HoodEx has analyzed 4 neighborhoods in Paris, Île-de-France, France. The average livability score across Paris is 8.3/10, measured across nature, community, housing, connectivity and quality of daily life. Le Marais currently ranks highest at 8.6/10. Compare every analyzed area below, or run your own AI report for any Paris address.
Paris sits on the Seine in north-central France, its arrondissements spiraling outward from a dense historic core. The built environment is dominated by mid-rise stone apartment buildings set along broad boulevards and narrow older streets, especially in the central measured areas. The housing stock is almost entirely multi-family, with apartments in aging buildings and scarce detached homes. People travel by Metro, bus, bicycle, and on foot across a dense network of small streets and public squares. The climate is continental, with mild summers, cool winters, and rain throughout the year. Greenery is clustered in large formal parks rather than spread evenly, so some districts have ample tree cover while others remain heavily paved. The western arrondissements contain wide ceremonial avenues and institutional architecture, while the historic center retains irregular, small-scale blocks.
Across the 4 measured areas HoodEx has mapped in Paris, the average livability score is 8.3 out of 10 — excellent. That places Paris 1st of the 26 cities measured so far, 1.3 above the 7.0 average across those cities.
The highest-scoring area is Le Marais at 8.6/10; the lowest is Paris 8e Arrondissement at 7.8/10. A gap of only 0.8 points means Paris is fairly even: most areas offer a similar standard, and the choice comes down to what kind of place you want rather than how good it is. 4 of the 4 areas score 7 or better.
Averaged across Paris: nature 5.3, anthropos 8.0, shells 9.3, society 9.3 and networks 9.6, each out of 10.
Paris's strongest dimension is networks — transport and walkability — at 9.6/10, 1.8 above the 7.8 average for that pillar. The weakest is nature — greenery and environmental quality — at 5.3/10, 0.3 below the 5.6 average. Those two are the shape of the city: what it gives you everywhere, and what you have to hunt for.
Against the other 26 measured cities, Paris ranks 1st for anthropos, 1st for shells, 4th for society and 2nd for networks.
The score that swings most from one Paris area to the next is nature: 3.6/10 in Paris 8e Arrondissement, 6.6/10 in Le Marais — a spread of 3.0 points. In practice that means how much green you live next to is the thing your choice of address actually decides here.
By contrast networks moves by only 0.2 points across the whole city, so it is close to a constant: worth knowing about Paris, but not worth paying extra for one street over another.
No single area wins on everything, so it is worth knowing which one leads on the thing you care about. In Paris that is most green space: Le Marais (6.6/10 nature), best connected: Paris 4e Arrondissement (9.7/10 networks), strongest community life: Le Marais (9.4/10 society) and best housing stock: Le Marais (9.4/10 shells).
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Every HoodEx neighborhood is scored from 0 to 10 across five dimensions drawn from the Ekistics framework for human settlements. Scores are generated by AI analysis of satellite imagery, street-level imagery, points of interest and public datasets, then blended into a single overall livability score.
HoodEx has analyzed 4 neighborhoods in Paris. New areas are added whenever someone runs an analysis for a local address.
The average overall livability score across analyzed Paris neighborhoods is 8.3/10, blended from our five scoring categories — 1.3 above the 7.0 average across the 26 cities HoodEx has measured.
Le Marais currently has the highest overall livability score in Paris at 8.6/10, 0.8 points ahead of the lowest-scoring measured area, Paris 8e Arrondissement (7.8/10).
Le Marais scores highest on nature in Paris at 6.6/10, covering green space, air and water quality and natural features. The city average for nature is 5.3/10.
Paris 4e Arrondissement leads on networks — transit access, road connectivity, walkability and reaching everyday destinations — at 9.7/10, against a Paris average of 9.6/10.
Nature varies most across Paris — a spread of 3.0 points between Paris 8e Arrondissement (3.6/10) and Le Marais (6.6/10). That makes how much green you live next to the thing your address decides here, while networks is close to constant citywide (0.2 points).
Every neighborhood is scored 0–10 across five categories — Nature, Anthropos, Shells, Society and Networks — using AI analysis of satellite imagery, street-level imagery, points of interest and public datasets. The five category scores are blended into a single overall livability score.
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Scores update as new analyses are run and community feedback comes in. Each individual neighborhood page shows when it was last updated.