The arrondissement of Rouen was created in 1800.[4] At the January 2017 reorganisation of the arrondissements of Seine-Maritime, it received four communes from the arrondissement of Dieppe and seven communes from the arrondissement of Le Havre, and it lost four communes to the arrondissement of Dieppe.[5]
As a result of the reorganisation of the cantons of France which came into effect in 2015, the borders of the cantons are no longer related to the borders of the arrondissements. The cantons of the arrondissement of Rouen were, as of January 2015:[6]
