Lisieux Population and Area (Calvados)
Largest city in France 2026: up-to-date figures for Lisieux (Calvados)
Lisieux: Population and Area
With 20,196 inhabitants (INSEE total population in force on January 1, 2026), Lisieux is the 489th most populous town in France in 2026 and the 3rd most populous in the Calvados department, out of 526 communes. It covers 13 km² (14,316th largest area in France, 63rd largest in the department), with a population density of 1,545 inhabitants per km², or 14 times the national average (110 inhabitants/km²), which ranks it 600th in France for density.
Lisieux is located in the Calvados department (14), in the Normandy region (formerly Lower Normandy), where it ranks 16th by population out of 2,644 communes. The most populous town in the Calvados department is Caen (111,546 inhabitants); the department is home to 722,979 people over 5,534 km².
See the full ranking of communes in the Calvados department and the regional ranking: largest city in Normandy.
Towns of similar size in the Calvados department: Caen (pop. 111,546), Hérouville-Saint-Clair (pop. 23,672), Vire Normandie (pop. 18,238), Bayeux (pop. 13,043), Ifs (pop. 12,166).
Sources: INSEE, official population figures in force on January 1, 2026 (total population); areas: IGN / Observatoire des territoires; INSEE code 14366. Rankings are calculated across the 34,858 communes of metropolitan and overseas France in our database.