What are the 10 French cities ranked by swimmers?

In order: Macouria, La Crau, Saint-Leu-la-Forêt, La Garenne-Colombes, Vélizy-Villacoublay, Andrésy, Orsay, Chassieu, Saint-Martin-de-Crau and Saint-Égrève.

What is the top 5 of French cities ranked by swimmers?

Macouria (98.3 / 1,000 inhab.), La Crau (90.6 / 1,000 inhab.), Saint-Leu-la-Forêt (37.4 / 1,000 inhab.), La Garenne-Colombes (34.5 / 1,000 inhab.) and Vélizy-Villacoublay (34.4 / 1,000 inhab.).

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

La Crau, at 90.6 / 1,000 inhab., just behind Macouria (98.3 / 1,000 inhab.).

Is Macouria really the French city ranked first on swimmers?

Yes, at 98.3 / 1,000 inhab., ahead of La Crau (90.6 / 1,000 inhab.) and Saint-Leu-la-Forêt (37.4 / 1,000 inhab.).

In which département is Macouria?

Macouria is in département 973, in the Guyane region.

What is the difference between Macouria and La Crau?

Macouria is at 98.3 / 1,000 inhab., La Crau at 90.6 / 1,000 inhab. 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 swimmers?

Saint-Égrève, at 27.4 / 1,000 inhab.

How many French cities does this ranking compare?

1,036, with the top 50 listed in full in the table below.

What are the French cities ranked by swimmers in 2026?

This ranking uses the most recent official figures published as of 2026: Macouria leads with 98.3 / 1,000 inhab.

Is there a complete ranking of French cities ranked by swimmers?

Yes, the table below: the top 50 of 1,036, each with its département and its region, and the exact method and scope stated underneath it.

In order: Macouria (98.3 / 1,000 inhab.), La Crau (90.6 / 1,000 inhab.), Saint-Leu-la-Forêt (37.4 / 1,000 inhab.), La Garenne-Colombes (34.5 / 1,000 inhab.), Vélizy-Villacoublay (34.4 / 1,000 inhab.), Andrésy (31.7 / 1,000 inhab.), Orsay (30.4 / 1,000 inhab.), Chassieu (29.2 / 1,000 inhab.), Saint-Martin-de-Crau (27.5 / 1,000 inhab.), Saint-Égrève (27.4 / 1,000 inhab.).

Where does this figure come from?

Straight from Ministère des Sports, recensement des licences sportives, 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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Macouria leads on swimmers, with 98.3 / 1,000 inhabitants, then La Crau (90.6 / 1,000 inhabitants) and Saint-Leu-la-Forêt (37.4 / 1,000 inhabitants).

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Swimmers, 987 cities shown. The coloured surface estimates the local tendency from nearby ranked cities. Exact city values remain in the table. 49 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: Ministère des Sports, recensement des licences sportives · 2023.

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Top 50 of 1,036 cities
Rank	City	Swimmers / 1,000 inhab.	Population	Region
1	973 Macouria	98.3	19,899	Guyane
2	83 La Crau	90.6	19,556	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
3	95 Saint-Leu-la-Forêt	37.4	16,138	Île-de-France
4	92 La Garenne-Colombes	34.5	30,197	Île-de-France
5	78 Vélizy-Villacoublay	34.4	23,011	Île-de-France
6	78 Andrésy	31.7	13,834	Île-de-France
7	91 Orsay	30.4	16,498	Île-de-France
8	69 Chassieu	29.2	11,208	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
9	13 Saint-Martin-de-Crau	27.5	14,145	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
10	38 Saint-Égrève	27.4	17,986	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
11	56 Pontivy	25.6	14,640	Bretagne
12	92 Vanves	24.6	28,622	Île-de-France
13	94 Villeneuve-le-Roi	24.6	21,000	Île-de-France
14	78 Guyancourt	24.4	29,778	Île-de-France
15	67 Obernai	23.3	12,587	Grand Est
16	94 Choisy-le-Roi	23	45,946	Île-de-France
17	95 Taverny	22.7	27,593	Île-de-France
18	83 Solliès-Pont	22.6	12,521	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
19	38 Sassenage	22.4	11,646	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
20	44 Carquefou	22.2	20,921	Pays de la Loire
21	94 Villejuif	21.2	60,183	Île-de-France
22	38 Le Pont-de-Claix	21.2	10,956	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
23	83 Hyères	20	55,858	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
24	13 Plan-de-Cuques	19.5	11,632	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
25	78 Marly-le-Roi	19.4	16,756	Île-de-France
26	67 Lingolsheim	19.3	20,826	Grand Est
27	69 Belleville-en-Beaujolais	19.3	14,016	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
28	95 Beaumont-sur-Oise	19.3	10,232	Île-de-France
29	78 Le Pecq	19.2	16,059	Île-de-France
30	974 Saint-Joseph (974)	18.7	39,207	La Réunion
31	84 Pertuis	18.6	19,548	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
32	30 Villeneuve-lès-Avignon	18.6	13,148	Occitanie
33	95 Osny	18.5	17,954	Île-de-France
34	26 Pierrelatte	18.4	13,756	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
35	91 Massy	18.3	51,729	Île-de-France
36	92 Clamart	18.2	58,576	Île-de-France
37	66 Canet-en-Roussillon	18.2	13,227	Occitanie
38	83 La Farlède	18.2	10,014	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
39	78 Versailles	17.7	84,095	Île-de-France
40	92 Garches	17.7	17,743	Île-de-France
41	60 Nogent-sur-Oise	17.5	21,907	Hauts-de-France
42	33 Andernos-les-Bains	17.4	12,710	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
43	94 Ormesson-sur-Marne	17.4	10,977	Île-de-France
44	69 Rillieux-la-Pape	17.2	31,389	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
45	07 Guilherand-Granges	17.2	11,235	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
46	27 Pont-Audemer	17.2	10,023	Normandie
47	95 Sarcelles	17	59,173	Île-de-France
48	31 Balma	17	17,772	Occitanie
49	81 Lavaur	17	10,965	Occitanie
50	04 Manosque	16.9	22,718	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur

