What are the 10 French cities ranked by living alone?

In order: Moulins, Nancy, Vichy, Caen, Poitiers, Périgueux, Tarbes, Rodez, Rouen and Pau.

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

Moulins (61.6 %), Nancy (61.2 %), Vichy (61.0 %), Caen (60.8 %) and Poitiers (60.5 %).

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

Nancy, at 61.2 %, just behind Moulins (61.6 %).

Is Moulins really the French city ranked first on living alone?

Yes, at 61.6 %, ahead of Nancy (61.2 %) and Vichy (61.0 %).

In which département is Moulins?

Moulins is in département 03, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region.

What is the difference between Moulins and Nancy?

Moulins is at 61.6 %, Nancy at 61.2 %. 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: Moulins leads with 61.6 %.

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: Moulins (61.6 %), Nancy (61.2 %), Vichy (61.0 %), Caen (60.8 %), Poitiers (60.5 %), Périgueux (60.4 %), Tarbes (60.0 %), Rodez (59.5 %), Rouen (59.4 %), Pau (59.3 %).

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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Moulins leads on living alone, with 61.6 %, then Nancy (61.2 %) and Vichy (61.0 %).

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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	03 Moulins	61.6	19,206	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
2	54 Nancy	61.2	103,671	Grand Est
3	03 Vichy	61.0	25,115	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
4	14 Caen	60.8	109,400	Normandie
5	86 Poitiers	60.5	89,916	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
6	24 Périgueux	60.4	29,055	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
7	65 Tarbes	60.0	44,399	Occitanie
8	12 Rodez	59.5	23,981	Occitanie
9	76 Rouen	59.4	117,662	Normandie
10	64 Pau	59.3	80,441	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
11	43 Le Puy-en-Velay	59.3	18,540	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
12	37 Tours	58.6	139,259	Centre-Val de Loire
13	47 Agen	58.5	32,801	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
14	70 Vesoul	58.1	15,078	Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
15	16 Angoulême	57.9	41,908	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
16	40 Dax	57.9	22,109	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
17	63 Clermont-Ferrand	57.6	146,351	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
18	87 Limoges	57.5	129,937	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
19	21 Dijon	57.3	161,830	Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
20	42 Roanne	57.1	35,409	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
21	71 Chalon-sur-Saône	56.8	45,102	Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
22	56 Lorient	56.7	58,329	Bretagne
23	37 La Riche	56.7	10,487	Centre-Val de Loire
24	59 Lille	56.6	238,246	Hauts-de-France
25	45 Montargis	56.6	14,825	Centre-Val de Loire
26	39 Lons-le-Saunier	56.5	16,618	Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
27	63 Chamalières	56.0	17,509	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
28	23 Guéret	56.0	12,955	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
29	54 Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy	55.9	29,942	Grand Est
30	25 Besançon	55.7	118,489	Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
31	50 Granville	55.7	12,510	Normandie
32	29 Brest	55.4	142,346	Bretagne
33	58 Nevers	55.3	33,085	Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
34	49 Angers	55.2	159,022	Pays de la Loire
35	17 La Rochelle	55.2	79,851	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
36	10 Troyes	55.2	62,088	Grand Est
37	56 Vannes	55.2	55,790	Bretagne
38	15 Aurillac	55.2	26,214	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
39	56 Auray	55.2	14,207	Bretagne
40	31 Toulouse	55.1	514,819	Occitanie
41	03 Montluçon	55.1	33,147	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
42	63 Aubière	55.1	10,459	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
43	61 Alençon	55.0	25,490	Normandie
44	33 Bordeaux	54.8	267,991	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
45	33 Talence	54.6	46,338	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
46	34 Montpellier	54.5	310,240	Occitanie
47	35 Rennes	54.5	230,890	Bretagne
48	38 Grenoble	54.5	156,140	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
49	44 Nantes	54.4	327,734	Pays de la Loire
50	17 Royan	54.4	19,425	Nouvelle-Aquitaine

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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: Moulins, Nancy, Vichy, Caen, Poitiers, Périgueux, Tarbes, Rodez, Rouen and Pau.
What is the top 5 of French cities ranked by living alone?: Moulins (61.6 %), Nancy (61.2 %), Vichy (61.0 %), Caen (60.8 %) and Poitiers (60.5 %).
Which city is 2nd in the ranking of French cities ranked by living alone?: Nancy, at 61.2 %, just behind Moulins (61.6 %).
Is Moulins really the French city ranked first on living alone?: Yes, at 61.6 %, ahead of Nancy (61.2 %) and Vichy (61.0 %).
In which département is Moulins?: Moulins is in département 03, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region.
What is the difference between Moulins and Nancy?: Moulins is at 61.6 %, Nancy at 61.2 %. 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?: Pau, at 59.3 %.
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: Moulins leads with 61.6 %.
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: Moulins (61.6 %), Nancy (61.2 %), Vichy (61.0 %), Caen (60.8 %), Poitiers (60.5 %), Périgueux (60.4 %), Tarbes (60.0 %), Rodez (59.5 %), Rouen (59.4 %), Pau (59.3 %).
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 fewest people live alone and The French cities where most 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.