oise comes to reinforce the economic outlooks for this sector.
the banks of the Seine , of Argenteuil and Bezons with Cormeilles-in-Parisis, Herblay, the Hoop-on-Seine, are remarkably located compared to Paris and at Defense, including for the reception of new tertiary sector. Thus the industrial sector of Argenteuil and Bezons, which accommodates a university pole, is specialized in the Aéronautique, industries metallurgical and of high technology, but also in the dies of the fine Chimie or the Plasturgie. Seinergies , in highway frontage, testifies to the success gained by recently arranged spaces, and of new programs of office buildings ( River Western of 70.000 m ²) from now on are engaged, while profiting from the programmed arrival of the tram with Bezons, allowing to very easily join Defense and the Parisian west. The parks of activities of Cormeilles-in-Parisis, of Pierrelaye and Herblay offer very favorable establishment appropriatenesses, in a privileged environment.
the Vallée of Montmorency is, above all, a residential space highly required, but the parks of activities of human size of the Communautés of Val agglomeration and Forest and of the valley of Montmorency”, just like those of the other communes of the sector (Sannois for example), located on the axis of the RER, also offer to it a fabric very rich in specialized SME: high technology and Mechanical subcontracting in , Plastic or electronic.
French Vexin, which profits from the label Regional natural park covers meadows of 50% of the total surface area of the department of the Val-d'Oise. This territory accommodates parks of economic activities with human size, integral of the charters of quality environmental, and opened with the establishment of technological companies, artisanal or services.

Cergy-Pontoise, major agglomeration

Built starting from 1969 on a territory about equivalent by its surface to that of Paris, Cergy-Pontoise, the Prefecture of the Val-d'Oise, became, in the space of a generation true a Métropole (200 000 inhabitants), equipped with all the equipment essential to the wellbeing of those which live there and which work there. With more than 4.000 companies, 85.000 employment is available on the spot for a appreciably equivalent Active population.

Located at thirty kilometers of Paris, Cergy-Pontoise profits from the principal transportation routes necessary to its development: three lines the SNCF, as well as the lines has and C the RER, puts the heart of Paris at forty minutes. By car, two Highway S, the A15 and the A86 place Cergy-Pontoise at twenty minutes of Defense. The Francilienne makes the international airport of Roissy-Charles-of-Gaulle easily accessible, and the line of Bus Express train connecting by this highway way Cergy-Pontoise to the Charles-of-Gaulle airport and has his integrated station TGV offers outlets easy to reach for the credits domiciled in the agglomeration of Cergy-Pontoise. These fast connections put Cergy-Pontoise at the center of the development of the north-western quarter of the Île-de-France area.

That it is of trade (250.000 m ²) or about equipment (4 theaters, 11 cinemas, 83 school complexes, 11 colleges, 18 colleges, 1.400 hotel rooms, 180 restaurants, a telecommunication network with very high banc, an airport of business…), the offer tries to answer as well as possible at the request of the inhabitants.

Creation, as of 1991, of the Université of Cergy-Pontoise which accommodates 17.000 students in addition to the 12.000 pupils registered in the universities of management and engineers (ESSEC, ENSEA, EISTI, ITIN, seven Universities of the polytechnic Institut Saint-Louis) shows the will to equip the agglomeration with the assets necessary to its rise. Cergy-Pontoise east from now on the second university pole in Ile-de-France, after Paris.

International orientation of the zone of the Roissy-Charles-of-Gaulle airport

This geographical sector of the Val-d'Oise profits from an exceptional situation taking into account the existence of important road axes (Trunk road 16, Trunk road 17, A1, Francilienne, A16), of the committed realization of new fast connections (looping in the north of the airport of Francilienne, Avenue of Parisis), and of the presence of the international airport of Roissy-Charles-of-Gaulle (airport, station TGV, stations the RER). Inside the airport platform, the existence of real estate schemes representing more than 100.000 m ² of offices ( Roissy-pole ), of a seedbed of companies ( Aéropole ) and of an economic center of promotion ( Datagora Roissy CDG Area ) allow an domino effect.

