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The French départements with the most speed cameras

Saint-Dizier leads on speed cameras, with 17.2 / 100,000 inhabitants, then Chaumont (17.2 / 100,000 inhabitants) and Colombey les Deux Églises (17.2 / 100,000 inhabitants).

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Speed cameras The French départementswith the most speed cameras Local levels estimated from 34,858 communes The French départementswith the most speed cameras MEDITERRANEAN SEA 3. Colombey les Deux Églises · 17.2 / 100,000 inhab. 2. Chaumont · 17.2 / 100,000 inhab. 1. Saint-Dizier · 17.2 / 100,000 inhab. 321 Colour shows the local level Colour shows the local level 2.6 / 100,000 inhab. 6 / 100,000 inhab. 13.7 / 100,000 inhab. 2.6 / 100,000 inhab. 6 / 100,000 inhab. 13.7 / 100,000 inhab. LE BON RANG lebonrang.fr · the daily French city-ranking game lebonrang.fr Source: Sécurité routière
Speed cameras, 1052 cities shown. The coloured surface is a local average over 34,858 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: Sécurité routière.

    Top 50 of 1,102 cities
    RankCitySpeed cameras / 100,000 inhab.PopulationRegion
    152 Saint-Dizier17.222,858Grand Est
    252 Chaumont17.220,827Grand Est
    352 Colombey les Deux Églises17.2661Grand Est
    461 Alençon16.425,490Normandie
    561 Flers16.414,432Normandie
    661 Argentan16.413,527Normandie
    760 Beauvais15.455,550Hauts-de-France
    860 Compiègne15.440,761Hauts-de-France
    960 Creil15.436,301Hauts-de-France
    1060 Nogent-sur-Oise15.421,907Hauts-de-France
    1160 Senlis15.415,157Hauts-de-France
    1260 Crépy-en-Valois15.414,351Hauts-de-France
    1360 Montataire15.414,257Hauts-de-France
    1460 Méru15.413,897Hauts-de-France
    1560 Noyon15.412,971Hauts-de-France
    1660 Pont-Sainte-Maxence15.412,361Hauts-de-France
    1760 Chantilly15.410,591Hauts-de-France
    1860 Clermont15.410,564Hauts-de-France
    1940 Mont-de-Marsan14.831,592Nouvelle-Aquitaine
    2040 Dax14.822,109Nouvelle-Aquitaine
    2140 Biscarrosse14.815,836Nouvelle-Aquitaine
    2240 Saint-Paul-lès-Dax14.814,481Nouvelle-Aquitaine
    2340 Tarnos14.812,957Nouvelle-Aquitaine
    2440 Saint-Pierre-du-Mont14.810,092Nouvelle-Aquitaine
    2540 Soorts-Hossegor14.83,817Nouvelle-Aquitaine
    2682 Montauban13.962,945Occitanie
    2782 Castelsarrasin13.914,343Occitanie
    2882 Moissac13.913,419Occitanie
    2947 Agen12.332,801Nouvelle-Aquitaine
    3047 Villeneuve-sur-Lot12.322,350Nouvelle-Aquitaine
    3147 Marmande12.317,328Nouvelle-Aquitaine
    3223 Guéret12.112,955Nouvelle-Aquitaine
    3332 Auch11.422,428Occitanie
    34972 Fort-de-France11.475,506Martinique
    35972 Le Lamentin11.439,400Martinique
    36972 Le Robert11.421,553Martinique
    37972 Schœlcher11.419,478Martinique
    38972 Ducos11.418,105Martinique
    39972 Saint-Joseph (972)11.416,258Martinique
    40972 Le François11.415,778Martinique
    41972 Sainte-Marie (972)11.414,756Martinique
    42972 Rivière-Salée11.411,829Martinique
    43972 Rivière-Pilote11.411,604Martinique
    44972 La Trinité (972)11.411,454Martinique
    45972 Saint-Esprit11.410,322Martinique
    4616 Angoulême11.141,908Nouvelle-Aquitaine
    4716 Cognac11.118,532Nouvelle-Aquitaine
    4816 Soyaux11.110,087Nouvelle-Aquitaine
    4910 Troyes1162,088Grand Est
    5010 Romilly-sur-Seine1114,959Grand Est

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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.

    11 questions about this ranking
    What are the 10 French cities ranked by speed cameras?
    In order: Saint-Dizier, Chaumont, Colombey les Deux Églises, Alençon, Flers, Argentan, Beauvais, Compiègne, Creil and Nogent-sur-Oise.
    What is the top 5 of French cities ranked by speed cameras?
    Saint-Dizier (17.2 / 100,000 inhab.), Chaumont (17.2 / 100,000 inhab.), Colombey les Deux Églises (17.2 / 100,000 inhab.), Alençon (16.4 / 100,000 inhab.) and Flers (16.4 / 100,000 inhab.).
    Which city is 2nd in the ranking of French cities ranked by speed cameras?
    Chaumont, at 17.2 / 100,000 inhab., just behind Saint-Dizier (17.2 / 100,000 inhab.).
    Is Saint-Dizier really the French city ranked first on speed cameras?
    Yes, at 17.2 / 100,000 inhab., ahead of Chaumont (17.2 / 100,000 inhab.) and Colombey les Deux Églises (17.2 / 100,000 inhab.).
    In which département is Saint-Dizier?
    Saint-Dizier is in département 52, in the Grand Est region.
    Which city is 10th in the ranking of French cities ranked by speed cameras?
    Nogent-sur-Oise, at 15.4 / 100,000 inhab.
    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 speed cameras in 2026?
    This ranking uses the most recent official figures published as of 2026: Saint-Dizier leads with 17.2 / 100,000 inhab.
    Is there a complete ranking of French cities ranked by speed cameras?
    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: Saint-Dizier (17.2 / 100,000 inhab.), Chaumont (17.2 / 100,000 inhab.), Colombey les Deux Églises (17.2 / 100,000 inhab.), Alençon (16.4 / 100,000 inhab.), Flers (16.4 / 100,000 inhab.), Argentan (16.4 / 100,000 inhab.), Beauvais (15.4 / 100,000 inhab.), Compiègne (15.4 / 100,000 inhab.), Creil (15.4 / 100,000 inhab.), Nogent-sur-Oise (15.4 / 100,000 inhab.).
    Is this figure really about the city?
    No: it is measured for the whole département, and every commune of that département carries the same figure. It is ranked this way because speed cameras is not published commune by commune, and a per-commune count would be almost entirely zeros. Read each row as "this town's département", not "this town".

    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 (speed cameras), 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 départements with the fewest speed cameras and The French cities with the most private swimming pools, 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.