What are the 10 French cities ranked by train station?

In order: Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire, Croix, Amnéville, Saint-Jacques-de-la-Lande, Chamalières, Wasquehal, Hayange, Le Pont-de-Claix, Rocamadour and Sin-le-Noble.

What is the top 5 of French cities ranked by train station?

Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire (1,467), Croix (2,283), Amnéville (4,341), Saint-Jacques-de-la-Lande (4,619) and Chamalières (5,871).

Which city is 2nd in the ranking of French cities ranked by train station?

Croix, at 2,283, just behind Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire (1,467).

Is Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire really the French city ranked last on train station?

Yes, at 1,467, ahead of Croix (2,283) and Amnéville (4,341).

In which département is Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire?

Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire is in département 37, in the Centre-Val de Loire region.

What is the difference between Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire and Croix?

Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire is at 1,467, Croix at 2,283. 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?

599, with the top 50 listed in full in the table below.

What are the French cities ranked by train station in 2026?

This ranking uses the most recent official figures published as of 2026: Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire leads with 1,467.

Is there a complete ranking of French cities ranked by train station?

Yes, the table below: the top 50 of 599, each with its département and its region, and the exact method and scope stated underneath it.

In order: Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire (1,467), Croix (2,283), Amnéville (4,341), Saint-Jacques-de-la-Lande (4,619), Chamalières (5,871), Wasquehal (5,990), Hayange (6,048), Le Pont-de-Claix (9,187), Rocamadour (11,396), Sin-le-Noble (12,146).

Where does this figure come from?

Straight from SNCF, fréquentation en gares, 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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Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire comes last on train station, with 1,467, ahead of Croix (2,283) and Amnéville (4,341).

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Train station, 599 cities shown. The coloured surface adds up train station over 2,424 communes, 44.6% of the country's population, within about 30 km of each point. Every commune with a published value counts, not only the towns in the table. This ranking rewards the smallest total, so the darkest areas are the emptiest ones. Projection: longitude compressed by cos(46.3°N), so east-west and north-south distances stay comparable. Source: SNCF, fréquentation en gares.

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Top 50 of 599 cities
Rank	City	Train station	Population	Region
1	37 Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire	1,467	17,029	Centre-Val de Loire
2	59 Croix	2,283	20,566	Hauts-de-France
3	57 Amnéville	4,341	10,875	Grand Est
4	35 Saint-Jacques-de-la-Lande	4,619	13,800	Bretagne
5	63 Chamalières	5,871	17,509	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
6	59 Wasquehal	5,990	20,726	Hauts-de-France
7	57 Hayange	6,048	15,806	Grand Est
8	38 Le Pont-de-Claix	9,187	10,956	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
9	46 Rocamadour	11,396	597	Occitanie
10	59 Sin-le-Noble	12,146	16,076	Hauts-de-France
11	45 La Chapelle-Saint-Mesmin	12,208	11,017	Centre-Val de Loire
12	59 Coudekerque-Branche	12,369	20,787	Hauts-de-France
13	12 Najac	12,799	771	Occitanie
14	28 Lucé	12,934	15,921	Centre-Val de Loire
15	59 Grande-Synthe	13,163	20,239	Hauts-de-France
16	33 Villenave-d'Ornon	13,573	42,545	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
17	76 Sotteville-lès-Rouen	14,899	29,003	Normandie
18	62 Méricourt	18,631	11,619	Hauts-de-France
19	83 Vidauban	19,866	12,608	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
20	79 Bressuire	20,062	19,970	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
21	30 Pont-Saint-Esprit	20,262	10,958	Occitanie
22	30 Aigues-Mortes	22,731	8,699	Occitanie
23	59 Denain	24,409	20,665	Hauts-de-France
24	59 La Madeleine	27,897	21,790	Hauts-de-France
25	84 Pertuis	28,017	19,548	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
26	33 Le Bouscat	29,418	25,081	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
27	59 Saint-André-lez-Lille	29,626	13,233	Hauts-de-France
28	74 Passy	30,425	10,856	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
29	59 Raismes	32,081	12,199	Hauts-de-France
30	33 Bruges	32,557	20,020	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
31	13 Septèmes-les-Vallons	32,650	11,995	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
32	79 Thouars	32,916	13,891	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
33	87 Saint-Junien	35,397	11,415	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
34	44 Saint-Herblain	36,061	50,973	Pays de la Loire
35	42 Le Chambon-Feugerolles	38,271	12,314	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
36	12 Millau	38,857	22,044	Occitanie
37	76 Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray	39,456	29,518	Normandie
38	30 Bagnols-sur-Cèze	40,110	18,112	Occitanie
39	50 Avranches	40,521	10,143	Normandie
40	59 Gravelines	43,409	11,430	Hauts-de-France
41	24 Boulazac Isle Manoire	45,696	10,759	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
42	63 Gerzat	45,834	10,335	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
43	69 Rillieux-la-Pape	47,798	31,389	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
44	63 Thiers	49,614	11,637	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
45	62 Montreuil-sur-Mer	51,218	1,912	Hauts-de-France
46	62 Liévin	54,889	30,063	Hauts-de-France
47	64 Guéthary	55,069	1,306	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
48	67 Bischheim	55,191	18,558	Grand Est
49	33 Parempuyre	55,602	10,672	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
50	44 Châteaubriant	56,208	12,260	Pays de la Loire

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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.

12 questions about this ranking

What are the 10 French cities ranked by train station?: In order: Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire, Croix, Amnéville, Saint-Jacques-de-la-Lande, Chamalières, Wasquehal, Hayange, Le Pont-de-Claix, Rocamadour and Sin-le-Noble.
What is the top 5 of French cities ranked by train station?: Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire (1,467), Croix (2,283), Amnéville (4,341), Saint-Jacques-de-la-Lande (4,619) and Chamalières (5,871).
Which city is 2nd in the ranking of French cities ranked by train station?: Croix, at 2,283, just behind Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire (1,467).
Is Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire really the French city ranked last on train station?: Yes, at 1,467, ahead of Croix (2,283) and Amnéville (4,341).
In which département is Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire?: Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire is in département 37, in the Centre-Val de Loire region.
What is the difference between Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire and Croix?: Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire is at 1,467, Croix at 2,283. 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 train station?: Sin-le-Noble, at 12,146.
How many French cities does this ranking compare?: 599, with the top 50 listed in full in the table below.
What are the French cities ranked by train station in 2026?: This ranking uses the most recent official figures published as of 2026: Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire leads with 1,467.
Is there a complete ranking of French cities ranked by train station?: Yes, the table below: the top 50 of 599, each with its département and its region, and the exact method and scope stated underneath it.
What are the top 10?: In order: Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire (1,467), Croix (2,283), Amnéville (4,341), Saint-Jacques-de-la-Lande (4,619), Chamalières (5,871), Wasquehal (5,990), Hayange (6,048), Le Pont-de-Claix (9,187), Rocamadour (11,396), Sin-le-Noble (12,146).
Where does this figure come from?: Straight from SNCF, fréquentation en gares, 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 599 cities in the dataset, each with its département, its region and the figure it is ranked on (train station), 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 Home burglaries: the top 50 French cities and Home burglaries: the bottom 50 French cities, 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.