This statistic shows the ten largest cities in France as of 2022. In 2022, around 2.11 million people lived in Paris, making it the largest city in France.

This statistic shows the variation of property prices in the ten largest cities in France between 2016 and 2019. In May 2019, real estate prices had increased by one percent in the city of Nantes and by 1.3 percent in Lyon.

Population in the largest city (% of urban population) in France was reported at 20.06 % in 2024, according to the World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially recognized sources. France - Population in the largest city - actual values, historical data, forecasts and projections were sourced from the World Bank on July of 2025.

Paris was in 2021 the most populated city in France with over ************inhabitants. Marseille was the second most important city in terms of inhabitants, and Lyon, the third. With ******* inhabitants, Lille was the tenth most populated city in France.

Population in largest city in France was reported at 11276701 in 2024, according to the World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially recognized sources. France - Population in largest city - actual values, historical data, forecasts and projections were sourced from the World Bank on July of 2025.

France FR: Population in Largest City: as % of Urban Population data was reported at 20.512 % in 2017. This records an increase from the previous number of 20.490 % for 2016. France FR: Population in Largest City: as % of Urban Population data is updated yearly, averaging 21.394 % from Dec 1960 (Median) to 2017, with 58 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 25.582 % in 1960 and a record low of 20.472 % in 2014. France FR: Population in Largest City: as % of Urban Population data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s France – Table FR.World Bank: Population and Urbanization Statistics. Population in largest city is the percentage of a country's urban population living in that country's largest metropolitan area.; ; United Nations, World Urbanization Prospects.; Weighted Average;

As of mid-2023, Paris recorded a public electric vehicle charging infrastructure index score of ** percent, indicative of how high the city's ratio of public chargers per 1,000 inhabitants was. The capital was the only French city to record an index score above ** percent. Strasbourg, which was second in the ranking, had a score of ** percent.

France FR: Population in Largest City data was reported at 10,844,847.000 Person in 2017. This records an increase from the previous number of 10,789,031.000 Person for 2016. France FR: Population in Largest City data is updated yearly, averaging 9,226,364.500 Person from Dec 1960 (Median) to 2017, with 58 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 10,844,847.000 Person in 2017 and a record low of 7,410,735.000 Person in 1960. France FR: Population in Largest City data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s France – Table FR.World Bank: Population and Urbanization Statistics. Population in largest city is the urban population living in the country's largest metropolitan area.; ; United Nations, World Urbanization Prospects.; ;

In 2024 life expectancy in France is a question of region, department and city

In France, life expectancy at birth is 85.3 years for women and 79.4 years for men. This means that on average, a French woman born in 2024 will live to the age of 85.3 years, and a man to the age of 79.4.

However, life expectancy varies considerably depending on the region, department and city where you live.

In region

Life expectancy is highest in Île-de-France, with 86.6 years for women and 81.9 years for men. Then come Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur (86.5 years for women, 81.7 years for men), Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (86.4 years for women, 81.5 years for men) and Brittany (86.2 years for women, 81.3 years for men).

Conversely, life expectancy is lowest in Hauts-de-France, with 83.9 years for women and 78.9 years for men. Then come Normandy (84.1 years for women, 79.1 years for men), Centre-Val de Loire (84.2 years for women, 79.3 years for men) and Burgundy-Franche-Comté (84.3 years for women, 79.4 years for men).

Department

At the departmental level, the departments where we live the longest are Hauts-de-Seine (86.7 years for women, 81.9 years for men), Yvelines (86.4 years for women, 81.6 years for men), Val-de-Marne (86.3 years for women, 81.3 years for men), Paris (86.2 years for women, 81.1 years for men) and Haute-Garonne (86.2 years for women, 81.1 years for men).

Conversely, the departments where we live the least long are Creuse (76.4 years for women, 72.3 years for men), Pas-de-Calais (76.6 years for women, 72.5 years for men), Aisne (76.7 years for women, 72.6 years for men) and Somme (76.8 years for women, 72.7 years for men).

In town

At the municipal level, the cities where we live the longest are Paris (86.2 years for women, 81.1 years for men), Neuilly-sur-Seine (86.1 years for women, 81.0 years for men), Boulogne-Billancourt (85.9 years for women, 80.8 years for men), Rueil-Malmaison (85.8 years for women, 80.7 years for men) and Issy-les-Moulineaux (85.7 years for women, 80.6 years for men).

Conversely, the cities with the least long lived are The Crown (75.4 years for women, 71.3 years for men), Saint-Quentin (75.5 years for women, 71.4 years for men), Maubeuge (75.6 years for women, 71.5 years for men) and Valenciennes (75.7 years for women, 71.6 years for men).

