Chelles Population and Area (Seine-et-Marne)
Largest city in France 2026: up-to-date figures for Chelles (Seine-et-Marne)
Chelles: Population and Area
With 54,900 inhabitants (INSEE total population in force on January 1, 2026), Chelles is the 115th most populous town in France in 2026 and the 2nd most populous in the Seine-et-Marne department, out of 507 communes. It covers 16 km² (11,245th largest area in France, 105th largest in the department), with a population density of 3,453 inhabitants per km², or 32 times the national average (110 inhabitants/km²), which ranks it 239th in France for density.
Chelles is located in the Seine-et-Marne department (77), in the Île-de-France region, where it ranks 36th by population out of 1,266 communes. The most populous town in the Seine-et-Marne department is Meaux (57,360 inhabitants); the department is home to 1,484,180 people over 5,915 km².
See the full ranking of communes in the Seine-et-Marne department and the regional ranking: largest city in Île-de-France.
Towns of similar size in the Seine-et-Marne department: Meaux (pop. 57,360), Melun (pop. 46,211), Pontault-Combault (pop. 39,332), Savigny-le-Temple (pop. 31,431).
Sources: INSEE, official population figures in force on January 1, 2026 (total population); areas: IGN / Observatoire des territoires; INSEE code 77108. Rankings are calculated across the 34,858 communes of metropolitan and overseas France in our database.