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

In order: Grenoble, Schiltigheim, Strasbourg, Bordeaux, La Rochelle, Talence, Bischheim, Rennes, Seyssinet-Pariset and Rezé.

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

Grenoble (22.7 %), Schiltigheim (21.1 %), Strasbourg (20.6 %), Bordeaux (19.0 %) and La Rochelle (17.7 %).

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

Schiltigheim, at 21.1 %, just behind Grenoble (22.7 %).

Is Grenoble really the French city ranked first on cycle to work?

Yes, at 22.7 %, ahead of Schiltigheim (21.1 %) and Strasbourg (20.6 %).

In which département is Grenoble?

Grenoble is in département 38, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region.

What is the difference between Grenoble and Schiltigheim?

Grenoble is at 22.7 %, Schiltigheim at 21.1 %. 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?

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

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

This ranking uses the most recent official figures published as of 2026: Grenoble leads with 22.7 %.

Is there a complete ranking of French cities ranked by cycle 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: Grenoble (22.7 %), Schiltigheim (21.1 %), Strasbourg (20.6 %), Bordeaux (19.0 %), La Rochelle (17.7 %), Talence (15.1 %), Bischheim (14.9 %), Rennes (14.8 %), Seyssinet-Pariset (14.8 %), Rezé (14.3 %).

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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Grenoble leads on cycle to work, with 22.7 %, then Schiltigheim (21.1 %) and Strasbourg (20.6 %).

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Cycle 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	Cycle to work %	Population	Region
1	38 Grenoble	22.7	156,140	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
2	67 Schiltigheim	21.1	34,708	Grand Est
3	67 Strasbourg	20.6	293,771	Grand Est
4	33 Bordeaux	19.0	267,991	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
5	17 La Rochelle	17.7	79,851	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
6	33 Talence	15.1	46,338	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
7	67 Bischheim	14.9	18,558	Grand Est
8	35 Rennes	14.8	230,890	Bretagne
9	38 Seyssinet-Pariset	14.8	11,739	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
10	44 Rezé	14.3	43,556	Pays de la Loire
11	33 Le Bouscat	14.2	25,081	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
12	44 Nantes	14.1	327,734	Pays de la Loire
13	33 Bègles	13.9	31,831	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
14	38 Fontaine	13.7	22,020	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
15	38 Meylan	13.7	18,770	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
16	38 Saint-Égrève	13.3	17,986	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
17	38 Saint-Martin-d'Hères	13.2	37,695	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
18	69 Lyon	12.8	519,127	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
19	34 Montpellier	12.5	310,240	Occitanie
20	92 Malakoff	12.2	30,557	Île-de-France
21	31 Toulouse	12.1	514,819	Occitanie
22	44 Saint-Sébastien-sur-Loire	12.0	28,596	Pays de la Loire
23	59 Lambersart	11.9	27,090	Hauts-de-France
24	67 Ostwald	11.6	13,946	Grand Est
25	49 Angers	11.4	159,022	Pays de la Loire
26	37 La Riche	11.4	10,487	Centre-Val de Loire
27	01 Ferney-Voltaire	11.3	12,094	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
28	93 Pantin	11.2	61,929	Île-de-France
29	35 Cesson-Sévigné	11.2	18,761	Bretagne
30	93 Le Pré-Saint-Gervais	11.2	16,993	Île-de-France
31	67 Illkirch-Graffenstaden	11.1	27,872	Grand Est
32	69 Villeurbanne	11.0	163,684	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
33	35 Saint-Jacques-de-la-Lande	10.9	13,800	Bretagne
34	74 Gaillard	10.9	11,423	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
35	59 La Madeleine	10.7	21,790	Hauts-de-France
36	67 Lingolsheim	10.6	20,826	Grand Est
37	37 Saint-Pierre-des-Corps	10.5	15,898	Centre-Val de Loire
38	73 Chambéry	10.3	59,964	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
39	34 Castelnau-le-Lez	10.3	26,058	Occitanie
40	68 Colmar	10.2	66,970	Grand Est
41	31 Ramonville-Saint-Agne	10.2	15,158	Occitanie
42	75 Paris	10.1	2,103,778	Île-de-France
43	973 Kourou	9.8	24,824	Guyane
44	33 Floirac	9.8	18,300	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
45	37 Tours	9.7	139,259	Centre-Val de Loire
46	92 Vanves	9.7	28,622	Île-de-France
47	67 Hœnheim	9.7	11,742	Grand Est
48	74 Annecy	9.6	132,117	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
49	93 Saint-Ouen-sur-Seine	9.5	53,615	Île-de-France
50	07 Tournon-sur-Rhône	9.5	11,279	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

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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.

12 questions about this ranking

What are the 10 French cities ranked by cycle to work?: In order: Grenoble, Schiltigheim, Strasbourg, Bordeaux, La Rochelle, Talence, Bischheim, Rennes, Seyssinet-Pariset and Rezé.
What is the top 5 of French cities ranked by cycle to work?: Grenoble (22.7 %), Schiltigheim (21.1 %), Strasbourg (20.6 %), Bordeaux (19.0 %) and La Rochelle (17.7 %).
Which city is 2nd in the ranking of French cities ranked by cycle to work?: Schiltigheim, at 21.1 %, just behind Grenoble (22.7 %).
Is Grenoble really the French city ranked first on cycle to work?: Yes, at 22.7 %, ahead of Schiltigheim (21.1 %) and Strasbourg (20.6 %).
In which département is Grenoble?: Grenoble is in département 38, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region.
What is the difference between Grenoble and Schiltigheim?: Grenoble is at 22.7 %, Schiltigheim at 21.1 %. 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 cycle to work?: Rezé, at 14.3 %.
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 cycle to work in 2026?: This ranking uses the most recent official figures published as of 2026: Grenoble leads with 22.7 %.
Is there a complete ranking of French cities ranked by cycle 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: Grenoble (22.7 %), Schiltigheim (21.1 %), Strasbourg (20.6 %), Bordeaux (19.0 %), La Rochelle (17.7 %), Talence (15.1 %), Bischheim (14.9 %), Rennes (14.8 %), Seyssinet-Pariset (14.8 %), Rezé (14.3 %).
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 (cycle 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 French cities where fewest people cycle to work and The French cities where most people walk to work, 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.