What is the busiest station in Nord?

Lille, at 32,398,939, ahead of Douai (3,472,422).

What is the quietest station in Nord?

Croix, at 2,283. 32 cities of Nord are measured here.

Where does Lille stand in France?

9 of the 599 French cities measured on train station. The national ranking is on its own page.

Which cities lead in Nord?

Lille (32,398,939), Douai (3,472,422), Valenciennes (3,373,297), Dunkerque (2,249,345), Hazebrouck (1,974,422). The whole table is on this page.

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The busiest railway stations in Nord

Lille is the busiest station in Nord, at 32,398,939, ahead of Douai (3,472,422) and Valenciennes (3,373,297). At the other end, Croix is the quietest station, at 2,283.

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The 32 cities of Nord ranked on train station
Rank	City	Train station	Population
1	Lille	32,398,939	238,246
2	Douai	3,472,422	40,250
3	Valenciennes	3,373,297	43,468
4	Dunkerque	2,249,345	86,263
5	Hazebrouck	1,974,422	21,912
6	Bailleul	1,393,643	14,732
7	Armentières	1,072,940	26,998
8	Saint-Amand-les-Eaux	840,161	15,974
9	Tourcoing	806,899	98,772
10	Cambrai	720,845	31,134
11	Maubeuge	600,242	28,767
12	Seclin	392,035	13,261
13	Somain	387,127	11,766
14	Fourmies	174,812	11,449
15	Caudry	155,967	13,833
16	Roubaix	138,862	98,286
17	Haubourdin	83,253	15,074
18	Jeumont	82,089	10,160
19	Ronchin	76,461	19,787
20	Villeneuve-d'Ascq	73,565	62,868
21	Hautmont	58,624	14,152
22	Loos	57,811	22,567
23	Gravelines	43,409	11,430
24	Raismes	32,081	12,199
25	Saint-André-lez-Lille	29,626	13,233
26	La Madeleine	27,897	21,790
27	Denain	24,409	20,665
28	Grande-Synthe	13,163	20,239
29	Coudekerque-Branche	12,369	20,787
30	Sin-le-Noble	12,146	16,076
31	Wasquehal	5,990	20,726
32	Croix	2,283	20,566

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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 metropolitan only: the distance to the coast is measured against the coastlines of the Hexagon and Corsica, which would put an overseas port thousands of kilometres from a sea it sits on, so no value is published for overseas France rather than a wrong 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.

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What is the busiest station in Nord?: Lille, at 32,398,939, ahead of Douai (3,472,422).
What is the quietest station in Nord?: Croix, at 2,283. 32 cities of Nord are measured here.
Where does Lille stand in France?: 9 of the 599 French cities measured on train station. The national ranking is on its own page.
Which cities lead in Nord?: Lille (32,398,939), Douai (3,472,422), Valenciennes (3,373,297), Dunkerque (2,249,345), Hazebrouck (1,974,422). The whole table is on this page.