In Gard · INSEE, populations légales
Alès is the most densely populated city in Gard, at 1,981 inhab./km², ahead of Nîmes (942 inhab./km²) and Villeneuve-lès-Avignon (723 inhab./km²). At the other end, Saint-Gilles is the least densely populated city, at 97 inhab./km².
| Rank | City | Density | Population |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alès | 1,981 inhab./km² | 46,125 |
| 2 | Nîmes | 942 inhab./km² | 151,839 |
| 3 | Villeneuve-lès-Avignon | 723 inhab./km² | 13,148 |
| 4 | Pont-Saint-Esprit | 585 inhab./km² | 10,958 |
| 5 | Bagnols-sur-Cèze | 580 inhab./km² | 18,112 |
| 6 | Uzès | 335 inhab./km² | 8,519 |
| 7 | Beaucaire | 181 inhab./km² | 15,692 |
| 8 | Aigues-Mortes | 151 inhab./km² | 8,699 |
| 9 | Vauvert | 106 inhab./km² | 11,671 |
| 10 | Saint-Gilles | 97 inhab./km² | 14,734 |
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.