Sens Population and Area (Yonne)
Largest city in France 2026: up-to-date figures for Sens (Yonne)
Sens: Population and Area
With 27,600 inhabitants (INSEE total population in force on January 1, 2026), Sens is the 324th most populous town in France in 2026 and the 2nd most populous in the Yonne department, out of 423 communes. It covers 22 km² (6,967th largest area in France, 112th largest in the department), with a population density of 1,260 inhabitants per km², or 12 times the national average (110 inhabitants/km²), which ranks it 759th in France for density.
Sens is located in the Yonne department (89), in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region (formerly Burgundy), where it ranks 8th by population out of 3,685 communes. The most populous town in the Yonne department is Auxerre (36,245 inhabitants); the department is home to 340,359 people over 7,427 km².
See the full ranking of communes in the Yonne department and the regional ranking: largest city in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté.
Towns of similar size in the Yonne department: Auxerre (pop. 36,245), Joigny (pop. 9,306), Migennes (pop. 6,765), Avallon (pop. 6,465).
Sources: INSEE, official population figures in force on January 1, 2026 (total population); areas: IGN / Observatoire des territoires; INSEE code 89387. Rankings are calculated across the 34,858 communes of metropolitan and overseas France in our database.