The invention relates to a vehicle door handle assembly with a sensor device for detecting an actuation. A handle of the vehicle door handle assembly has a section which can be gripped from behind, and the handle has an outer wall that delimits an interior in which an electronic sensor device is arranged and fixed. The handle section which can be gripped from behind is formed with a reduced outer wall thickness in an actuation region and has a deformability which is increased with respect to the remaining sections of the handle at said region. The outer wall thickness is reduced solely on the outer wall face oriented towards the interior. The handle outer wall inner face oriented towards the interior is coated with a metal layer at least in the actuation region. The electronic sensor device comprises at least one inductive distance sensor which lies opposite the metal layer in the interior of the handle such that the inductive distance sensor detects a deformation of the opposing outer wall with the metal layer lying thereon.