Saint-Priest Population and Area (Rhône)
Largest city in France 2026: up-to-date figures for Saint-Priest (Rhône)
Saint-Priest: Population and Area
With 49,498 inhabitants (INSEE total population in force on January 1, 2026), Saint-Priest is the 137th most populous town in France in 2026 and the 5th most populous in the Rhône department, out of 266 communes. It covers 30 km² (3,990th largest area in France, 10th largest in the department), with a population density of 1,666 inhabitants per km², or 15 times the national average (110 inhabitants/km²), which ranks it 560th in France for density.
Saint-Priest is located in the Rhône department (69), in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region (formerly Rhône-Alpes), where it ranks 11th by population out of 4,025 communes. The most populous town in the Rhône department is Lyon (525,314 inhabitants); the department is home to 1,940,015 people over 3,249 km².
See the full ranking of communes in the Rhône department and the regional ranking: largest city in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.
Towns of similar size in the Rhône department: Villeurbanne (pop. 164,747), Vénissieux (pop. 65,689), Vaulx-en-Velin (pop. 53,281), Caluire-et-Cuire (pop. 44,139), Bron (pop. 43,369), Oullins-Pierre-Bénite (pop. 38,495).
Sources: INSEE, official population figures in force on January 1, 2026 (total population); areas: IGN / Observatoire des territoires; INSEE code 69290. Rankings are calculated across the 34,858 communes of metropolitan and overseas France in our database.