Editing Bordeaux (section)

== Population ==
{| class="wikitable floatright"
|+Largest groups of immigrants{{efn|An immigrant is a person born in a foreign country not having French citizenship at birth. Note that an immigrant may have acquired French citizenship since moving to France, but is still considered an immigrant in French statistics. On the other hand, persons born in France with foreign citizenship (the children of immigrants) are not listed as immigrants.}} living in the Bordeaux metropolitan area
|-
! Country of birth || Population (2019)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/6455264?sommaire=6455286&geo=AAV2020-006#ancre-IMG1B_V2_ENS |title=Étrangers – Immigrés en 2019 : Aire d'attraction des villes 2020 de Bordeaux (006) : IMG1B – Pays de naissance détaillé – Sexe : Ensemble |publisher=Institut national de la statistique et des études économiqes (INSEE) |language=fr |access-date=2023-01-16 |url-status=live |archive-date=16 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230116222353/https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/6455264?sommaire=6455286&geo=AAV2020-006#ancre-IMG1B_V2_ENS}}</ref>
|-
|{{flag|Portugal}}|| 15,551
|-
|{{flag|Morocco}}|| 15,207
|-
|{{flag|Algeria}}|| 10,006
|-
|{{flag|Spain}}|| 7,756
|-
|{{flag|Turkey}}|| 4,231
|-
|{{flag|Tunisia}}||2,875
|-
|{{flag|Italy}}|| 2,683
|-
|{{flag|Senegal}}|| 2,373
|-
|{{flag|Romania}}|| 2,197
|-
|{{flag|Madagascar}}|| 1,784
|-
|{{flag|Cameroon}}|| 1,759
|-
|{{flag|China}}|| 1,724
|-
|{{flag|United Kingdom}}|| 1,603
|-
|{{flag|Côte d'Ivoire}}|| 1,589
|}

In January 2020, there were 259,809 inhabitants in the city proper (commune) of Bordeaux.<ref name="population" /> The commune (including Caudéran which was annexed by Bordeaux in 1965)<ref>[https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/jorf/jo/id/JORFCONT000000018592 Modifications aux circonscriptions territoriales de communes], ''[[Journal officiel de la République française]]'' n° 0044, 21 February 1965, pp. 1483-1485.</ref> had its largest population of 284,494 at the 1954 census.<ref name="population" /> The majority of the population is French, but there are sizable groups of Italians, [[Spanish people|Spaniards]], [[Portuguese people|Portuguese]], [[Turkish people|Turks]], [[Germans]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.citypopulation.de/en/france/gironde/ |title=Gironde (France): Arrondissements & Communes – Population Statistics, Charts and Map |website=www.citypopulation.de |access-date=7 January 2021 |archive-date=25 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210125201921/https://www.citypopulation.de/en/france/gironde/ |url-status=live}}</ref>

The built-up area has grown for more than a century beyond the municipal borders of Bordeaux due to the small size of the commune ({{convert|49|km2|abbr=on}}) and [[urban sprawl]]. By January 2020 there were 1,376,375 people living in the overall {{convert|6316|km2|abbr=on}} metropolitan area (''aire d'attraction'') of Bordeaux,<ref name="AAV_pop" /> only a fifth of whom lived in the city proper.
{{Historical populations
| align = none
| cols = 2
| percentages = pagr
 |title=Population of Bordeaux (commune)<br /><small>(incl. Caudéran annexed in 1965)</small>
| source = EHESS<ref name="ehess">{{Cassini-Ehess|4923|Bordeaux}}</ref> and INSEE<ref name="population" />
| graph-pos = bottom
|1793 |107198
|1800 |93570
|1806 |94214
|1821 |91161
|1831 |101965
|1836.29 |101769
|1841.29 |108176
|1846.37 |129217
|1851.37 |135308
|1856.13 |154394
|1861.2 |168422
|1866.2 |198112
|1872.2 |199174
|1876.71 |220446
|1881.87 |227736
|1886.410959 |248545
|1891.278452 |261085
|1896.241096 |267369
|1901.227397 |268186
|1906.172603 |264835
|1911.180822 |275468
|1921.180822 |283394
|1926.180822 |273840
|1931.180822 |283374
|1936.180822 |281338
|1946.180822 |279128
|1954.356164 |284494
|1962.180822 |278403
|1968.180822 |266662
|1975.139726 |223131
|1982.180822 |208159
|1990.180822 |210336
|1999.180822 |215363
|2009 |236725
|2014 |246586
|2020 |259809
}}