title: Communauté d'agglomération Cœur d'Essonne
text: # Communauté d'agglomération Cœur d'Essonne
  
  Communauté d'agglomération Cœur d'Essonne (also: Cœur d'Essonne Agglomération) is an agglomeration community, an intercommunal structure, centred on the city of Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois, a southern suburb of Paris. It is located in the Essonne department, in the Île-de-France region, northern France. It was created in January 2016. Its area is 132.7 $km^2.$ Its population was 201,873 in 2018.
  
  ## Composition
  
  The communauté d'agglomération consists of the following 21 communes:
  
  * Arpajon
  * Avrainville
  * Brétigny-sur-Orge
  * Breuillet
  * Bruyères-le-Châtel
  * Cheptainville
  * Égly
  * Fleury-Mérogis
  * Guibeville
  * Leuville-sur-Orge
  * Longpont-sur-Orge
  * Marolles-en-Hurepoix
  * Morsang-sur-Orge
  * La Norville
  * Ollainville
  * Le Plessis-Pâté
  * Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois
  * Saint-Germain-lès-Arpajon
  * Saint-Michel-sur-Orge
  * Villemoisson-sur-Orge
  * Villiers-sur-Orge
  