What are the 10 French cities ranked by rent?

In order: Vézelay, Domrémy-la-Pucelle, Colombey les Deux Églises, Rocamadour, Najac, Domme, Issoudun, Sedan, Romilly-sur-Seine and Bar-le-Duc.

What is the top 5 of French cities ranked by rent?

Vézelay (7.4 €/m²), Domrémy-la-Pucelle (7.8 €/m²), Colombey les Deux Églises (7.9 €/m²), Rocamadour (8.1 €/m²) and Najac (8.6 €/m²).

Which city is 2nd in the ranking of French cities ranked by rent?

Domrémy-la-Pucelle, at 7.8 €/m², just behind Vézelay (7.4 €/m²).

In which département is Vézelay?

Vézelay is in département 89, in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region.

What is the difference between Vézelay and Domrémy-la-Pucelle?

Vézelay is at 7.4 €/m², Domrémy-la-Pucelle at 7.8 €/m². The table gives the same figure for all 50 places, so any two of them can be compared the same way.

How many French cities does this ranking compare?

1,102, with the top 50 listed in full in the table below.

What are the French cities ranked by rent in 2026?

This ranking uses the most recent official figures published as of 2026: Vézelay leads with 7.4 €/m².

Is there a complete ranking of French cities ranked by rent?

Yes, the table below: the top 50 of 1,102, each with its département and its region, and the exact method and scope stated underneath it.

In order: Vézelay (7.4 €/m²), Domrémy-la-Pucelle (7.8 €/m²), Colombey les Deux Églises (7.9 €/m²), Rocamadour (8.1 €/m²), Najac (8.6 €/m²), Domme (8.6 €/m²), Issoudun (8.7 €/m²), Sedan (8.8 €/m²), Romilly-sur-Seine (8.8 €/m²), Bar-le-Duc (8.8 €/m²).

Where does this figure come from?

Straight from DHUP-ANIL, carte des loyers, joined to each commune by its INSEE code and never retyped by hand. A commune the source does not cover is left out of the table rather than shown as a zero: an absence and a measured zero are different facts, and only one of them is safe to rank.

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Among towns of more than 10,000 people, the first in this ranking is Issoudun, at 8.7 €/m² (no. 7 overall). Vézelay comes last on rent, with 7.4 €/m², ahead of Domrémy-la-Pucelle (7.8 €/m²) and Colombey les Deux Églises (7.9 €/m²).

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Rent, 1052 cities shown. The coloured surface is a local average over 34,858 communes, 98.8% of the country's population, weighted by the population of each one. Every commune with a published value counts, not only the towns in the table. 50 ranked overseas cities are not plotted: they fall outside this map's frame. Projection: longitude compressed by cos(46.3°N), so east-west and north-south distances stay comparable. Source: DHUP-ANIL, carte des loyers.

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Top 50 of 1,102 cities
Rank	City	Rent €/m²	Population	Region
1	89 Vézelay	7.4	476	Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
2	88 Domrémy-la-Pucelle	7.8	102	Grand Est
3	52 Colombey les Deux Églises	7.9	661	Grand Est
4	46 Rocamadour	8.1	597	Occitanie
5	12 Najac	8.6	771	Occitanie
6	24 Domme	8.6	906	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
7	36 Issoudun	8.7	11,159	Centre-Val de Loire
8	08 Sedan	8.8	16,667	Grand Est
9	10 Romilly-sur-Seine	8.8	14,959	Grand Est
10	55 Bar-le-Duc	8.8	14,607	Grand Est
11	61 Flers	8.8	14,432	Normandie
12	42 Le Chambon-Feugerolles	8.9	12,314	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
13	03 Montluçon	8.9	33,147	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
14	51 Vitry-le-François	9.0	10,996	Grand Est
15	63 Thiers	9.0	11,637	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
16	18 Vierzon	9.0	25,068	Centre-Val de Loire
17	50 Le Mont-Saint-Michel	9.0	23	Normandie
18	71 Le Creusot	9.1	20,509	Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
19	61 Argentan	9.1	13,527	Normandie
20	19 Tulle	9.1	13,401	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
21	79 Thouars	9.1	13,891	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
22	49 Doué-en-Anjou	9.1	11,029	Pays de la Loire
23	88 Saint-Dié-des-Vosges	9.1	19,251	Grand Est
24	87 Saint-Junien	9.1	11,415	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
25	71 Autun	9.2	13,172	Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
26	81 Mazamet	9.2	10,085	Occitanie
27	59 Fourmies	9.2	11,449	Hauts-de-France
28	07 Annonay	9.2	17,274	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
29	02 Tergnier	9.3	13,045	Hauts-de-France
30	43 Le Puy-en-Velay	9.3	18,540	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
31	11 Limoux	9.3	10,532	Occitanie
32	55 Verdun	9.3	16,890	Grand Est
33	89 Chablis	9.3	2,139	Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
34	52 Chaumont	9.4	20,827	Grand Est
35	42 Firminy	9.4	17,060	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
36	23 Guéret	9.4	12,955	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
37	57 Forbach	9.5	20,493	Grand Est
38	72 Sablé-sur-Sarthe	9.5	12,326	Pays de la Loire
39	81 Cordes-sur-Ciel	9.5	879	Occitanie
40	57 Freyming-Merlebach	9.5	13,266	Grand Est
41	15 Aurillac	9.5	26,214	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
42	42 Roanne	9.5	35,409	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
43	47 Villeneuve-sur-Lot	9.5	22,350	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
44	49 Chemillé-en-Anjou	9.6	21,999	Pays de la Loire
45	14 Vire Normandie	9.6	17,457	Normandie
46	12 Villefranche-de-Rouergue	9.6	11,271	Occitanie
47	49 Mauges-sur-Loire	9.6	18,695	Pays de la Loire
48	08 Charleville-Mézières	9.6	45,560	Grand Est
49	54 Lunéville	9.6	18,262	Grand Est
50	57 Creutzwald	9.6	12,254	Grand Est

