Illkirch-Graffenstaden Population and Area (Bas-Rhin)
Largest city in France 2026: up-to-date figures for Illkirch-Graffenstaden (Bas-Rhin)
Illkirch-Graffenstaden Density
1,276 inhabitants/km²TOP #749
Illkirch-Graffenstaden: Population and Area
With 28,336 inhabitants (INSEE total population in force on January 1, 2026), Illkirch-Graffenstaden is the 313th most populous town in France in 2026 and the 4th most populous in the Bas-Rhin department, out of 514 communes. It covers 22 km² (6,806th largest area in France, 29th largest in the department), with a population density of 1,276 inhabitants per km², or 12 times the national average (110 inhabitants/km²), which ranks it 749th in France for density.
Illkirch-Graffenstaden is located in the Bas-Rhin department (67), in the Grand Est region (formerly Alsace), where it ranks 15th by population out of 5,115 communes. The most populous town in the Bas-Rhin department is Strasbourg (296,552 inhabitants); the department is home to 1,178,940 people over 4,755 km².
See the full ranking of communes in the Bas-Rhin department and the regional ranking: largest city in Grand Est.
Towns of similar size in the Bas-Rhin department: Strasbourg (pop. 296,552), Haguenau (pop. 36,899), Schiltigheim (pop. 34,922), Lingolsheim (pop. 20,987), Sélestat (pop. 19,813), Bischheim (pop. 18,797).
Sources: INSEE, official population figures in force on January 1, 2026 (total population); areas: IGN / Observatoire des territoires; INSEE code 67218. Rankings are calculated across the 34,858 communes of metropolitan and overseas France in our database.