Alençon Population and Area (Orne)
Largest city in France 2026: up-to-date figures for Alençon (Orne)
Alençon: Population and Area
With 26,175 inhabitants (INSEE total population in force on January 1, 2026), Alençon is the 350th most populous town in France in 2026 and the most populous in the Orne department, out of 381 communes. It covers 11 km² (17,892nd largest area in France, 200th largest in the department), with a population density of 2,451 inhabitants per km², or 22 times the national average (110 inhabitants/km²), which ranks it 370th in France for density.
Alençon is located in the Orne department (61), in the Normandy region (formerly Lower Normandy), where it ranks 9th by population out of 2,644 communes. It is the most populous town in the Orne department, which is home to 282,417 people over 6,103 km².
See the full ranking of communes in the Orne department and the regional ranking: largest city in Normandy.
Towns of similar size in the Orne department: Flers (pop. 14,745), Argentan (pop. 13,939), L'Aigle (pop. 7,886).
Sources: INSEE, official population figures in force on January 1, 2026 (total population); areas: IGN / Observatoire des territoires; INSEE code 61001. Rankings are calculated across the 34,858 communes of metropolitan and overseas France in our database.