🌇 The Best Neighbourhoods in Paris to Live In

Montmartre is a tourist area, with the Sacré-Coeur church on top of the hill. You have small streets with many small shops. Be careful, it is a hilly area.

📍 The landmarks:

• 📸 Sacré-Coeur, Place du Tertre
• 🛒 Rue Lepic
• 🛍️ Abbesses
• ☕️ Rue des Trois Frères
• 🍻 Rue des Trois Frères
• 🍽️ Abbesses

Jules Joffrin is a local neighbourhood, close to Montmartre, with many groceries, bars, and restaurants. It is located behind the hill on the North side, so you may have less sun exposure. It is cheaper to live here compared to Montmartre.

📍 The landmarks:

• 🛒 Rue du Poteau
• 🥕 Marché Ordener, Marché Ornano
• 🍻 Rue de Clignancourt
• 🍽️ Rue Custine, Rue Marcadet

South Pigalle (SoPi) is a lively area where you can find many bars and restaurants. Young and executive people will have a drink there. However, it is not an affordable neighbourhood to live in.

📍 The landmarks:

• 🛒 Rue des Martyrs
• 🥕 Marché Anvers
• 🛍️ Rue des Martyrs, Rue Victor Massé (guitar shops)
• 🍻 Rue de Douai, rue Pierre-Fontaine, Rue Marguerite de Rochechouart
• 🍽️ Rue de Douai, rue Pierre-Fontaine, Rue Marguerite de Rochechouart

Batignolles is a lively area where you can find many restaurants. The upper-middle-class people live there.

📍 The landmarks:

• 🛒 Rue de Lévis
• 🥕 Marché Batignolles Bio
• 🍻 Rue des Dames
• 🍽️ Rue des Dames

Epinettes is a residential area in the 17th arrondissement where you can find local bars and restaurants. It is a cheap neighbourhood where you can find many young people. However, it has only metro line 13 which is very busy during rush hour.

📍 The landmarks:

• 🛒 Avenue de Clichy, Avenue de Saint-Ouen
• 🥕 Marché Navier, Marché couvert Batignolles
• 🍻 Rue Brochant
• 🍽️ Rue Brochant

Barbès-Rochechouart is a busy shopping area. It is the heart of the North African community. Moreover, you will be at the crossroads of multiple areas (rich, African, Indian, tourist) within a 600m radius, and you will be able to navigate Paris fast with the convenient metro lines.

📍 The landmarks:

• 🥕 Marché Barbès
• 🛍️ Boulevard Barbès (mobile phone), Boulevard de Magenta (wedding dresses)

Flandres is a residential area close to the Bassin de la Villette. There are many students because of the Architectural school close by. It is a cheap area to live in with many grocery and Asian grocery shops.

📍 The landmarks:

• 🛒 Avenue de Flandres, rue de Joinville
• 🥕 Marché Joinville
• 🍽️ Rue de Crimée

The Bassin de la Villette is a large water area (you cannot swim there) where young people gather during sunny weekends to play pétanque, and drink beers. If you are avid of parks, you will be close to the Parc des Buttes-Chaumont and the Parc de La Villette.

📍 The landmarks:

• 🍻 Bassin de la Villette, La Rotonde
• 🍽️ Bassin de la Villette, La Rotonde
• 🌊 Bassin de la Villette

Laumière is a peaceful residential area close to the Parc des Buttes-Chaumont, one of the best parks in Paris. During sunny weekends, people will usually picnic, have a drink on the grass in the park, and enjoy the beautiful view.

📍 The landmarks:

• 🛒 Rue de Laumière, rue de Meaux
• 🍻 Parc des Buttes-Chaumont
• 🌳 Parc des Buttes-Chaumont

Belleville is the heart of a very diversified neighbourhood with one of the Chinatown in Paris. You can find many cheap restaurants and bars. You can also find Asian groceries if you are a fan of Asian food. It is a gentrified neighbourhood.

📍 The landmarks:

• 🛒 Boulevard de la Villette
• 🥕 Marché Villette, Marché Belleville
• 🍻 Boulevard de la Villette, rue Sainte-Marthe
• 🍽️ Boulevard de la Villette, rue de Belleville

Ménilmontant-Gambetta is a neighbourhood located on a steep hill. You will be able to find bars and restaurants on the edge of the area.

However, in terms of transportation, you will need to walk in order to go to your metro station if you live in the middle of the area.

📍 The landmarks:

• 🛒 Rue de Ménilmontant
• 🥕 Marché Ménilmontant, Marché Pyrénées, Marché Belgrand
• 🍻 Rue de Ménilmontant
• 🎸 La Bellevilloise

Oberkampf is a lively neighbourhood where you can find many bars and restaurants on two main streets: rue Jean-Pierre Timbaud and rue Oberkampf.

