What are the 10 French cities ranked by driving test?

In order: Mende, Saint-Chély-d'Apcher, Le Puy-en-Velay, Niort, Bressuire, Thouars, Parthenay, Montluçon, Vichy and Moulins.

What is the top 5 of French cities ranked by driving test?

Mende (79.9 %), Saint-Chély-d'Apcher (79.9 %), Le Puy-en-Velay (72.9 %), Niort (72.7 %) and Bressuire (72.7 %).

Which city is 2nd in the ranking of French cities ranked by driving test?

Saint-Chély-d'Apcher, at 79.9 %, just behind Mende (79.9 %).

Is Mende really the French city ranked first on driving test?

Yes, at 79.9 %, ahead of Saint-Chély-d'Apcher (79.9 %) and Le Puy-en-Velay (72.9 %).

In which département is Mende?

Mende is in département 48, in the Occitanie region.

How many French cities does this ranking compare?

1,112, with the top 50 listed in full in the table below.

What are the French cities ranked by driving test in 2026?

This ranking uses the most recent official figures published as of 2026: Mende leads with 79.9 %.

Is there a complete ranking of French cities ranked by driving test?

Yes, the table below: the top 50 of 1,112, each with its département and its region, and the exact method and scope stated underneath it.

In order: Mende (79.9 %), Saint-Chély-d'Apcher (79.9 %), Le Puy-en-Velay (72.9 %), Niort (72.7 %), Bressuire (72.7 %), Thouars (72.7 %), Parthenay (72.7 %), Montluçon (71.7 %), Vichy (71.7 %), Moulins (71.7 %).

Is this figure really about the city?

No: it is measured for the whole département, and every commune of that département carries the same figure. It is ranked this way because driving test is not published commune by commune, and a per-commune count would be almost entirely zeros. Read each row as "this town's département", not "this town".

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Mende leads on driving test, with 79.9 %, then Saint-Chély-d'Apcher (79.9 %) and Le Puy-en-Velay (72.9 %).

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Driving test, 1052 cities shown. The coloured surface is a local average over 34,875 communes, 99.1% 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. 60 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: Sécurité routière.

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Top 50 of 1,112 cities
Rank	City	Driving test %	Population	Region
1	48 Mende	79.9	12,464	Occitanie
2	48 Saint-Chély-d'Apcher	79.9	3,955	Occitanie
3	43 Le Puy-en-Velay	72.9	18,540	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
4	79 Niort	72.7	59,854	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
5	79 Bressuire	72.7	19,970	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
6	79 Thouars	72.7	13,891	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
7	79 Parthenay	72.7	10,140	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
8	03 Montluçon	71.7	33,147	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
9	03 Vichy	71.7	25,115	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
10	03 Moulins	71.7	19,206	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
11	03 Cusset	71.7	13,316	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
12	03 Yzeure	71.7	12,897	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
13	01 Bourg-en-Bresse	71.4	42,372	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
14	01 Oyonnax	71.4	22,480	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
15	32 Auch	71.4	22,428	Occitanie
16	01 Valserhône	71.4	16,712	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
17	01 Ambérieu-en-Bugey	71.4	15,934	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
18	01 Saint-Genis-Pouilly	71.4	14,432	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
19	01 Gex	71.4	13,627	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
20	01 Ferney-Voltaire	71.4	12,094	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
21	01 Divonne-les-Bains	71.4	10,464	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
22	01 Miribel	71.4	10,395	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
23	01 Pérouges	71.4	1,387	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
24	05 Gap	71.2	41,293	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
25	05 Briançon	71.2	11,411	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
26	85 La Roche-sur-Yon	71.1	54,849	Pays de la Loire
27	85 Les Sables-d'Olonne	71.1	49,603	Pays de la Loire
28	85 Challans	71.1	22,943	Pays de la Loire
29	85 Montaigu-Vendée	71.1	21,134	Pays de la Loire
30	85 Les Herbiers	71.1	16,521	Pays de la Loire
31	85 Fontenay-le-Comte	71.1	14,059	Pays de la Loire
32	85 Saint-Hilaire-de-Riez	71.1	13,074	Pays de la Loire
33	85 Aizenay	71.1	10,365	Pays de la Loire
34	85 L'Île-d'Yeu	71.1	4,883	Pays de la Loire
35	61 Alençon	69.7	25,490	Normandie
36	61 Flers	69.7	14,432	Normandie
37	61 Argentan	69.7	13,527	Normandie
38	41 Blois	69.4	47,219	Centre-Val de Loire
39	41 Romorantin-Lanthenay	69.4	18,373	Centre-Val de Loire
40	41 Vendôme	69.4	15,758	Centre-Val de Loire
41	41 Chambord	69.4	102	Centre-Val de Loire
42	49 Angers	68.6	159,022	Pays de la Loire
43	49 Cholet	68.6	54,404	Pays de la Loire
44	49 Saumur	68.6	26,241	Pays de la Loire
45	49 Sèvremoine	68.6	25,797	Pays de la Loire
46	49 Beaupréau-en-Mauges	68.6	23,989	Pays de la Loire
47	49 Chemillé-en-Anjou	68.6	21,999	Pays de la Loire
48	49 Mauges-sur-Loire	68.6	18,695	Pays de la Loire
49	49 Segré-en-Anjou Bleu	68.6	17,667	Pays de la Loire
50	49 Orée d'Anjou	68.6	17,162	Pays de la Loire

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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.

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.

11 questions about this ranking

What are the 10 French cities ranked by driving test?: In order: Mende, Saint-Chély-d'Apcher, Le Puy-en-Velay, Niort, Bressuire, Thouars, Parthenay, Montluçon, Vichy and Moulins.
What is the top 5 of French cities ranked by driving test?: Mende (79.9 %), Saint-Chély-d'Apcher (79.9 %), Le Puy-en-Velay (72.9 %), Niort (72.7 %) and Bressuire (72.7 %).
Which city is 2nd in the ranking of French cities ranked by driving test?: Saint-Chély-d'Apcher, at 79.9 %, just behind Mende (79.9 %).
Is Mende really the French city ranked first on driving test?: Yes, at 79.9 %, ahead of Saint-Chély-d'Apcher (79.9 %) and Le Puy-en-Velay (72.9 %).
In which département is Mende?: Mende is in département 48, in the Occitanie region.
Which city is 10th in the ranking of French cities ranked by driving test?: Moulins, at 71.7 %.
How many French cities does this ranking compare?: 1,112, with the top 50 listed in full in the table below.
What are the French cities ranked by driving test in 2026?: This ranking uses the most recent official figures published as of 2026: Mende leads with 79.9 %.
Is there a complete ranking of French cities ranked by driving test?: Yes, the table below: the top 50 of 1,112, each with its département and its region, and the exact method and scope stated underneath it.
What are the top 10?: In order: Mende (79.9 %), Saint-Chély-d'Apcher (79.9 %), Le Puy-en-Velay (72.9 %), Niort (72.7 %), Bressuire (72.7 %), Thouars (72.7 %), Parthenay (72.7 %), Montluçon (71.7 %), Vichy (71.7 %), Moulins (71.7 %).
Is this figure really about the city?: No: it is measured for the whole département, and every commune of that département carries the same figure. It is ranked this way because driving test is not published commune by commune, and a per-commune count would be almost entirely zeros. Read each row as "this town's département", not "this town".

The table below ranks the top 50 of the 1,112 cities in the dataset, each with its département, its region and the figure it is ranked on (driving test), 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 départements where the driving test is hardest to pass and The French départements with the most speed cameras, 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.