What are the 10 French cities ranked by walk to work?

In order: Cestas, Couzeix, Ducos, Mios, Fuveau, Ambarès-et-Lagrave, Le Taillan-Médoc, Wittelsheim, Treillières and Les Pennes-Mirabeau.

What is the top 5 of French cities ranked by walk to work?

Cestas (0.8 %), Couzeix (0.8 %), Ducos (1.0 %), Mios (1.0 %) and Fuveau (1.1 %).

Which city is 2nd in the ranking of French cities ranked by walk to work?

Couzeix, at 0.8 %, just behind Cestas (0.8 %).

Is Cestas really the French city ranked last on walk to work?

Yes, at 0.8 %, ahead of Couzeix (0.8 %) and Ducos (1.0 %).

In which département is Cestas?

Cestas is in département 33, in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region.

How many French cities does this ranking compare?

1,038, with the top 50 listed in full in the table below.

What are the French cities ranked by walk to work in 2026?

This ranking uses the most recent official figures published as of 2026: Cestas leads with 0.8 %.

Is there a complete ranking of French cities ranked by walk to work?

Yes, the table below: the top 50 of 1,038, each with its département and its region, and the exact method and scope stated underneath it.

In order: Cestas (0.8 %), Couzeix (0.8 %), Ducos (1.0 %), Mios (1.0 %), Fuveau (1.1 %), Ambarès-et-Lagrave (1.2 %), Le Taillan-Médoc (1.2 %), Wittelsheim (1.2 %), Treillières (1.2 %), Les Pennes-Mirabeau (1.4 %).

Where does this figure come from?

Straight from INSEE, recensement de la population, 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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Cestas comes last on walk to work, with 0.8 %, ahead of Couzeix (0.8 %) and Ducos (1.0 %).

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Walk to work, 988 cities shown. The coloured surface is a local average over 34,758 communes, 98.7% 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: INSEE, recensement de la population · 2022.

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Top 50 of 1,038 cities
Rank	City	Walk to work %	Population	Region
1	33 Cestas	0.8	16,666	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
2	87 Couzeix	0.8	10,195	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
3	972 Ducos	1.0	18,105	Martinique
4	33 Mios	1.0	12,043	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
5	13 Fuveau	1.1	10,337	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
6	33 Ambarès-et-Lagrave	1.2	17,644	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
7	33 Le Taillan-Médoc	1.2	11,073	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
8	68 Wittelsheim	1.2	10,645	Grand Est
9	44 Treillières	1.2	10,600	Pays de la Loire
10	13 Les Pennes-Mirabeau	1.4	22,537	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
11	49 Loire-Authion	1.4	16,765	Pays de la Loire
12	31 Fonsorbes	1.4	12,954	Occitanie
13	13 Septèmes-les-Vallons	1.5	11,995	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
14	87 Panazol	1.5	11,342	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
15	44 La Chapelle-sur-Erdre	1.6	20,690	Pays de la Loire
16	13 Bouc-Bel-Air	1.6	15,381	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
17	13 Cabriès	1.6	10,240	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
18	45 Ingré	1.6	10,062	Centre-Val de Loire
19	33 Saint-Loubès	1.6	10,027	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
20	33 Saint-Médard-en-Jalles	1.7	32,910	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
21	971 Le Gosier	1.7	27,757	Guadeloupe
22	33 Gujan-Mestras	1.7	22,153	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
23	06 Mougins	1.7	19,782	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
24	64 Urrugne	1.7	10,661	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
25	85 Aizenay	1.7	10,365	Pays de la Loire
26	33 Villenave-d'Ornon	1.8	42,545	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
27	33 Eysines	1.8	24,825	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
28	44 Couëron	1.8	24,103	Pays de la Loire
29	49 Orée d'Anjou	1.8	17,162	Pays de la Loire
30	64 Lons	1.8	13,606	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
31	84 Vedène	1.8	11,974	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
32	22 Ploufragan	1.8	11,507	Bretagne
33	33 Léognan	1.8	10,670	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
34	13 Gignac-la-Nerthe	1.8	10,343	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
35	74 Fillière	1.8	10,075	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
36	44 Sainte-Luce-sur-Loire	1.9	16,400	Pays de la Loire
37	67 Ostwald	1.9	13,946	Grand Est
38	2B Borgo	1.9	10,311	Corse
39	31 Tournefeuille	2.0	30,168	Occitanie
40	31 Plaisance-du-Touch	2.0	21,079	Occitanie
41	44 Carquefou	2.0	20,921	Pays de la Loire
42	44 Bouguenais	2.0	20,530	Pays de la Loire
43	972 Saint-Joseph (972)	2.0	16,258	Martinique
44	68 Kingersheim	2.0	13,354	Grand Est
45	972 Rivière-Pilote	2.0	11,604	Martinique
46	973 Remire-Montjoly	2.1	27,723	Guyane
47	44 Vertou	2.1	26,227	Pays de la Loire
48	13 Allauch	2.1	21,443	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
49	78 Andrésy	2.1	13,834	Île-de-France
50	56 Guidel	2.1	12,338	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. This particular ranking is a rate per inhabitant, so it covers towns of 10,000 people or more only: in a village of a hundred, three licence holders would read as thirty per thousand and outrank a town with a professional club, so no rate is published below that size rather than a meaningless one.

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 walk to work?: In order: Cestas, Couzeix, Ducos, Mios, Fuveau, Ambarès-et-Lagrave, Le Taillan-Médoc, Wittelsheim, Treillières and Les Pennes-Mirabeau.
What is the top 5 of French cities ranked by walk to work?: Cestas (0.8 %), Couzeix (0.8 %), Ducos (1.0 %), Mios (1.0 %) and Fuveau (1.1 %).
Which city is 2nd in the ranking of French cities ranked by walk to work?: Couzeix, at 0.8 %, just behind Cestas (0.8 %).
Is Cestas really the French city ranked last on walk to work?: Yes, at 0.8 %, ahead of Couzeix (0.8 %) and Ducos (1.0 %).
In which département is Cestas?: Cestas is in département 33, in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region.
Which city is 10th in the ranking of French cities ranked by walk to work?: Les Pennes-Mirabeau, at 1.4 %.
How many French cities does this ranking compare?: 1,038, with the top 50 listed in full in the table below.
What are the French cities ranked by walk to work in 2026?: This ranking uses the most recent official figures published as of 2026: Cestas leads with 0.8 %.
Is there a complete ranking of French cities ranked by walk to work?: Yes, the table below: the top 50 of 1,038, each with its département and its region, and the exact method and scope stated underneath it.
What are the top 10?: In order: Cestas (0.8 %), Couzeix (0.8 %), Ducos (1.0 %), Mios (1.0 %), Fuveau (1.1 %), Ambarès-et-Lagrave (1.2 %), Le Taillan-Médoc (1.2 %), Wittelsheim (1.2 %), Treillières (1.2 %), Les Pennes-Mirabeau (1.4 %).
Where does this figure come from?: Straight from INSEE, recensement de la population, 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 1,038 cities in the dataset, each with its département, its region and the figure it is ranked on (walk to work), 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 rainiest cities in France and The driest cities in France, 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.