What are the 10 French cities ranked by hunters?

In order: Mende, Saint-Chély-d'Apcher, Guéret, Châteauroux, Issoudun, Auch, Aurillac, Blois, Romorantin-Lanthenay and Vendôme.

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

Mende (71.8 / 1,000 inhab.), Saint-Chély-d'Apcher (71.8 / 1,000 inhab.), Guéret (55.9 / 1,000 inhab.), Châteauroux (50 / 1,000 inhab.) and Issoudun (50 / 1,000 inhab.).

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

Saint-Chély-d'Apcher, at 71.8 / 1,000 inhab., just behind Mende (71.8 / 1,000 inhab.).

Is Mende really the French city ranked first on hunters?

Yes, at 71.8 / 1,000 inhab., ahead of Saint-Chély-d'Apcher (71.8 / 1,000 inhab.) and Guéret (55.9 / 1,000 inhab.).

In which département is Mende?

Mende is in département 48, in the Occitanie region.

Which city is 10th in the ranking of French cities ranked by hunters?

Vendôme, at 45.5 / 1,000 inhab.

How many French cities does this ranking compare?

866, with the top 50 listed in full in the table below.

What are the French cities ranked by hunters in 2026?

This ranking uses the most recent official figures published as of 2026: Mende leads with 71.8 / 1,000 inhab.

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

Yes, the table below: the top 50 of 866, each with its département and its region, and the exact method and scope stated underneath it.

In order: Mende (71.8 / 1,000 inhab.), Saint-Chély-d'Apcher (71.8 / 1,000 inhab.), Guéret (55.9 / 1,000 inhab.), Châteauroux (50 / 1,000 inhab.), Issoudun (50 / 1,000 inhab.), Auch (47 / 1,000 inhab.), Aurillac (46.7 / 1,000 inhab.), Blois (45.5 / 1,000 inhab.), Romorantin-Lanthenay (45.5 / 1,000 inhab.), Vendôme (45.5 / 1,000 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 hunters 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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Mende leads on hunters, with 71.8 / 1,000 inhabitants, then Saint-Chély-d'Apcher (71.8 / 1,000 inhabitants) and Guéret (55.9 / 1,000 inhabitants).

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Hunters, 824 cities shown. The coloured surface is a local average over 34,079 communes, 82.4% 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. Hatched areas have no published value within 25 km: the source withholds one there rather than measuring a zero. 42 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: Cour des comptes, validations du permis de chasser.

