What are the 10 French cities ranked by cattle?

In order: Aurillac, Guéret, Mende, Saint-Chély-d'Apcher, Laval, Château-Gontier-sur-Mayenne, Mayenne, Rodez, Millau and Onet-le-Château.

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

Aurillac (1.47 cattle/inhab.), Guéret (1.41 cattle/inhab.), Mende (0.85 cattle/inhab.), Saint-Chély-d'Apcher (0.85 cattle/inhab.) and Laval (0.68 cattle/inhab.).

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

Guéret, at 1.41 cattle/inhab., just behind Aurillac (1.47 cattle/inhab.).

Is Aurillac really the French city ranked first on cattle?

Yes, at 1.47 cattle/inhab., ahead of Guéret (1.41 cattle/inhab.) and Mende (0.85 cattle/inhab.).

In which département is Aurillac?

Aurillac is in département 15, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region.

What is the difference between Aurillac and Guéret?

Aurillac is at 1.47 cattle/inhab., Guéret at 1.41 cattle/inhab. 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 cattle?

Onet-le-Château, at 0.67 cattle/inhab.

How many French cities does this ranking compare?

1,111, with the top 50 listed in full in the table below.

What are the French cities ranked by cattle in 2026?

This ranking uses the most recent official figures published as of 2026: Aurillac leads with 1.47 cattle/inhab.

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

Yes, the table below: the top 50 of 1,111, each with its département and its region, and the exact method and scope stated underneath it.

In order: Aurillac (1.47 cattle/inhab.), Guéret (1.41 cattle/inhab.), Mende (0.85 cattle/inhab.), Saint-Chély-d'Apcher (0.85 cattle/inhab.), Laval (0.68 cattle/inhab.), Château-Gontier-sur-Mayenne (0.68 cattle/inhab.), Mayenne (0.68 cattle/inhab.), Rodez (0.67 cattle/inhab.), Millau (0.67 cattle/inhab.), Onet-le-Château (0.67 cattle/inhab.).

Is this figure really about the city?

No: it is measured for the whole département, and every commune of that département carries the same figure. It is ranked this way because cattle is not published commune by commune, and a per-commune count would be almost entirely zeros. Read each row as "this town's département", not "this town".

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The French cities with the most cows per inhabitant

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Aurillac leads on cattle, with 1.47 cattle/inhabitants, then Guéret (1.41 cattle/inhabitants) and Mende (0.85 cattle/inhabitants).

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Cattle, 1051 cities shown. The coloured surface is a local average over 34,874 communes, 96.1% 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. 60 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: Agreste, statistique agricole annuelle.

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Top 50 of 1,111 cities
Rank	City	Cattle /inhab.	Population	Region
1	15 Aurillac	1.47	26,214	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
2	23 Guéret	1.41	12,955	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
3	48 Mende	0.85	12,464	Occitanie
4	48 Saint-Chély-d'Apcher	0.85	3,955	Occitanie
5	53 Laval	0.68	49,400	Pays de la Loire
6	53 Château-Gontier-sur-Mayenne	0.68	16,584	Pays de la Loire
7	53 Mayenne	0.68	12,883	Pays de la Loire
8	12 Rodez	0.67	23,981	Occitanie
9	12 Millau	0.67	22,044	Occitanie
10	12 Onet-le-Château	0.67	12,080	Occitanie
11	12 Villefranche-de-Rouergue	0.67	11,271	Occitanie
12	12 Najac	0.67	771	Occitanie
13	58 Nevers	0.63	33,085	Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
14	50 Cherbourg-en-Cotentin	0.56	78,258	Normandie
15	03 Montluçon	0.56	33,147	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
16	03 Vichy	0.56	25,115	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
17	50 Saint-Lô	0.56	19,471	Normandie
18	03 Moulins	0.56	19,206	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
19	03 Cusset	0.56	13,316	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
20	03 Yzeure	0.56	12,897	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
21	50 Granville	0.56	12,510	Normandie
22	50 La Hague	0.56	11,484	Normandie
23	50 Carentan-les-Marais	0.56	10,218	Normandie
24	50 Avranches	0.56	10,143	Normandie
25	50 Le Mont-Saint-Michel	0.56	23	Normandie
26	61 Alençon	0.56	25,490	Normandie
27	61 Flers	0.56	14,432	Normandie
28	61 Argentan	0.56	13,527	Normandie
29	19 Brive-la-Gaillarde	0.48	47,095	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
30	19 Tulle	0.48	13,401	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
31	43 Le Puy-en-Velay	0.43	18,540	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
32	36 Châteauroux	0.40	42,963	Centre-Val de Loire
33	36 Issoudun	0.40	11,159	Centre-Val de Loire
34	55 Verdun	0.40	16,890	Grand Est
35	55 Bar-le-Duc	0.40	14,607	Grand Est
36	52 Saint-Dizier	0.39	22,858	Grand Est
37	52 Chaumont	0.39	20,827	Grand Est
38	52 Colombey les Deux Églises	0.39	661	Grand Est
39	71 Chalon-sur-Saône	0.39	45,102	Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
40	71 Mâcon	0.39	35,177	Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
41	71 Le Creusot	0.39	20,509	Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
42	71 Montceau-les-Mines	0.39	17,064	Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
43	71 Autun	0.39	13,172	Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
44	71 Cluny	0.39	4,942	Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
45	87 Limoges	0.33	129,937	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
46	87 Saint-Junien	0.33	11,415	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
47	87 Panazol	0.33	11,342	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
48	87 Couzeix	0.33	10,195	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
49	87 Oradour-sur-Glane	0.33	2,550	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
50	22 Saint-Brieuc	0.32	44,364	Bretagne

