In Calvados · INSEE, populations légales
Caen is the most densely populated city in Calvados, at 4,257 inhab./km², ahead of Hérouville-Saint-Clair (2,204 inhab./km²) and Bayeux (1,787 inhab./km²). At the other end, Vire Normandie is the least densely populated city, at 124 inhab./km².
| Rank | City | Density | Population |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Caen | 4,257 inhab./km² | 109,400 |
| 2 | Hérouville-Saint-Clair | 2,204 inhab./km² | 23,470 |
| 3 | Bayeux | 1,787 inhab./km² | 12,659 |
| 4 | Lisieux | 1,504 inhab./km² | 19,645 |
| 5 | Ifs | 1,319 inhab./km² | 11,937 |
| 6 | Mondeville | 1,141 inhab./km² | 10,331 |
| 7 | Deauville | 921 inhab./km² | 3,539 |
| 8 | Cabourg | 692 inhab./km² | 3,725 |
| 9 | Trouville-sur-Mer | 678 inhab./km² | 4,619 |
| 10 | Honfleur | 483 inhab./km² | 6,640 |
| 11 | Vire Normandie | 124 inhab./km² | 17,457 |
The same ranking for the whole of France : The densest cities in France · The least densely populated cities in France
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.