📍 The landmarks:

• 🥕 Marché Popincourt
• 🍻 Rue Jean-Pierre Timbaud, rue Oberkampf
• 🍽️ Rue Jean-Pierre Timbaud, rue Oberkampf

The Canal Saint-Martin is a lively area where you will be able to live the good life: bars, restaurants, groceries, food markets, clothes shops, and the Canal Saint-Martin to have a drink.

📍 The landmarks:

• 🛒 Rue du Chateau d’Eau
• 🥕 Marché couvert Saint-Martin
• 🛍️ Rue Beaurepaire
• 🍻 Rue de Lancry
• 🍽️ Rue de Lancry
• 🌊 Canal Saint-Martin

Strasbourg Saint-Denis is the heart of a lively area with many diverse bars from the cheapest beer bar to one of the best cocktail bars in the world. You will also be able to eat delicious Turkish food such as pide (Turkish pizza), Lahmacun, and dürüm. You will see a lot of hairdressers targeting people with African hair.

📍 The landmarks:

• 🛒 Rue du Faubourg Saint-Denis
• 🍻 Rue du Faubourg Saint-Denis, Cour des Petites-Écuries, Rue de Paradis
• 🍽️ Rue du Faubourg Saint-Denis, Rue de Paradis

Montorgueil is a tourist area in the center of Paris, where you can find many local shops along rue Montorgueil.

📍 The landmarks:

• 🛒 Rue Montorgueil
• 🍻 Rue Montorgueil
• 🍽️ Rue Montorgueil

Opera is a tourist and rich area in the center of Paris, where you can find a big shopping district (Galeries Lafayette, Printemps, etc). If you are a fan of Japanese, you will be able to find many Japanese restaurants at rue Sainte-Anne.

📍 The landmarks:

• 🥕 Marché Saint-Honoré
• 🛍️ Boulevard Haussmann, Boulevard des Capucines, Avenue de l’Opéra
• 🍽️ Rue Sainte-Anne

Le Marais is a tourist area in the center of Paris, where you can find all kinds of shops and restaurants. It is also the heart of the Paris gay area, with many gay bars.

📍 The landmarks:

• 🛒 Rue de Bretagne
• 🥕 Marché couvert des Enfants Rouges, Marché Baudoyer
• 🛍️ Rue des Francs-Bourgeois
• ☕️ Around Le Carreau du Temple
• 🍻 Rue Vieille-du-Temple
• 🍽️ Rue Vieille-du-Temple

Bastille is a lively area with a street full of bars (rue de Lappe). It is mainly for tourists, young and suburban people who will go out there.

📍 The landmarks:

• 🛒 Rue de la Roquette
• 🥕 Marché Bastille
• 🛍️ Rue du Faubourg Saint-Antoine
• 🍻 Rue de Lappe
• 🍽️ Rue de la Roquette

Faidherbe-Chaligny is a local neighbourhood with many restaurants and bars. You will also be able to buy in many local shops. This area is next to Bastille but it has a completely different vibe, with fewer tourists.

📍 The landmarks:

• 🛒 Rue du Faubourg Saint-Antoine
• 🥕 Marché d’Aligre
• 🍻 Rue du Faubourg Saint-Antoine, rue de Charonne
• 🍽️ Rue du Faubourg Saint-Antoine, rue de Charonne

The Latin Quarter is one of the most vibrant neighbourhoods in the South part of Paris. It is the heart of many high schools and universities. There are many lively areas:

• close to the river, there is a lively area mainly full of tourists
• at rue Mouffetard, the lively area is dedicated to the students in the surrounding with cheap prices.

📍 The landmarks:

• 🛒 Rue Monge
• 🥕 Marché Monge, Marché Maubert
• 🛍️ Rue Saint-Jacques
• 🍻 Rue de la Huchette (tourist only), rue Mouffetard (students)
• 🍽️ Rue de la Huchette (tourist only), rue Mouffetard (students)
• 🌳 Jardin des Plantes, Jardin du Luxembourg

Saint-Germain-des-Prés is a very rich area where you can find famously known cafés (Café de Flore, Les Deux Magots). Moreover, you have a beer street for rugby matches, terrasse bars, and restaurants. It is a neighbourhood for tourists or very rich people.