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Top 50 of 866 cities
Rank	City	Hunters / 1,000 inhab.	Population	Region
1	48 Mende	71.8	12,464	Occitanie
2	48 Saint-Chély-d'Apcher	71.8	3,955	Occitanie
3	23 Guéret	55.9	12,955	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
4	36 Châteauroux	50	42,963	Centre-Val de Loire
5	36 Issoudun	50	11,159	Centre-Val de Loire
6	32 Auch	47	22,428	Occitanie
7	15 Aurillac	46.7	26,214	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
8	41 Blois	45.5	47,219	Centre-Val de Loire
9	41 Romorantin-Lanthenay	45.5	18,373	Centre-Val de Loire
10	41 Vendôme	45.5	15,758	Centre-Val de Loire
11	41 Chambord	45.5	102	Centre-Val de Loire
12	40 Mont-de-Marsan	42.7	31,592	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
13	40 Dax	42.7	22,109	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
14	40 Biscarrosse	42.7	15,836	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
15	40 Saint-Paul-lès-Dax	42.7	14,481	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
16	40 Tarnos	42.7	12,957	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
17	40 Saint-Pierre-du-Mont	42.7	10,092	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
18	40 Soorts-Hossegor	42.7	3,817	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
19	04 Manosque	42	22,718	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
20	04 Digne-les-Bains	42	17,979	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
21	04 Barcelonnette	42	2,518	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
22	46 Cahors	40.9	20,050	Occitanie
23	46 Rocamadour	40.9	597	Occitanie
24	24 Périgueux	40	29,055	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
25	24 Bergerac	40	27,110	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
26	24 Boulazac Isle Manoire	40	10,759	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
27	24 Sarlat-la-Canéda	40	8,763	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
28	24 Domme	40	906	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
29	2B Bastia	39.3	46,867	Corse
30	2B Borgo	39.3	10,311	Corse
31	2B Corte	39.3	7,819	Corse
32	2B Calvi	39.3	5,788	Corse
33	2B L'Île-Rousse	39.3	3,231	Corse
34	2A Ajaccio	39.2	76,320	Corse
35	2A Porto-Vecchio	39.2	11,198	Corse
36	2A Propriano	39.2	3,996	Corse
37	2A Bonifacio	39.2	3,344	Corse
38	52 Saint-Dizier	37.7	22,858	Grand Est
39	52 Chaumont	37.7	20,827	Grand Est
40	52 Colombey les Deux Églises	37.7	661	Grand Est
41	80 Amiens	37.1	136,449	Hauts-de-France
42	80 Abbeville	37.1	22,395	Hauts-de-France
43	80 Saint-Valery-sur-Somme	37.1	2,306	Hauts-de-France
44	61 Alençon	36.5	25,490	Normandie
45	61 Flers	36.5	14,432	Normandie
46	61 Argentan	36.5	13,527	Normandie
47	19 Brive-la-Gaillarde	36.4	47,095	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
48	12 Rodez	36.4	23,981	Occitanie
49	12 Millau	36.4	22,044	Occitanie
50	19 Tulle	36.4	13,401	Nouvelle-Aquitaine

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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.

11 questions about this ranking

What are the 10 French cities ranked by hunters?: In order: Mende, Saint-Chély-d'Apcher, Guéret, Châteauroux, Issoudun, Auch, Aurillac, Blois, Romorantin-Lanthenay and Vendôme.
What is the top 5 of French cities ranked by hunters?: Mende (71.8 / 1,000 inhab.), Saint-Chély-d'Apcher (71.8 / 1,000 inhab.), Guéret (55.9 / 1,000 inhab.), Châteauroux (50 / 1,000 inhab.) and Issoudun (50 / 1,000 inhab.).
Which city is 2nd in the ranking of French cities ranked by hunters?: Saint-Chély-d'Apcher, at 71.8 / 1,000 inhab., just behind Mende (71.8 / 1,000 inhab.).
Is Mende really the French city ranked first on hunters?: Yes, at 71.8 / 1,000 inhab., ahead of Saint-Chély-d'Apcher (71.8 / 1,000 inhab.) and Guéret (55.9 / 1,000 inhab.).
In which département is Mende?: Mende is in département 48, in the Occitanie region.
Which city is 10th in the ranking of French cities ranked by hunters?: Vendôme, at 45.5 / 1,000 inhab.
How many French cities does this ranking compare?: 866, with the top 50 listed in full in the table below.
What are the French cities ranked by hunters in 2026?: This ranking uses the most recent official figures published as of 2026: Mende leads with 71.8 / 1,000 inhab.
Is there a complete ranking of French cities ranked by hunters?: Yes, the table below: the top 50 of 866, each with its département and its region, and the exact method and scope stated underneath it.
What are the top 10?: In order: Mende (71.8 / 1,000 inhab.), Saint-Chély-d'Apcher (71.8 / 1,000 inhab.), Guéret (55.9 / 1,000 inhab.), Châteauroux (50 / 1,000 inhab.), Issoudun (50 / 1,000 inhab.), Auch (47 / 1,000 inhab.), Aurillac (46.7 / 1,000 inhab.), Blois (45.5 / 1,000 inhab.), Romorantin-Lanthenay (45.5 / 1,000 inhab.), Vendôme (45.5 / 1,000 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 hunters 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 866 cities in the dataset, each with its département, its region and the figure it is ranked on (hunters), 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 hunters and The French cities with the most cows per inhabitant, 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.