Carcassonne Population and Area (Aude)
Largest city in France 2026: up-to-date figures for Carcassonne (Aude)
Carcassonne: Population and Area
With 47,153 inhabitants (INSEE total population in force on January 1, 2026), Carcassonne is the 151st most populous town in France in 2026 and the 2nd most populous in the Aude department, out of 433 communes. It covers 65 km² (645th largest area in France, 2nd largest in the department), with a population density of 725 inhabitants per km², or 6.6 times the national average (110 inhabitants/km²), which ranks it 1,299th in France for density.
Carcassonne is located in the Aude department (11), in the Occitanie region (formerly Languedoc-Roussillon), where it ranks 9th by population out of 4,446 communes. The most populous town in the Aude department is Narbonne (58,669 inhabitants); the department is home to 387,874 people over 6,139 km².
See the full ranking of communes in the Aude department and the regional ranking: largest city in Occitanie.
Towns of similar size in the Aude department: Narbonne (pop. 58,669), Castelnaudary (pop. 12,700), Limoux (pop. 10,876), Lézignan-Corbières (pop. 10,584).
Sources: INSEE, official population figures in force on January 1, 2026 (total population); areas: IGN / Observatoire des territoires; INSEE code 11069. Rankings are calculated across the 34,858 communes of metropolitan and overseas France in our database.