Bron Population and Area (Rhône)
Largest city in France 2026: up-to-date figures for Bron (Rhône)
Bron: Population and Area
With 43,369 inhabitants (INSEE total population in force on January 1, 2026), Bron is the 181st most populous town in France in 2026 and the 7th most populous in the Rhône department, out of 266 communes. It covers 10 km² (18,531st largest area in France, 137th largest in the department), with a population density of 4,211 inhabitants per km², or 38 times the national average (110 inhabitants/km²), which ranks it 187th in France for density.
Bron is located in the Rhône department (69), in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region (formerly Rhône-Alpes), where it ranks 14th by population out of 4,025 communes. The most populous town in the Rhône department is Lyon (525,314 inhabitants); the department is home to 1,940,015 people over 3,249 km².
See the full ranking of communes in the Rhône department and the regional ranking: largest city in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.
Towns of similar size in the Rhône department: Vaulx-en-Velin (pop. 53,281), Saint-Priest (pop. 49,498), Caluire-et-Cuire (pop. 44,139), Oullins-Pierre-Bénite (pop. 38,495), Meyzieu (pop. 37,006), Villefranche-sur-Saône (pop. 36,563).
Sources: INSEE, official population figures in force on January 1, 2026 (total population); areas: IGN / Observatoire des territoires; INSEE code 69029. Rankings are calculated across the 34,858 communes of metropolitan and overseas France in our database.