In La Réunion · INSEE, populations légales
Le Port is the most densely populated city in La Réunion, at 2,099 inhab./km², ahead of Saint-Denis (974) (1,093 inhab./km²) and Saint-André (1,077 inhab./km²). At the other end, Bras-Panon is the least densely populated city, at 148 inhab./km².
| Rank | City | Density | Population |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Le Port | 2,099 inhab./km² | 33,969 |
| 2 | Saint-Denis (974) | 1,093 inhab./km² | 155,634 |
| 3 | Saint-André | 1,077 inhab./km² | 58,885 |
| 4 | Saint-Pierre | 878 inhab./km² | 85,038 |
| 5 | Saint-Louis (974) | 553 inhab./km² | 54,941 |
| 6 | Le Tampon | 453 inhab./km² | 82,579 |
| 7 | Saint-Paul | 447 inhab./km² | 108,088 |
| 8 | Sainte-Suzanne | 439 inhab./km² | 25,551 |
| 9 | Les Avirons | 437 inhab./km² | 11,536 |
| 10 | Sainte-Marie (974) | 417 inhab./km² | 37,093 |
| 11 | Petite-Île | 383 inhab./km² | 13,067 |
| 12 | L'Étang-Salé | 375 inhab./km² | 14,464 |
| 13 | La Possession | 306 inhab./km² | 36,568 |
| 14 | Saint-Leu | 305 inhab./km² | 36,163 |
| 15 | Saint-Joseph (974) | 219 inhab./km² | 39,207 |
| 16 | Saint-Benoît | 167 inhab./km² | 38,604 |
| 17 | Bras-Panon | 148 inhab./km² | 13,012 |
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.