What are the 10 French cities ranked by median income?

In order: Roubaix, Denain, Saint-Benoît, Grigny, Clichy-sous-Bois, Le Port, La Courneuve, Creil, Saint-Joseph (974) and Saint-André.

What is the top 5 of French cities ranked by median income?

Roubaix (€16,080), Denain (€16,330), Saint-Benoît (€16,460), Grigny (€16,470) and Clichy-sous-Bois (€16,520).

Which city is 2nd in the ranking of French cities ranked by median income?

Denain, at €16,330, just behind Roubaix (€16,080).

Is Roubaix really the French city ranked last on median income?

Yes, at €16,080, ahead of Denain (€16,330) and Saint-Benoît (€16,460).

In which département is Roubaix?

Roubaix is in département 59, in the Hauts-de-France region.

What is the difference between Roubaix and Denain?

Roubaix is at €16,080, Denain at €16,330. 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?

1,067, with the top 50 listed in full in the table below.

What are the French cities ranked by median income in 2026?

This ranking uses the most recent official figures published as of 2026: Roubaix leads with €16,080.

Is there a complete ranking of French cities ranked by median income?

Yes, the table below: the top 50 of 1,067, each with its département and its region, and the exact method and scope stated underneath it.

In order: Roubaix (€16,080), Denain (€16,330), Saint-Benoît (€16,460), Grigny (€16,470), Clichy-sous-Bois (€16,520), Le Port (€16,710), La Courneuve (€16,820), Creil (€16,820), Saint-Joseph (974) (€16,870), Saint-André (€17,030).

Where does this figure come from?

Straight from INSEE-DGFiP-Cnaf-Cnav-CCMSA, Filosofi, 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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The poorest cities in France by median income

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The poorest city in France is Roubaix, at €16,080 (median income), ahead of Denain (€16,330) and Saint-Benoît (€16,460).

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Median income, 1050 cities shown. The coloured surface is a local average over 30,794 communes, 96.8% 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. 17 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-DGFiP-Cnaf-Cnav-CCMSA, Filosofi · 2023.

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Top 50 of 1,067 cities
Rank	City	Median income	Population	Region
1	59 Roubaix	€16,080	98,286	Hauts-de-France
2	59 Denain	€16,330	20,665	Hauts-de-France
3	974 Saint-Benoît	€16,460	38,604	La Réunion
4	91 Grigny	€16,470	26,842	Île-de-France
5	93 Clichy-sous-Bois	€16,520	29,354	Île-de-France
6	974 Le Port	€16,710	33,969	La Réunion
7	93 La Courneuve	€16,820	47,167	Île-de-France
8	60 Creil	€16,820	36,301	Hauts-de-France
9	974 Saint-Joseph (974)	€16,870	39,207	La Réunion
10	974 Saint-André	€17,030	58,885	La Réunion
11	93 Aubervilliers	€17,210	88,365	Île-de-France
12	974 Saint-Louis (974)	€17,320	54,941	La Réunion
13	95 Garges-lès-Gonesse	€17,320	41,791	Île-de-France
14	10 La Chapelle-Saint-Luc	€17,650	12,648	Grand Est
15	93 Stains	€17,670	41,388	Île-de-France
16	95 Villiers-le-Bel	€17,750	30,053	Île-de-France
17	59 Maubeuge	€17,930	28,767	Hauts-de-France
18	93 Bobigny	€18,050	56,927	Île-de-France
19	93 Saint-Denis (93)	€18,130	149,077	Île-de-France
20	95 Sarcelles	€18,180	59,173	Île-de-France
21	77 Montereau-Fault-Yonne	€18,230	22,279	Île-de-France
22	89 Vézelay	€18,240	476	Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
23	45 Montargis	€18,280	14,825	Centre-Val de Loire
24	59 Hautmont	€18,300	14,152	Hauts-de-France
25	34 Béziers	€18,390	81,545	Occitanie
26	93 Villetaneuse	€18,390	12,530	Île-de-France
27	59 Anzin	€18,450	13,183	Hauts-de-France
28	974 Le Tampon	€18,470	82,579	La Réunion
29	59 Fourmies	€18,550	11,449	Hauts-de-France
30	59 Grande-Synthe	€18,630	20,239	Hauts-de-France
31	69 Saint-Fons	€18,640	19,285	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
32	62 Lens	€18,660	32,920	Hauts-de-France
33	68 Mulhouse	€18,680	104,978	Grand Est
34	93 Le Bourget	€18,680	15,925	Île-de-France
35	69 Vaulx-en-Velin	€18,700	53,069	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
36	76 Elbeuf	€18,770	15,474	Normandie
37	27 Val-de-Reuil	€18,960	13,245	Normandie
38	69 Vénissieux	€18,980	65,502	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
39	45 Châlette-sur-Loing	€19,020	12,677	Centre-Val de Loire
40	59 Jeumont	€19,020	10,160	Hauts-de-France
41	94 Villeneuve-Saint-Georges	€19,030	36,221	Île-de-France
42	60 Noyon	€19,080	12,971	Hauts-de-France
43	93 Dugny	€19,090	11,700	Île-de-France
44	66 Perpignan	€19,110	121,616	Occitanie
45	974 Petite-Île	€19,110	13,067	La Réunion
46	62 Auchel	€19,120	10,051	Hauts-de-France
47	974 Bras-Panon	€19,160	13,012	La Réunion
48	60 Montataire	€19,240	14,257	Hauts-de-France
49	62 Bruay-la-Buissière	€19,260	21,424	Hauts-de-France
50	08 Sedan	€19,330	16,667	Grand Est

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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.

12 questions about this ranking

What are the 10 French cities ranked by median income?: In order: Roubaix, Denain, Saint-Benoît, Grigny, Clichy-sous-Bois, Le Port, La Courneuve, Creil, Saint-Joseph (974) and Saint-André.
What is the top 5 of French cities ranked by median income?: Roubaix (€16,080), Denain (€16,330), Saint-Benoît (€16,460), Grigny (€16,470) and Clichy-sous-Bois (€16,520).
Which city is 2nd in the ranking of French cities ranked by median income?: Denain, at €16,330, just behind Roubaix (€16,080).
Is Roubaix really the French city ranked last on median income?: Yes, at €16,080, ahead of Denain (€16,330) and Saint-Benoît (€16,460).
In which département is Roubaix?: Roubaix is in département 59, in the Hauts-de-France region.
What is the difference between Roubaix and Denain?: Roubaix is at €16,080, Denain at €16,330. 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 median income?: Saint-André, at €17,030.
How many French cities does this ranking compare?: 1,067, with the top 50 listed in full in the table below.
What are the French cities ranked by median income in 2026?: This ranking uses the most recent official figures published as of 2026: Roubaix leads with €16,080.
Is there a complete ranking of French cities ranked by median income?: Yes, the table below: the top 50 of 1,067, each with its département and its region, and the exact method and scope stated underneath it.
What are the top 10?: In order: Roubaix (€16,080), Denain (€16,330), Saint-Benoît (€16,460), Grigny (€16,470), Clichy-sous-Bois (€16,520), Le Port (€16,710), La Courneuve (€16,820), Creil (€16,820), Saint-Joseph (974) (€16,870), Saint-André (€17,030).
Where does this figure come from?: Straight from INSEE-DGFiP-Cnaf-Cnav-CCMSA, Filosofi, 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 1,067 cities in the dataset, each with its département, its region and the figure it is ranked on (median income), 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 with the most homeowners and The French cities with the most renters, 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.