Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy

Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy (

French pronunciation: [vɑ̃dœvʁ lɛ nɑ̃si], literally Vandœuvre near Nancy) is a commune in the Meurthe-et-Moselle department in north-eastern France. Its inhabitants are called Vandopériens.

With 29,942 inhabitants (2019), Vandœuvre is the second-largest commune in the Meurthe-et-Moselle department, after the capital Nancy, of which it is a suburb. These two cities belong to the same agglomeration community: Métropole du Grand Nancy.

Historical population

Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1793 572 —     1800 602 +0.73% 1806 648 +1.23% 1821 688 +0.40% 1831 682 −0.09% 1836 821 +3.78% 1841 890 +1.63% 1846 970 +1.74% 1851 976 +0.12% 1856 953 −0.48% 1861 995 +0.87% 1872 1,136 +1.21% 1876 1,247 +2.36% 1881 1,327 +1.25% 1886 1,301 −0.39% 1891 1,959 +8.53% 1896 2,110 +1.50% 1901 2,232 +1.13% 1906 2,598 +3.08%	Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1911 2,867 +1.99% 1921 2,653 −0.77% 1926 3,519 +5.81% 1931 3,942 +2.30% 1936 4,645 +3.34% 1946 5,308 +1.34% 1954 6,466 +2.50% 1962 11,559 +7.53% 1968 19,686 +9.28% 1975 33,909 +8.08% 1982 33,682 −0.10% 1990 34,105 +0.16% 1999 32,048 −0.69% 2007 31,196 −0.34% 2012 30,569 −0.41% 2017 30,002 −0.37% 2019 29,942 −0.10% 2020 29,723 −0.73%
Source: EHESS and INSEE (1968-2017)

The municipal market of Vandœuvre hosts 120–150 merchants and 6,000–8,000 visitors on Sunday mornings. An organic market is active on Friday evenings.

Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy is twinned with:

• Gedling, England, United Kingdom
• Grottaferrata, Italy
• Lemgo, Germany
• Poa, Burkina Faso
• Ponte de Lima, Portugal

Vandoeuvre has institutions of higher learning:

• University of Lorraine which merges:
  • Henri Poincaré University (Université Henri Poincaré, UHP, also known as Nancy 1)
  • National Polytechnic Institute of Lorraine (Institut National Polytechnique de Lorraine or INPL)
    • École nationale supérieure d'agronomie et des industries alimentaires (ENSAIA)
    • École nationale supérieure de géologie [fr] (ENSG)
    • École Polytechnique de l'Université de Lorraine (Polytech Nancy)
• Faculté de médecine (Medical School)
• Faculté d'odontologie de Lorraine
• Ecole nationale supérieure d'électricité et de mécanique
• Ecole de puériculture

• École Nationale Supérieure d'Agronomie et des Industries Alimentaires
• École Supérieure des Sciences et Technologies de l'Ingénieur de Nancy
• INIST (CNRS database)
• Communes of the Meurthe-et-Moselle department

Media related to Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy at Wikimedia Commons

• Official website