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Originally Posted by emathias
My guess is that there are a number of factors. First, the size of the average French car is quite small even compared to the size of the average car in Manhattan. Second, I wouldn't be surprised if Manhattan has more public housing that central Paris does - a huge portion of Paris public housing is in the suburbs. This is relevant because it *might* mean that there are relatively fewer low-income people in central Paris who would more naturally be transit-captive. Wealthy and/or high-income people strongly prefer to have a car just because they can. Lending credence to that idea is that the car ownership in the 7th Arr. is 3rd highest, and the 7th is the highest-income area, and the 16th Arr. has the most millionaires, an average income of still over double the average for Paris as a whole, and the highest car ownership rate.
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I would not be surprised to see that public housing have a higher car ownership rate than the average of Paris.
Modern public housing buildings are more likely to have parking space.
The 16th arrondissement has plenty of residential buildings with parking space. Most of its residential stock comes from the 20th century. In some way despite its density this arrondissement can be very suburban.
The 7th and 8th have a low population and a low density of population compared with the rest of the City of Paris. The few resident can easily park their car in streets deserted during the night or in the numerous underground car parks.
The arrondissement with the lowest medium income in Paris is the 19th arrondissement, yet it has a higher car ownership rate than the average.
It can be esplained by a "large" number of buildings with parking space as well for the 15th, 13th, 12th arrondissements.
The lowest car ownership rate are for the 2nd, 10th and 3rd arrondissements, very dense area with few parking space. Those arrondissements are popular among young urbanites (hipsters and etc).
The poor Seine Saint Denis departement has a higher car ownership rate than the wealthy 16th arrondissement.