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

In order: Beausoleil, Le Puy-en-Velay, Apatou, Lons-le-Saunier, Aurillac, Briançon, Vichy, Nancy, Moulins and Vesoul.

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

Beausoleil (31.2 %), Le Puy-en-Velay (25.5 %), Apatou (24.2 %), Lons-le-Saunier (24.1 %) and Aurillac (22.1 %).

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

Le Puy-en-Velay, at 25.5 %, just behind Beausoleil (31.2 %).

Is Beausoleil really the French city ranked first on walk to work?

Yes, at 31.2 %, ahead of Le Puy-en-Velay (25.5 %) and Apatou (24.2 %).

In which département is Beausoleil?

Beausoleil is in département 06, in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region.

What is the difference between Beausoleil and Le Puy-en-Velay?

Beausoleil is at 31.2 %, Le Puy-en-Velay at 25.5 %. 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 walk to work in 2026?

This ranking uses the most recent official figures published as of 2026: Beausoleil leads with 31.2 %.

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: Beausoleil (31.2 %), Le Puy-en-Velay (25.5 %), Apatou (24.2 %), Lons-le-Saunier (24.1 %), Aurillac (22.1 %), Briançon (22.1 %), Vichy (20.9 %), Nancy (20.8 %), Moulins (20.8 %), Vesoul (20.8 %).

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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Beausoleil leads on walk to work, with 31.2 %, then Le Puy-en-Velay (25.5 %) and Apatou (24.2 %).

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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	06 Beausoleil	31.2	11,936	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
2	43 Le Puy-en-Velay	25.5	18,540	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
3	973 Apatou	24.2	10,306	Guyane
4	39 Lons-le-Saunier	24.1	16,618	Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
5	15 Aurillac	22.1	26,214	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
6	05 Briançon	22.1	11,411	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
7	03 Vichy	20.9	25,115	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
8	54 Nancy	20.8	103,671	Grand Est
9	03 Moulins	20.8	19,206	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
10	70 Vesoul	20.8	15,078	Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
11	23 Guéret	20.4	12,955	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
12	46 Cahors	20.3	20,050	Occitanie
13	71 Autun	20.3	13,172	Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
14	24 Périgueux	20.2	29,055	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
15	12 Rodez	19.1	23,981	Occitanie
16	62 Boulogne-sur-Mer	18.6	40,539	Hauts-de-France
17	14 Bayeux	18.6	12,659	Normandie
18	14 Lisieux	17.8	19,645	Normandie
19	55 Bar-le-Duc	17.8	14,607	Grand Est
20	25 Pontarlier	17.5	18,067	Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
21	61 Argentan	17.2	13,527	Normandie
22	76 Rouen	17.1	117,662	Normandie
23	50 Avranches	17.1	10,143	Normandie
24	92 Levallois-Perret	17.0	68,092	Île-de-France
25	50 Granville	16.6	12,510	Normandie
26	27 Pont-Audemer	16.6	10,023	Normandie
27	63 Clermont-Ferrand	16.3	146,351	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
28	34 Sète	16.3	45,337	Occitanie
29	47 Agen	16.3	32,801	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
30	76 Dieppe	16.3	28,496	Normandie
31	61 Alençon	16.3	25,490	Normandie
32	69 Tarare	16.2	10,893	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
33	52 Chaumont	16.1	20,827	Grand Est
34	67 Saverne	16.1	11,460	Grand Est
35	51 Vitry-le-François	16.0	10,996	Grand Est
36	89 Sens	15.9	27,106	Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
37	51 Épernay	15.9	22,174	Grand Est
38	22 Dinan	15.9	14,764	Bretagne
39	77 Provins	15.9	11,632	Île-de-France
40	65 Lourdes	15.7	13,266	Occitanie
41	92 Puteaux	15.6	44,002	Île-de-France
42	05 Gap	15.6	41,293	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
43	08 Charleville-Mézières	15.5	45,560	Grand Est
44	48 Mende	15.3	12,464	Occitanie
45	62 Arras	15.2	42,875	Hauts-de-France
46	72 Sablé-sur-Sarthe	15.2	12,326	Pays de la Loire
47	71 Chalon-sur-Saône	15.1	45,102	Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
48	42 Roanne	15.1	35,409	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
49	76 Fécamp	15.1	17,313	Normandie
50	92 Courbevoie	15.0	82,902	Île-de-France

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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. 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 walk to work?: In order: Beausoleil, Le Puy-en-Velay, Apatou, Lons-le-Saunier, Aurillac, Briançon, Vichy, Nancy, Moulins and Vesoul.
What is the top 5 of French cities ranked by walk to work?: Beausoleil (31.2 %), Le Puy-en-Velay (25.5 %), Apatou (24.2 %), Lons-le-Saunier (24.1 %) and Aurillac (22.1 %).
Which city is 2nd in the ranking of French cities ranked by walk to work?: Le Puy-en-Velay, at 25.5 %, just behind Beausoleil (31.2 %).
Is Beausoleil really the French city ranked first on walk to work?: Yes, at 31.2 %, ahead of Le Puy-en-Velay (25.5 %) and Apatou (24.2 %).
In which département is Beausoleil?: Beausoleil is in département 06, in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region.
What is the difference between Beausoleil and Le Puy-en-Velay?: Beausoleil is at 31.2 %, Le Puy-en-Velay at 25.5 %. 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 walk to work?: Vesoul, at 20.8 %.
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: Beausoleil leads with 31.2 %.
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: Beausoleil (31.2 %), Le Puy-en-Velay (25.5 %), Apatou (24.2 %), Lons-le-Saunier (24.1 %), Aurillac (22.1 %), Briançon (22.1 %), Vichy (20.9 %), Nancy (20.8 %), Moulins (20.8 %), Vesoul (20.8 %).
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 French cities where fewest people walk to work and The rainiest 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.