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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 a rate per inhabitant, so it covers towns of 10,000 people or more only: in a village of a hundred, three licence holders would read as thirty per thousand and outrank a town with a professional club, so no rate is published below that size rather than a meaningless 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 swimmers?: In order: Macouria, La Crau, Saint-Leu-la-Forêt, La Garenne-Colombes, Vélizy-Villacoublay, Andrésy, Orsay, Chassieu, Saint-Martin-de-Crau and Saint-Égrève.
What is the top 5 of French cities ranked by swimmers?: Macouria (98.3 / 1,000 inhab.), La Crau (90.6 / 1,000 inhab.), Saint-Leu-la-Forêt (37.4 / 1,000 inhab.), La Garenne-Colombes (34.5 / 1,000 inhab.) and Vélizy-Villacoublay (34.4 / 1,000 inhab.).
Which city is 2nd in the ranking of French cities ranked by swimmers?: La Crau, at 90.6 / 1,000 inhab., just behind Macouria (98.3 / 1,000 inhab.).
Is Macouria really the French city ranked first on swimmers?: Yes, at 98.3 / 1,000 inhab., ahead of La Crau (90.6 / 1,000 inhab.) and Saint-Leu-la-Forêt (37.4 / 1,000 inhab.).
In which département is Macouria?: Macouria is in département 973, in the Guyane region.
What is the difference between Macouria and La Crau?: Macouria is at 98.3 / 1,000 inhab., La Crau at 90.6 / 1,000 inhab. 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 swimmers?: Saint-Égrève, at 27.4 / 1,000 inhab.
How many French cities does this ranking compare?: 1,036, with the top 50 listed in full in the table below.
What are the French cities ranked by swimmers in 2026?: This ranking uses the most recent official figures published as of 2026: Macouria leads with 98.3 / 1,000 inhab.
Is there a complete ranking of French cities ranked by swimmers?: Yes, the table below: the top 50 of 1,036, each with its département and its region, and the exact method and scope stated underneath it.
What are the top 10?: In order: Macouria (98.3 / 1,000 inhab.), La Crau (90.6 / 1,000 inhab.), Saint-Leu-la-Forêt (37.4 / 1,000 inhab.), La Garenne-Colombes (34.5 / 1,000 inhab.), Vélizy-Villacoublay (34.4 / 1,000 inhab.), Andrésy (31.7 / 1,000 inhab.), Orsay (30.4 / 1,000 inhab.), Chassieu (29.2 / 1,000 inhab.), Saint-Martin-de-Crau (27.5 / 1,000 inhab.), Saint-Égrève (27.4 / 1,000 inhab.).
Where does this figure come from?: Straight from Ministère des Sports, recensement des licences sportives, 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 1,036 cities in the dataset, each with its département, its region and the figure it is ranked on (swimmers), 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 Swimmers: the bottom 50 French cities and The French cities with the oldest population, 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.