To answer very a strong demand on behalf of national companies and foreign, several parks of activities, for approximately 1.000 hectares, located on the territories of the communes of Roissy-in-France, Gonesse, Bonneuil-in-France and Goussainville, are programmed by the Information system strategic plan of the area Île-de-France (SDRIF), and accommodate companies of high technology and foreign companies or with international vocation.

In the same way, the the Community of agglomeration Valley of France, the Communauté of Roissy communes Carries France or of the Country of France and the communes like Sarcelles, Louvres, Villiers-the-Beautiful or Saint-Witz, arrange new parks of activities for the reception of companies interested by the proximity of the airport and of its services, by the quality of the road infrastructures like by the international vocation of this strategic sector of the Île-de-France area.

Demography

The inhabitants of the Val-d'Oise are the Valley-with Oisiens .

1.122.000 INHABITANTS IN the VALLEY Of OISE AT January 1st, 2003

According to the estimates carried out by INSEE, the Valley of Oise counted 1.122.000 inhabitants with 1st January 2003, is 17.000 additional inhabitants compared to the census of March 1999. growth of the population of the department has appreciably slowed down for a few years.

DEMOGRAPHIC TRENDS NOTED IN VALLEY Of OISE

- An evolution contrasted according to the departments of Ile-de-France

The notable evolutions of the number of the inhabitants, according to these estimates, concern mainly the Town of Paris, which gains again from now on inhabitants (22.000 inhabitants), Top-of The Seine, which knew a growth of their population higher than that noted during preceding intercensal period (+ 42.000 inhabitants between 1999 and 2003), and the Seine-et-Marne which also recorded a significant growth of the number of its inhabitants (+ 38.000 inhabitants between 1999 and 2003).

It Val of Oise remains always the youngest department of Ile-de-France

According to the localized data of population suggested by INSEE, and brought up to date at January 1st 2003, the Valley of Oise counts the strongest proportion of elderly from 0 to 19 years, in front of all the other departments franciliens. Thus, at January 1st, 2003, one counted to 29,7% old inhabitants of less than 20 years in Valley of Oise, against, for example, 29,2% in Seine-et-Marne or 29,1% in Seine-Saint-Denis.

EVOLUTION OF the LIFE EXPECTANCY IN VALLEY Of OISE

- A progression of the life expectancy in Valley of Oise equivalent to that noted on the regional plan or national

According to the data of INSEE, the progression of the life expectancy in Valley of Oise east appreciably equivalent, between 1990 and 2002, with that noted with regard to average the main road or regional.

- An life expectancy in increase in Valley of Oise

In 2002, the life expectancy for a man reached, in Valley of Oise, 76,4 years, against 82,7 years for a woman, practically equivalent to that of the national average (75,8 years and 82,9 years respectively). Between 1990 and 2002, the life expectancy passed from 73 years to 76,4 years for one man, and 81 years to 82,7 years for a woman.

Culture

See also: Culture in the Val-d'Oise, Festival of the Val-d'Oise

Tourism

Policy

Political personalities

François Scellier: deputy of the Val-d'Oise (6th district) and chair General advice;
Dominique Strauss-Kahn: deputy of the Val-d'Oise (8th district) and assistant of the mayor of Sarcelles. Former minister for the economy and finances of the government of Lionel Jospin;
Alain Richard: mayor of Saint-Ouen-the Alms and former minister for the defense of 1997 to 2002 (Government of Lionel Jospin);
Axel Poniatowski : deputy of the Val-d'Oise (2nd district) and mayor of Isle-Adam.

Administration

See also: Administration of the Val-d'Oise, List of the prefects of the Val-d'Oise

Worship

For the Catholic church: the Diocese of Pontoise

See too

Internal bonds

Armorial of the communes of the Val-d'Oise

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