Échirolles Population and Area (Isère)
Largest city in France 2026: up-to-date figures for Échirolles (Isère)
Échirolles: Population and Area
With 37,710 inhabitants (INSEE total population in force on January 1, 2026), Échirolles is the 215th most populous town in France in 2026 and the 3rd most populous in the Isère department, out of 512 communes. It covers 7.86 km² (23,138th largest area in France, 374th largest in the department), with a population density of 4,798 inhabitants per km², or 44 times the national average (110 inhabitants/km²), which ranks it 150th in France for density.
Échirolles is located in the Isère department (38), in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region (formerly Rhône-Alpes), where it ranks 20th by population out of 4,025 communes. The most populous town in the Isère department is Grenoble (158,303 inhabitants); the department is home to 1,324,225 people over 7,431 km².
See the full ranking of communes in the Isère department and the regional ranking: largest city in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.
Towns of similar size in the Isère department: Grenoble (pop. 158,303), Saint-Martin-d'Hères (pop. 37,921), Vienne (pop. 32,216), Bourgoin-Jallieu (pop. 30,773), Voiron (pop. 22,415).
Sources: INSEE, official population figures in force on January 1, 2026 (total population); areas: IGN / Observatoire des territoires; INSEE code 38151. Rankings are calculated across the 34,858 communes of metropolitan and overseas France in our database.