📍 The landmarks:

• 🛒 Marché couvert Saint-Germain
• 🥕 Marché couvert Saint-Germain
• 🛍️ Boulevard Saint-Germain
• ☕️ Boulevard Saint-Germain
• 🍻 Rue Princesse, rue de Buci
• 🍽️ Rue Mazarine

Notre-Dame-des-Champs is a very rich area where you can find many local shops to buy your groceries, as well as shops for shopping.

📍 The landmarks:

• 🛒 Le Bon Marché, rue du Cherche-Midi
• 🥕 Marché Raspail
• 🛍️ Rue de Rennes
• 🌳 Jardin du Luxembourg

Invalides is a very rich area where you can find a local shop street. There are a lot of rich tourists and embassies around. You will be able to have a drink on the grass at the Esplanade des Invalides or along the Seine River. Even though it is a rich area, the price to have a drink in one of the boats is ok.

📍 The landmarks:

• 🛒 Rue Saint-Dominique
• 🍻 Seine River, Esplanade des Invalides
• 🍽️ Rue Saint-Dominique
• 🌳 Champ de Mars, Esplanade des Invalides
• 🌊 Seine River

The 12^th Arrondissement is a residential area close to the Bois de Vincennes. You can find all you need for your daily life (local shops, cinema, restaurants). This is more of a quiet area.

📍 The landmarks:

• 🛒 Nation
• 🥕 Marché d’Aligre, Marché Cours de Vincennes, Marché Daumesnil, Marché Porte Dorée, Marché Bercy
• 🛍️ Avenue Daumesnil, Nation
• 🍻 Around Marché d’Aligre
• 🍽️ Around Marché d’Aligre
• 🌳 Bois de Vincennes

Place d’Italie is a neighbourhood where you can find everything around, with a shopping mall, a bar area, and many Asian restaurants. It is a pretty cheap area to live in.

📍 The landmarks:

• 🛒 Avenue d’Italie, Avenue d’Ivry
• 🥕 Marché Auguste-Blanqui, Marché Maison-Blanche
• 🛍️ Italie Deux
• 🍻 Butte-aux-Cailles
• 🍽️ Chinatown

The 14^th Arrondissement is a residential area with a busy local life during the day (local shops, cinema, restaurants). You will also be able to find a bar street (rue de la Gaîté) close to the Montparnasse railway station.

📍 The landmarks:

• 🛒 Rue Daguerre, rue Raymond Losserand
• 🥕 Marché Mouton-Duvernet, Marché Villemain, Marché Edgar Quinet, Marché biologique Brancusi
• 🛍️ Avenue du Général Leclerc
• 🍻 Rue de la Gaîté
• 🍽️ Rue Daguerre, rue Raymond Losserand
• 🌳 Parc Montsouris

The 15^th Arrondissement is a residential area where you will be able to find all the shops to buy your food or clothes. You will be able to go to the most modern shopping mall in Paris at Beaugrenelle.

If you are young, rents are cheap but you will be far from the bar areas in Paris where young people go.

📍 The landmarks:

• 🛒 Rue de Vaugirard
• 🥕 Marché Convention, Marché Saint-Charles
• 🛍️ Rue du Commerce, Centre commercial Beaugrenelle
• 🍽️ Rue de Vaugirard
• 🌳 Parc Georges Brassens, Parc André-Citroën

The 16^th Arrondissement is a very rich area where you can find all the shops you need for your life (groceries, clothes, etc). The area is calm, and you are close to one of the biggest park in Paris (Bois de Boulogne), which is great for running or biking. For the sports people, it is where you go if you want to watch a PSG football game or the French Open in tennis. In terms of transportation, even if you have the metro and , it is a bit long to go to areas where you go out in Paris.

📍 The landmarks:

• 🛒 Rue de la Pompe, Rue d’Auteuil
• 🥕 Marché couvert Passy, Marché d’Auteuil, Marché Gros-la-Fontaine
• 🛍️ Rue de Passy, Avenue Victor Hugo
• 🍻 Avenue Kléber
• 🌳 Bois de Boulogne, l’Île aux Cygnes

Ternes/Monceau is a very rich and calm area where you will be able to find all the shops you want. It is a neighbourhood for the rich and the upper middle class.

📍 The landmarks:

• 🛒 Rue Poncelet
• 🥕 Marché couvert des Ternes
• 🛍️ Avenue des Ternes
• 🌳 Parc Monceau

The Champs Elysees neighbourhood is a very rich area with many stores and luxury brands around.

📍 The landmarks:

• 🛒 Avenue des Champs Elysees
• 🥕 Marché Président Wilson
• 🛍️ Avenue des Champs Elysees, Avenue Montaigne
• 🍻 Rue La Boétie
• 🍽️ Rue de Ponthieu, rue Pierre Charon
• 🌊 Seine River