Plaisir Population and Area (Yvelines)
Largest city in France 2026: up-to-date figures for Plaisir (Yvelines)
Plaisir: Population and Area
With 32,147 inhabitants (INSEE total population in force on January 1, 2026), Plaisir is the 264th most populous town in France in 2026 and the 11th most populous in the Yvelines department, out of 259 communes. It covers 19 km² (8,928th largest area in France, 18th largest in the department), with a population density of 1,721 inhabitants per km², or 16 times the national average (110 inhabitants/km²), which ranks it 536th in France for density.
Plaisir is located in the Yvelines department (78), in the Île-de-France region, where it ranks 90th by population out of 1,266 communes. The most populous town in the Yvelines department is Versailles (85,750 inhabitants); the department is home to 1,508,510 people over 2,284 km².
See the full ranking of communes in the Yvelines department and the regional ranking: largest city in Île-de-France.
Towns of similar size in the Yvelines department: Trappes (pop. 34,788), Houilles (pop. 34,268), Montigny-le-Bretonneux (pop. 32,969), Le Chesnay-Rocquencourt (pop. 31,339), Chatou (pop. 31,112), Guyancourt (pop. 30,226).
Sources: INSEE, official population figures in force on January 1, 2026 (total population); areas: IGN / Observatoire des territoires; INSEE code 78490. Rankings are calculated across the 34,858 communes of metropolitan and overseas France in our database.