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Scope: France, metropolitan and overseas, Corsica and the DROM included. This dataset holds every commune of 10,000 inhabitants or more, plus smaller communes famous enough to be household names, 1,131 in all. It is not the full list of 35,000 French communes, so a village can sit outside a ranking whose extreme it would otherwise hold.

Method and sources: populations are the INSEE legal populations, boundaries and coordinates come from the IGN commune registry, both served by geo.api.gouv.fr. Density is the population divided by the commune's area; distances are measured as the crow flies from the commune's centre. Data read on August 28, 2026.

12 questions about this ranking

What are the 10 French cities ranked by rent?: In order: Vézelay, Domrémy-la-Pucelle, Colombey les Deux Églises, Rocamadour, Najac, Domme, Issoudun, Sedan, Romilly-sur-Seine and Bar-le-Duc.
What is the top 5 of French cities ranked by rent?: Vézelay (7.4 €/m²), Domrémy-la-Pucelle (7.8 €/m²), Colombey les Deux Églises (7.9 €/m²), Rocamadour (8.1 €/m²) and Najac (8.6 €/m²).
Which city is 2nd in the ranking of French cities ranked by rent?: Domrémy-la-Pucelle, at 7.8 €/m², just behind Vézelay (7.4 €/m²).
Is Vézelay really the French city ranked last on rent?: Yes, at 7.4 €/m², ahead of Domrémy-la-Pucelle (7.8 €/m²) and Colombey les Deux Églises (7.9 €/m²).
In which département is Vézelay?: Vézelay is in département 89, in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region.
What is the difference between Vézelay and Domrémy-la-Pucelle?: Vézelay is at 7.4 €/m², Domrémy-la-Pucelle at 7.8 €/m². The table gives the same figure for all 50 places, so any two of them can be compared the same way.
Which city is 10th in the ranking of French cities ranked by rent?: Bar-le-Duc, at 8.8 €/m².
How many French cities does this ranking compare?: 1,102, with the top 50 listed in full in the table below.
What are the French cities ranked by rent in 2026?: This ranking uses the most recent official figures published as of 2026: Vézelay leads with 7.4 €/m².
Is there a complete ranking of French cities ranked by rent?: Yes, the table below: the top 50 of 1,102, each with its département and its region, and the exact method and scope stated underneath it.
What are the top 10?: In order: Vézelay (7.4 €/m²), Domrémy-la-Pucelle (7.8 €/m²), Colombey les Deux Églises (7.9 €/m²), Rocamadour (8.1 €/m²), Najac (8.6 €/m²), Domme (8.6 €/m²), Issoudun (8.7 €/m²), Sedan (8.8 €/m²), Romilly-sur-Seine (8.8 €/m²), Bar-le-Duc (8.8 €/m²).
Where does this figure come from?: Straight from DHUP-ANIL, carte des loyers, joined to each commune by its INSEE code and never retyped by hand. A commune the source does not cover is left out of the table rather than shown as a zero: an absence and a measured zero are different facts, and only one of them is safe to rank.

The table below ranks the top 50 of the 1,102 cities in the dataset, each with its département, its region and the figure it is ranked on (rent), so you can see not just the order but how far apart the places are. The numbers are official public data: INSEE legal populations and the IGN commune registry, with the exact method and the exact scope stated under the table rather than left to be guessed at.

The same data answers neighbouring questions too: see The French cities with the busiest train stations and The French cities with the quietest train stations, or all rankings for the full list. All of it comes from Le Bon Rang, a free daily game that gives you five French cities and one of these statistics and asks you for the order.