Agde Population and Area (Hérault)
Largest city in France 2026: up-to-date figures for Agde (Hérault)
Agde: Population and Area
With 30,340 inhabitants (INSEE total population in force on January 1, 2026), Agde is the 287th most populous town in France in 2026 and the 4th most populous in the Hérault department, out of 341 communes. It covers 51 km² (1,126th largest area in France, 12th largest in the department), with a population density of 597 inhabitants per km², or 5.5 times the national average (110 inhabitants/km²), which ranks it 1,565th in France for density.
Agde is located in the Hérault department (34), in the Occitanie region (formerly Languedoc-Roussillon), where it ranks 16th by population out of 4,446 communes. The most populous town in the Hérault department is Montpellier (313,712 inhabitants); the department is home to 1,248,501 people over 6,101 km².
See the full ranking of communes in the Hérault department and the regional ranking: largest city in Occitanie.
Towns of similar size in the Hérault department: Montpellier (pop. 313,712), Béziers (pop. 82,629), Sète (pop. 45,901), Lunel (pop. 26,923), Castelnau-le-Lez (pop. 26,449), Frontignan (pop. 24,383).
Sources: INSEE, official population figures in force on January 1, 2026 (total population); areas: IGN / Observatoire des territoires; INSEE code 34003. Rankings are calculated across the 34,858 communes of metropolitan and overseas France in our database.