Bruz Population and Area (Ille-et-Vilaine)
Largest city in France 2026: up-to-date figures for Bruz (Ille-et-Vilaine)
Bruz: Population and Area
With 20,113 inhabitants (INSEE total population in force on January 1, 2026), Bruz is the 491st most populous town in France in 2026 and the 4th most populous in the Ille-et-Vilaine department, out of 332 communes. It covers 30 km² (3,919th largest area in France, 64th largest in the department), with a population density of 672 inhabitants per km², or 6.1 times the national average (110 inhabitants/km²), which ranks it 1,404th in France for density.
Bruz is located in the Ille-et-Vilaine department (35), in the Brittany region, where it ranks 12th by population out of 1,202 communes. The most populous town in the Ille-et-Vilaine department is Rennes (234,950 inhabitants); the department is home to 1,145,286 people over 6,775 km².
See the full ranking of communes in the Ille-et-Vilaine department and the regional ranking: largest city in Brittany.
Towns of similar size in the Ille-et-Vilaine department: Rennes (pop. 234,950), Saint-Malo (pop. 48,675), Fougères (pop. 20,946), Vitré (pop. 19,938), Cesson-Sévigné (pop. 19,263), Saint-Jacques-de-la-Lande (pop. 13,912).
Sources: INSEE, official population figures in force on January 1, 2026 (total population); areas: IGN / Observatoire des territoires; INSEE code 35047. Rankings are calculated across the 34,858 communes of metropolitan and overseas France in our database.