What are the 10 French cities ranked by living alone?

In order: Apatou, Charvieu-Chavagneux, Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni, Clichy-sous-Bois, Mana, Marck, Kourou, Macouria, La Queue-en-Brie and Ormesson-sur-Marne.

What is the top 5 of French cities ranked by living alone?

Apatou (14.9 %), Charvieu-Chavagneux (17.6 %), Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni (18.1 %), Clichy-sous-Bois (18.9 %) and Mana (19.0 %).

Which city is 2nd in the ranking of French cities ranked by living alone?

Charvieu-Chavagneux, at 17.6 %, just behind Apatou (14.9 %).

In which département is Apatou?

Apatou is in département 973, in the Guyane region.

What is the difference between Apatou and Charvieu-Chavagneux?

Apatou is at 14.9 %, Charvieu-Chavagneux at 17.6 %. The table gives the same figure for all 50 places, so any two of them can be compared the same way.

How many French cities does this ranking compare?

1,038, with the top 50 listed in full in the table below.

What are the French cities ranked by living alone in 2026?

This ranking uses the most recent official figures published as of 2026: Apatou leads with 14.9 %.

Is there a complete ranking of French cities ranked by living alone?

Yes, the table below: the top 50 of 1,038, each with its département and its region, and the exact method and scope stated underneath it.

In order: Apatou (14.9 %), Charvieu-Chavagneux (17.6 %), Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni (18.1 %), Clichy-sous-Bois (18.9 %), Mana (19.0 %), Marck (20.4 %), Kourou (21.3 %), Macouria (21.5 %), La Queue-en-Brie (21.8 %), Ormesson-sur-Marne (22.0 %).

Where does this figure come from?

Straight from INSEE, recensement de la population, joined to each commune by its INSEE code and never retyped by hand. A commune the source does not cover is left out of the table rather than shown as a zero: an absence and a measured zero are different facts, and only one of them is safe to rank.

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Apatou comes last on living alone, with 14.9 %, ahead of Charvieu-Chavagneux (17.6 %) and Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni (18.1 %).

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Living alone, 988 cities shown. The coloured surface is a local average over 34,844 communes, 98.8% 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. 50 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: INSEE, recensement de la population · 2022.

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Top 50 of 1,038 cities
Rank	City	Living alone %	Population	Region
1	973 Apatou	14.9	10,306	Guyane
2	38 Charvieu-Chavagneux	17.6	10,547	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
3	973 Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni	18.1	54,429	Guyane
4	93 Clichy-sous-Bois	18.9	29,354	Île-de-France
5	973 Mana	19.0	10,957	Guyane
6	62 Marck	20.4	10,467	Hauts-de-France
7	973 Kourou	21.3	24,824	Guyane
8	973 Macouria	21.5	19,899	Guyane
9	94 La Queue-en-Brie	21.8	12,241	Île-de-France
10	94 Ormesson-sur-Marne	22.0	10,977	Île-de-France
11	44 Treillières	22.2	10,600	Pays de la Loire
12	69 Genas	22.3	13,421	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
13	95 Jouy-le-Moutier	22.9	17,854	Île-de-France
14	91 Saint-Germain-lès-Arpajon	23.0	11,623	Île-de-France
15	95 Montigny-lès-Cormeilles	23.1	22,457	Île-de-France
16	974 Sainte-Suzanne	23.3	25,551	La Réunion
17	49 Brissac Loire Aubance	23.4	10,878	Pays de la Loire
18	13 Fuveau	23.4	10,337	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
19	973 Matoury	23.6	36,512	Guyane
20	33 Mios	23.6	12,043	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
21	93 Montfermeil	23.8	28,703	Île-de-France
22	49 Loire-Authion	24.0	16,765	Pays de la Loire
23	78 Chanteloup-les-Vignes	24.4	10,861	Île-de-France
24	974 Sainte-Marie (974)	24.6	37,093	La Réunion
25	06 Carros	24.7	13,803	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
26	91 Bondoufle	24.8	10,767	Île-de-France
27	13 Cabriès	24.8	10,240	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
28	93 Villepinte	24.9	41,470	Île-de-France
29	34 Saint-Gély-du-Fesc	24.9	10,472	Occitanie
30	2B Bastia	25.0	46,867	Corse
31	95 Arnouville	25.2	15,023	Île-de-France
32	74 Fillière	25.3	10,075	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
33	974 Saint-Louis (974)	25.4	54,941	La Réunion
34	77 Savigny-le-Temple	25.4	31,148	Île-de-France
35	69 Mions	25.5	13,843	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
36	93 Sevran	25.6	52,535	Île-de-France
37	95 Garges-lès-Gonesse	25.6	41,791	Île-de-France
38	13 Les Pennes-Mirabeau	25.7	22,537	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
39	37 Fondettes	25.7	10,954	Centre-Val de Loire
40	66 Pia	26.0	11,615	Occitanie
41	974 Saint-André	26.2	58,885	La Réunion
42	13 Gignac-la-Nerthe	26.2	10,343	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
43	95 Goussainville	26.3	31,301	Île-de-France
44	33 Saint-Loubès	26.3	10,027	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
45	33 Le Taillan-Médoc	26.5	11,073	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
46	77 Roissy-en-Brie	26.6	23,229	Île-de-France
47	974 L'Étang-Salé	26.6	14,464	La Réunion
48	95 Louvres	26.6	12,560	Île-de-France
49	35 Châteaugiron	26.6	10,845	Bretagne
50	95 Vauréal	26.7	16,079	Île-de-France