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Scope, method and sources

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 cattle?: In order: Aurillac, Guéret, Mende, Saint-Chély-d'Apcher, Laval, Château-Gontier-sur-Mayenne, Mayenne, Rodez, Millau and Onet-le-Château.
What is the top 5 of French cities ranked by cattle?: Aurillac (1.47 cattle/inhab.), Guéret (1.41 cattle/inhab.), Mende (0.85 cattle/inhab.), Saint-Chély-d'Apcher (0.85 cattle/inhab.) and Laval (0.68 cattle/inhab.).
Which city is 2nd in the ranking of French cities ranked by cattle?: Guéret, at 1.41 cattle/inhab., just behind Aurillac (1.47 cattle/inhab.).
Is Aurillac really the French city ranked first on cattle?: Yes, at 1.47 cattle/inhab., ahead of Guéret (1.41 cattle/inhab.) and Mende (0.85 cattle/inhab.).
In which département is Aurillac?: Aurillac is in département 15, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region.
What is the difference between Aurillac and Guéret?: Aurillac is at 1.47 cattle/inhab., Guéret at 1.41 cattle/inhab. 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 cattle?: Onet-le-Château, at 0.67 cattle/inhab.
How many French cities does this ranking compare?: 1,111, with the top 50 listed in full in the table below.
What are the French cities ranked by cattle in 2026?: This ranking uses the most recent official figures published as of 2026: Aurillac leads with 1.47 cattle/inhab.
Is there a complete ranking of French cities ranked by cattle?: Yes, the table below: the top 50 of 1,111, each with its département and its region, and the exact method and scope stated underneath it.
What are the top 10?: In order: Aurillac (1.47 cattle/inhab.), Guéret (1.41 cattle/inhab.), Mende (0.85 cattle/inhab.), Saint-Chély-d'Apcher (0.85 cattle/inhab.), Laval (0.68 cattle/inhab.), Château-Gontier-sur-Mayenne (0.68 cattle/inhab.), Mayenne (0.68 cattle/inhab.), Rodez (0.67 cattle/inhab.), Millau (0.67 cattle/inhab.), Onet-le-Château (0.67 cattle/inhab.).
Is this figure really about the city?: No: it is measured for the whole département, and every commune of that département carries the same figure. It is ranked this way because cattle is not published commune by commune, and a per-commune count would be almost entirely zeros. Read each row as "this town's département", not "this town".

The table below ranks the top 50 of the 1,111 cities in the dataset, each with its département, its region and the figure it is ranked on (cattle), 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 fewest cows per inhabitant and The French cities with the most pupils in private schools (by département), 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.