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The French cities with the smallest homes

Clichy comes last on rooms per home, with 2.518 rooms, ahead of Beausoleil (2.590 rooms) and Paris (2.591 rooms).

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Rooms per home The French cities withthe smallest homes Local levels estimated from 34,852 communes The French cities withthe smallest homes MEDITERRANEAN SEA 3. Paris · 2.591 rooms 2. Beausoleil · 2.590 rooms 1. Clichy · 2.518 rooms 321 Colour shows the local level Colour shows the local level 4.746 rooms 4.401 rooms 3.563 rooms 4.746 rooms 4.401 rooms 3.563 rooms LE BON RANG lebonrang.fr · the daily French city-ranking game lebonrang.fr Source: INSEE, recensement de la population · 2023
Rooms per home, 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.

    Top 50 of 1,102 cities
    RankCityRooms per homePopulationRegion
    192 Clichy2.51864,410Île-de-France
    206 Beausoleil2.59011,936Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
    375 Paris2.5912,103,778Île-de-France
    494 Ivry-sur-Seine2.62465,064Île-de-France
    593 Aubervilliers2.64888,365Île-de-France
    693 Saint-Ouen-sur-Seine2.68153,615Île-de-France
    793 Le Pré-Saint-Gervais2.68316,993Île-de-France
    894 Gentilly2.70519,963Île-de-France
    992 Montrouge2.72346,324Île-de-France
    1093 Pantin2.72461,929Île-de-France
    1194 Le Kremlin-Bicêtre2.74424,110Île-de-France
    1292 Levallois-Perret2.74868,092Île-de-France
    1394 Vincennes2.75148,193Île-de-France
    1473 Tignes2.7601,919Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
    1573 Val-d'Isère2.7601,567Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
    1606 Roquebrune-Cap-Martin2.76212,037Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
    1706 Nice2.773357,737Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
    1892 Puteaux2.78944,002Île-de-France
    192B Corte2.7937,819Corse
    2093 Le Bourget2.80515,925Île-de-France
    2106 Cannes2.81374,350Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
    2294 Alfortville2.82945,531Île-de-France
    2392 Boulogne-Billancourt2.833119,019Île-de-France
    2406 Menton2.83930,604Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
    2594 Saint-Maurice2.84114,506Île-de-France
    2692 Courbevoie2.84382,902Île-de-France
    2774 Gaillard2.85711,423Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
    2893 Saint-Denis (93)2.860149,077Île-de-France
    2994 Charenton-le-Pont2.86328,830Île-de-France
    3034 Montpellier2.870310,240Occitanie
    3192 Issy-les-Moulineaux2.88767,669Île-de-France
    3206 Le Cannet2.89441,938Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
    3306 Mandelieu-la-Napoule2.89921,640Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
    3469 Villeurbanne2.900163,684Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
    3506 Cagnes-sur-Mer2.91053,354Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
    3692 Malakoff2.91030,557Île-de-France
    3793 Montreuil2.922111,934Île-de-France
    3894 Arcueil2.92322,200Île-de-France
    3993 Bagnolet2.92543,086Île-de-France
    4094 Saint-Mandé2.92621,071Île-de-France
    4192 Vanves2.93428,622Île-de-France
    4293 Les Lilas2.94323,843Île-de-France
    4306 Antibes2.94577,637Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
    4469 Lyon2.954519,127Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
    4576 Rouen2.959117,662Normandie
    4692 La Garenne-Colombes2.96430,197Île-de-France
    4731 Toulouse2.966514,819Occitanie
    48973 Cayenne2.97162,675Guyane
    4992 Asnières-sur-Seine2.97693,941Île-de-France
    5092 Gennevilliers2.98250,979Île-de-France

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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.

    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 rooms per home?
    In order: Clichy, Beausoleil, Paris, Ivry-sur-Seine, Aubervilliers, Saint-Ouen-sur-Seine, Le Pré-Saint-Gervais, Gentilly, Montrouge and Pantin.
    What is the top 5 of French cities ranked by rooms per home?
    Clichy (2.518 rooms), Beausoleil (2.590 rooms), Paris (2.591 rooms), Ivry-sur-Seine (2.624 rooms) and Aubervilliers (2.648 rooms).
    Which city is 2nd in the ranking of French cities ranked by rooms per home?
    Beausoleil, at 2.590 rooms, just behind Clichy (2.518 rooms).
    Is Clichy really the French city ranked last on rooms per home?
    Yes, at 2.518 rooms, ahead of Beausoleil (2.590 rooms) and Paris (2.591 rooms).
    In which département is Clichy?
    Clichy is in département 92, in the Île-de-France region.
    What is the difference between Clichy and Beausoleil?
    Clichy is at 2.518 rooms, Beausoleil at 2.590 rooms. 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 rooms per home?
    Pantin, at 2.724 rooms.
    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 rooms per home in 2026?
    This ranking uses the most recent official figures published as of 2026: Clichy leads with 2.518 rooms.
    Is there a complete ranking of French cities ranked by rooms per home?
    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: Clichy (2.518 rooms), Beausoleil (2.590 rooms), Paris (2.591 rooms), Ivry-sur-Seine (2.624 rooms), Aubervilliers (2.648 rooms), Saint-Ouen-sur-Seine (2.681 rooms), Le Pré-Saint-Gervais (2.683 rooms), Gentilly (2.705 rooms), Montrouge (2.723 rooms), Pantin (2.724 rooms).
    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 (rooms per home), 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 live alone and The French cities where fewest people live alone, 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.