Factors that influence life expectancy

Many factors influence life expectancy, including:

• Standard of living
• Access to care
• The conditions

To view life expectancy for a specific region, department or city, please consult the following document:

Grenoble was the most bike-friendly big-sized city (between 100,000 and 200,000 inhabitatns) in France according to its residents. This city that lies at the foot of the French Alps was rated 4.12 out of 6 possible points. According to the organizers of the survey, the threshold for a positive response was set at 3.5 out of 6. Grenoble was, thus, the only city having 100,000 to 200,000 inhabitants that obtained a positive score. Angers came second among French big-sized cities, nevertheless, with a score just shy of 0.12 points of a positive score.

The purported spatial segregation of Muslim populations in Western Europe constitutes a longstanding policy and scholarly concern, yet little spatial data exists for purposes of empirical study. The MAPISLAM dataset is a research effort aimed at bridging this gap for the French empirical context. MAPISLAM is a spatial dataset built from publicly available, online repositories of addresses for places of interest destined to the Muslim communities of France’s major cities.

5G is finally arriving in France, with deployment in the country scheduled for November 18, 2020. 5G succeeds the previous generation of 4G, and will offer much higher speed than previously available, as well as very short latency times and an increased number of simultaneous connections possible per area covered. Marseille was the best-equipped French city with a total of ** 5G antennas, followed by Paris and Montpellier with ** and ** antennas, respectively.

Operators and territory coverage

As of November 2020, Orange had set up the highest number of 5G antennas under test in France. While almost the entirety of the French population was covered by mobile broadband (4G) by all four main operators, Orange was also at the top of the list in terms of territory coverage.

5G in the era of the smart city

The implementation of 5g on the French territory is one of the cornerstones of the development of the smart city and the digital transition it promotes. Indeed, open data was the most often carried out smart city project by French cities. Here again, Marseille stands out from other cities by being the most advanced French city in terms of smart city projects.

This statistic shows the gross rental profitability of the 30 largest cities in France in 2019. At that time, Boulogne-Billancourt and Bordeaux were the French cities where the gross rental profitability was the lowest. In contrast, Limoges and Le Mans were the French cities with the highest gross rental profitability.

Based on figures from the Ministry of the Interior, there were 27,131 municipal police officers in France in 2022. The French municipality with the highest number was Paris, France's capital city, followed by Marseille, located in the Bouches-du-Rhône department, and France's second-largest city, and by Nice. These cities are located in the two departments with the largest number of municipal police officers.

During the 2023/2024 academic year in France, the majority of students enrolled at university were following a degree course in Art and Humanities. There were more than ******* individuals studying areas as diverse as archaeology, philosophy, history, or literature. Who are the university students in France? During the academic year 2022/2023, there were almost 1.6 million university students registered in France. Alongside Art and Humanities, Science was also one of the most popular degree courses among university students in France. The country counted more than 620 universities in 2023, which welcome a majority of French students, even though the number of students coming from other countries has been increasing in recent years. In 2023/24, ** percent of foreign students in France were from Maghreb countries, which include French-speaking countries like Morocco or Algeria. The cost of being a university student France is known for being a country where annual tuition fees for third-level education are rather low compared to other countries like the United States or England. The annual tuition fee for domestic students in France amounts to *** US dollars, while it reaches more than ****** US dollars in England. However, these lower fees do not necessarily prevent students from financial difficulties. In 2019, nearly ** percent of French students stated having financial problems throughout the year, while renting a student studio in the biggest cities of France is becoming more and more expensive.

Bison Futé makes available in XML traffic data from 13 French cities: Bordeaux, Lyon, Marseille, Lille, Caen, Rennes, Nantes, Saint Étienne, Grenoble, Strasbourg, Clermont-Ferrand, Limoge, and Savoie.

Traffic data is updated every 6 minutes.

See also page http://www.bison-fute.equipement.gouv.fr/fr/article.php3?id_article=545

France is a transcontinental country spanning Western Europe and overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans. Including all of its territories, France has twelve time zones, the most of any country. Its metropolitan area extends from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean and from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea; overseas territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the North Atlantic, the French West Indies, and several islands in Oceania and the Indian Ocean. Its eighteen integral regions (five of which are overseas) span a combined area of 643,801 km2 (248,573 sq mi). France is a unitary semi-presidential republic with its capital in Paris, the country's largest city and main cultural and commercial centre; other major urban areas include Lyon, Marseille, Toulouse, Bordeaux, Lille and Nice.

