What are the 10 French cities ranked by mean age?

In order: Arcachon, Le Touquet-Paris-Plage, Royan, Quiberon, Cabourg, Deauville, Cordes-sur-Ciel, Soorts-Hossegor, Gordes and Domme.

What is the top 5 of French cities ranked by mean age?

Arcachon (60.7 years), Le Touquet-Paris-Plage (58.9 years), Royan (57.7 years), Quiberon (57.5 years) and Cabourg (57.4 years).

Which city is 2nd in the ranking of French cities ranked by mean age?

Le Touquet-Paris-Plage, at 58.9 years, just behind Arcachon (60.7 years).

Is Arcachon really the French city ranked first on mean age?

Yes, at 60.7 years, ahead of Le Touquet-Paris-Plage (58.9 years) and Royan (57.7 years).

In which département is Arcachon?

Arcachon is in département 33, in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region.

What is the difference between Arcachon and Le Touquet-Paris-Plage?

Arcachon is at 60.7 years, Le Touquet-Paris-Plage at 58.9 years. 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?

1,102, with the top 50 listed in full in the table below.

What are the French cities ranked by mean age in 2026?

This ranking uses the most recent official figures published as of 2026: Arcachon leads with 60.7 years.

Is there a complete ranking of French cities ranked by mean age?

Yes, the table below: the top 50 of 1,102, each with its département and its region, and the exact method and scope stated underneath it.

In order: Arcachon (60.7 years), Le Touquet-Paris-Plage (58.9 years), Royan (57.7 years), Quiberon (57.5 years), Cabourg (57.4 years), Deauville (57.4 years), Cordes-sur-Ciel (57.4 years), Soorts-Hossegor (56.7 years), Gordes (56.7 years), Domme (55.9 years).

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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Arcachon leads on mean age, with 60.7 years, then Le Touquet-Paris-Plage (58.9 years) and Royan (57.7 years).

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Mean age, 1052 cities shown. The coloured surface is a local average over 34,852 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 · 2023.

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Top 50 of 1,102 cities
Rank	City	Mean age years	Population	Region
1	33 Arcachon	60.7	11,092	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
2	62 Le Touquet-Paris-Plage	58.9	4,224	Hauts-de-France
3	17 Royan	57.7	19,425	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
4	56 Quiberon	57.5	4,876	Bretagne
5	14 Cabourg	57.4	3,725	Normandie
6	14 Deauville	57.4	3,539	Normandie
7	81 Cordes-sur-Ciel	57.4	879	Occitanie
8	40 Soorts-Hossegor	56.7	3,817	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
9	84 Gordes	56.7	1,661	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
10	24 Domme	55.9	906	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
11	31 Bagnères-de-Luchon	55.8	2,076	Occitanie
12	80 Saint-Valery-sur-Somme	55.6	2,306	Hauts-de-France
13	66 Saint-Cyprien	55.4	12,068	Occitanie
14	76 Étretat	55.3	1,102	Normandie
15	66 Collioure	55.2	2,756	Occitanie
16	35 Dinard	55.0	10,772	Bretagne
17	44 La Baule-Escoublac	54.9	16,912	Pays de la Loire
18	85 Saint-Hilaire-de-Riez	54.8	13,074	Pays de la Loire
19	33 Andernos-les-Bains	54.8	12,710	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
20	14 Trouville-sur-Mer	54.5	4,619	Normandie
21	83 Sanary-sur-Mer	54.3	18,538	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
22	85 Les Sables-d'Olonne	53.8	49,603	Pays de la Loire
23	66 Canet-en-Roussillon	53.8	13,227	Occitanie
24	50 Granville	53.8	12,510	Normandie
25	83 Saint-Raphaël	53.6	37,113	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
26	83 La Londe-les-Maures	53.5	10,584	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
27	66 Argelès-sur-Mer	53.3	10,616	Occitanie
28	89 Vézelay	52.9	476	Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
29	27 Giverny	52.9	430	Normandie
30	30 Uzès	52.6	8,519	Occitanie
31	13 Cassis	52.6	6,661	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
32	83 Saint-Tropez	52.3	3,582	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
33	64 Biarritz	52.1	26,206	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
34	29 Fouesnant	52.1	10,436	Bretagne
35	13 Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer	52.1	2,433	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
36	84 Vaison-la-Romaine	52.0	6,058	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
37	35 Cancale	52.0	5,672	Bretagne
38	29 Douarnenez	51.8	14,068	Bretagne
39	06 Villefranche-sur-Mer	51.7	5,008	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
40	84 Ménerbes	51.7	962	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
41	64 Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port	51.6	1,479	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
42	65 Lourdes	51.4	13,266	Occitanie
43	83 Saint-Cyr-sur-Mer	51.4	11,658	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
44	44 Pornic	51.2	18,745	Pays de la Loire
45	44 Pornichet	51.2	12,800	Pays de la Loire
46	34 Agde	51.1	29,939	Occitanie
47	64 Saint-Jean-de-Luz	51.1	14,857	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
48	56 Ploemeur	51.0	18,872	Bretagne
49	24 Sarlat-la-Canéda	51.0	8,763	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
50	83 Sainte-Maxime	50.8	14,118	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur

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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.

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What are the 10 French cities ranked by mean age?: In order: Arcachon, Le Touquet-Paris-Plage, Royan, Quiberon, Cabourg, Deauville, Cordes-sur-Ciel, Soorts-Hossegor, Gordes and Domme.
What is the top 5 of French cities ranked by mean age?: Arcachon (60.7 years), Le Touquet-Paris-Plage (58.9 years), Royan (57.7 years), Quiberon (57.5 years) and Cabourg (57.4 years).
Which city is 2nd in the ranking of French cities ranked by mean age?: Le Touquet-Paris-Plage, at 58.9 years, just behind Arcachon (60.7 years).
Is Arcachon really the French city ranked first on mean age?: Yes, at 60.7 years, ahead of Le Touquet-Paris-Plage (58.9 years) and Royan (57.7 years).
In which département is Arcachon?: Arcachon is in département 33, in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region.
What is the difference between Arcachon and Le Touquet-Paris-Plage?: Arcachon is at 60.7 years, Le Touquet-Paris-Plage at 58.9 years. 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 mean age?: Domme, at 55.9 years.
How many French cities does this ranking compare?: 1,102, with the top 50 listed in full in the table below.
What are the French cities ranked by mean age in 2026?: This ranking uses the most recent official figures published as of 2026: Arcachon leads with 60.7 years.
Is there a complete ranking of French cities ranked by mean age?: Yes, the table below: the top 50 of 1,102, each with its département and its region, and the exact method and scope stated underneath it.
What are the top 10?: In order: Arcachon (60.7 years), Le Touquet-Paris-Plage (58.9 years), Royan (57.7 years), Quiberon (57.5 years), Cabourg (57.4 years), Deauville (57.4 years), Cordes-sur-Ciel (57.4 years), Soorts-Hossegor (56.7 years), Gordes (56.7 years), Domme (55.9 years).
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 1,102 cities in the dataset, each with its département, its region and the figure it is ranked on (mean age), 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 youngest cities in France and The richest cities in France by median income, 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.