Châteauroux Population and Area (Indre)
Largest city in France 2026: up-to-date figures for Châteauroux (Indre)
Châteauroux: Population and Area
With 44,536 inhabitants (INSEE total population in force on January 1, 2026), Châteauroux is the 168th most populous town in France in 2026 and the most populous in the Indre department, out of 241 communes. It covers 26 km² (5,327th largest area in France, 119th largest in the department), with a population density of 1,744 inhabitants per km², or 16 times the national average (110 inhabitants/km²), which ranks it 520th in France for density.
Châteauroux is located in the Indre department (36), in the Centre-Val de Loire region (formerly Centre), where it ranks 5th by population out of 1,754 communes. It is the most populous town in the Indre department, which is home to 221,574 people over 6,791 km².
See the full ranking of communes in the Indre department and the regional ranking: largest city in Centre-Val de Loire.
Towns of similar size in the Indre department: Issoudun (pop. 11,403), Déols (pop. 7,744), Le Blanc (pop. 6,401).
Sources: INSEE, official population figures in force on January 1, 2026 (total population); areas: IGN / Observatoire des territoires; INSEE code 36044. Rankings are calculated across the 34,858 communes of metropolitan and overseas France in our database.