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The catchment area of a city is a group of municipalities, of a single enclave and enclave, which defines the extent of the influence of a cluster of population and employment on the surrounding municipalities, this influence being measured by the intensity of commuting to work. Urban area zoning follows the zoning into urban areas in 2010. An area consists of a pole and a crown. — Poles are determined mainly on the basis of density and total population criteria, using a methodology consistent with that of the municipal density grid. A threshold of jobs is added in order to prevent essentially residential municipalities with few jobs from being considered poles. Within the pole, the most populous commune is called the center commune. If a pole sends at least 15 % of its assets to work in another pole of the same level, the two poles are associated and together form the heart of a catchment area. — Municipalities that send at least 15 % of their assets to work in the pole are the crown of the area. The definition of the largest catchment areas of cities is consistent with the definition of “cities” and “functional urban areas” used by Eurostat and the OECD to analyse the functioning of cities. Zoning into catchment areas thus facilitates international comparisons and makes it possible to visualise the influence in France of major foreign cities. For example, seven areas have a town located abroad (Bâle, Charleroi, Geneva, Lausanne, Luxembourg, Monaco and Saarbrücken). The areas are classified according to the total number of inhabitants of the area in 2017. The main thresholds selected are: Paris, 700,000 inhabitants, 200,000 inhabitants and 50,000 inhabitants. Areas whose pole is located abroad are classified in the category corresponding to their total population (French and foreign). Urban catchment areas, dated 2020, were constructed with reference to commuting known in the 2016 Census. Downloadable files provide the characteristics of the city’s catchment areas (size slice, number of municipalities) and the municipal composition of the city’s catchment areas.

PARES Dataset v2 PARES (PArish REcord Survey) contains 535 images of handwritten census tables for years ranging from around 1650 A.D. until 1850 A.D..They come from two French cities, Vic-sur-Seille (French department of Moselle) and Echevronne (French department of Côte d'Or). While they mention very ancient times, the documents are handwritten transcriptions of even older documents and are quite recent, copied from original documents during the 1950's and 1960's for demographic studies led by the INED in France (Institut National des études démographiques − National Institute for Demographic Studies). These copies were made by only a few different writers. The documents are damaged and exhibit different types of degradations. We identified seven different document categories we call C1 to C7. C1 and C3 are generally high-quality documents, without serious damage, consisting of about 90% of the dataset. Other categories include highly damaged documents or documents with specificities. A notable aspect of this dataset is that the records are written using only two different physical paper templates. Categories n°1, 2, 3, 6 and 7 have 25 recordings while the categories 4 and 5 are higher and can record up to 35 recordings. C4 and C5 are the larger templates and differ from the rest of the documents. We published a paper, Text Line Detection in Historical Index Tables: Evaluations on a New French PArish REcord Survey Dataset (PARES), in which we better describe the dataset and the tasks it's possible to run on it.

This data set is composed by 5 geojson files, that can be used to generate maps of mainland France :

motifs_all.geojson : pattern about transport extracted from contributions of the French Great National Debate (Grand Débat National). Original dataset : https://granddebat.fr/pages/donnees-ouvertes

bikeway_fr.geojson and railroad_fr.geojson : cycleways and railways of mainland France, from Open Street Map. Original dataset : https://download.geofabrik.de/europe/france.html

trainstations.geojson : train stations and halts of mainland France, from Open Street Map. Original dataset : https://download.geofabrik.de/europe/france.html

au2010_carto.geojson : categorized urban areas of mainland France. Original dataset : https://www.insee.fr/fr/information/2115011

communesimportantes.geojson : the main cities of mainland France

The data set is in French.

Ce jeu de données est composé de 5 fichiers geojson qui peuvent être utilisés pour générer des cartes en France métropolitaine :

motifs_all.geojson : motifs à propos du transport extraient des contributions en ligne au Grand Débat National. Jeu de données d'origine : https://granddebat.fr/pages/donnees-ouvertes

bikeway_fr.geojson and railroad_fr.geojson : pistes cyclables et voies ferrées en France métropolitaine, venant d'Open Street Map. Jeu de données d'origine : https://download.geofabrik.de/europe/france.html

trainstations.geojson : gares et petites gares en France métropolitaine, from Open Street Map. Original dataset : https://download.geofabrik.de/europe/france.html

au2010_carto.geojson : aires urbaines catégorisées en France métropolitaine, définies par l'INSEE. Jeu de données d'origine : https://www.insee.fr/fr/information/2115011

communesimportantes.geojson : principales villes de France métropolitaine