Alès Population and Area (Gard)
Largest city in France 2026: up-to-date figures for Alès (Gard)
Alès: Population and Area
With 46,632 inhabitants (INSEE total population in force on January 1, 2026), Alès is the 154th most populous town in France in 2026 and the 2nd most populous in the Gard department, out of 350 communes. It covers 23 km² (6,348th largest area in France, 64th largest in the department), with a population density of 2,013 inhabitants per km², or 18 times the national average (110 inhabitants/km²), which ranks it 449th in France for density.
Alès is located in the Gard department (30), in the Occitanie region (formerly Languedoc-Roussillon), where it ranks 10th by population out of 4,446 communes. The most populous town in the Gard department is Nîmes (154,017 inhabitants); the department is home to 784,471 people over 5,853 km².
See the full ranking of communes in the Gard department and the regional ranking: largest city in Occitanie.
Towns of similar size in the Gard department: Nîmes (pop. 154,017), Bagnols-sur-Cèze (pop. 18,409), Beaucaire (pop. 15,883), Saint-Gilles (pop. 14,859).
Sources: INSEE, official population figures in force on January 1, 2026 (total population); areas: IGN / Observatoire des territoires; INSEE code 30007. Rankings are calculated across the 34,858 communes of metropolitan and overseas France in our database.