Fréjus Population and Area (Var)
Largest city in France 2026: up-to-date figures for Fréjus (Var)
Fréjus: Population and Area
With 60,503 inhabitants (INSEE total population in force on January 1, 2026), Fréjus is the 98th most populous town in France in 2026 and the 3rd most populous in the Var department, out of 153 communes. It covers 102 km² (222nd largest area in France, 6th largest in the department), with a population density of 592 inhabitants per km², or 5.4 times the national average (110 inhabitants/km²), which ranks it 1,579th in France for density.
Fréjus is located in the Var department (83), in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region, where it ranks 9th by population out of 946 communes. The most populous town in the Var department is Toulon (180,774 inhabitants); the department is home to 1,135,585 people over 5,973 km².
See the full ranking of communes in the Var department and the regional ranking: largest city in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur.
Towns of similar size in the Var department: Toulon (pop. 180,774), La Seyne-sur-Mer (pop. 64,430), Hyères (pop. 56,763), Draguignan (pop. 41,617), Saint-Raphaël (pop. 37,704).
Sources: INSEE, official population figures in force on January 1, 2026 (total population); areas: IGN / Observatoire des territoires; INSEE code 83061. Rankings are calculated across the 34,858 communes of metropolitan and overseas France in our database.
Fréjus, a large town with a vast territory
The third most populous town in the Var department, behind Toulon and La Seyne-sur-Mer, Fréjus is one of the oldest cities in Provence: founded under the name Forum Julii, it was a Roman naval port, as its amphitheater, the remains of its aqueduct and its medieval episcopal complex still show.
Between the Estérel, the Argens and the Mediterranean
The territory of Fréjus, unusually large for a coastal town, stretches from the Argens plain to the Estérel massif, which explains its low density despite a sizable population. The town was hit hard in 1959 by the failure of the Malpasset dam, one of the worst civilian disasters in postwar France. Since then, beach tourism, with Fréjus-Plage and Port-Fréjus, and the arrival of retirees and families drawn by the climate have driven steady population growth. Fréjus and Saint-Raphaël form a single continuous urban area.