La Garde Population and Area (Var)
Largest city in France 2026: up-to-date figures for La Garde (Var)
La Garde: Population and Area
With 26,772 inhabitants (INSEE total population in force on January 1, 2026), La Garde is the 342nd most populous town in France in 2026 and the 8th most populous in the Var department, out of 153 communes. It covers 16 km² (11,602nd largest area in France, 135th largest in the department), with a population density of 1,723 inhabitants per km², or 16 times the national average (110 inhabitants/km²), which ranks it 533rd in France for density.
La Garde is located in the Var department (83), in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region, where it ranks 31st 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: Draguignan (pop. 41,617), Saint-Raphaël (pop. 37,704), Six-Fours-les-Plages (pop. 37,643), La Valette-du-Var (pop. 23,950), La Crau (pop. 19,939), Sanary-sur-Mer (pop. 18,793).
Sources: INSEE, official population figures in force on January 1, 2026 (total population); areas: IGN / Observatoire des territoires; INSEE code 83062. Rankings are calculated across the 34,858 communes of metropolitan and overseas France in our database.