Hazebrouck Population and Area (Nord)
Largest city in France 2026: up-to-date figures for Hazebrouck (Nord)
Hazebrouck Density
852 inhabitants/km²TOP #1120
Hazebrouck: Population and Area
With 22,331 inhabitants (INSEE total population in force on January 1, 2026), Hazebrouck is the 421st most populous town in France in 2026 and the 15th most populous in the Nord department, out of 647 communes. It covers 26 km² (5,078th largest area in France, 21st largest in the department), with a population density of 852 inhabitants per km², or 7.8 times the national average (110 inhabitants/km²), which ranks it 1,120th in France for density.
Hazebrouck is located in the Nord department (59), in the Hauts-de-France region (formerly Nord-Pas-de-Calais), where it ranks 30th by population out of 3,782 communes. The most populous town in the Nord department is Lille (240,109 inhabitants); the department is home to 2,645,946 people over 5,743 km².
See the full ranking of communes in the Nord department and the regional ranking: largest city in Hauts-de-France.
Towns of similar size in the Nord department: Lambersart (pop. 27,572), Armentières (pop. 27,382), Loos (pop. 22,850), La Madeleine (pop. 22,006), Mons-en-Barœul (pop. 21,244), Coudekerque-Branche (pop. 21,033).
Sources: INSEE, official population figures in force on January 1, 2026 (total population); areas: IGN / Observatoire des territoires; INSEE code 59295. Rankings are calculated across the 34,858 communes of metropolitan and overseas France in our database.