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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. This particular ranking is a rate per inhabitant, so it covers towns of 10,000 people or more only: in a village of a hundred, three licence holders would read as thirty per thousand and outrank a town with a professional club, so no rate is published below that size rather than a meaningless 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.

12 questions about this ranking

What are the 10 French cities ranked by living alone?: In order: Apatou, Charvieu-Chavagneux, Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni, Clichy-sous-Bois, Mana, Marck, Kourou, Macouria, La Queue-en-Brie and Ormesson-sur-Marne.
What is the top 5 of French cities ranked by living alone?: Apatou (14.9 %), Charvieu-Chavagneux (17.6 %), Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni (18.1 %), Clichy-sous-Bois (18.9 %) and Mana (19.0 %).
Which city is 2nd in the ranking of French cities ranked by living alone?: Charvieu-Chavagneux, at 17.6 %, just behind Apatou (14.9 %).
Is Apatou really the French city ranked last on living alone?: Yes, at 14.9 %, ahead of Charvieu-Chavagneux (17.6 %) and Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni (18.1 %).
In which département is Apatou?: Apatou is in département 973, in the Guyane region.
What is the difference between Apatou and Charvieu-Chavagneux?: Apatou is at 14.9 %, Charvieu-Chavagneux at 17.6 %. The table gives the same figure for all 50 places, so any two of them can be compared the same way.
Which city is 10th in the ranking of French cities ranked by living alone?: Ormesson-sur-Marne, at 22.0 %.
How many French cities does this ranking compare?: 1,038, with the top 50 listed in full in the table below.
What are the French cities ranked by living alone in 2026?: This ranking uses the most recent official figures published as of 2026: Apatou leads with 14.9 %.
Is there a complete ranking of French cities ranked by living alone?: Yes, the table below: the top 50 of 1,038, each with its département and its region, and the exact method and scope stated underneath it.
What are the top 10?: In order: Apatou (14.9 %), Charvieu-Chavagneux (17.6 %), Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni (18.1 %), Clichy-sous-Bois (18.9 %), Mana (19.0 %), Marck (20.4 %), Kourou (21.3 %), Macouria (21.5 %), La Queue-en-Brie (21.8 %), Ormesson-sur-Marne (22.0 %).
Where does this figure come from?: Straight from INSEE, recensement de la population, joined to each commune by its INSEE code and never retyped by hand. A commune the source does not cover is left out of the table rather than shown as a zero: an absence and a measured zero are different facts, and only one of them is safe to rank.

The table below ranks the top 50 of the 1,038 cities in the dataset, each with its département, its region and the figure it is ranked on (living alone), 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 cities where most people cycle to work and The French cities where fewest people cycle to work, 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.