Stains Population and Area (Seine-Saint-Denis)
Largest city in France 2026: up-to-date figures for Stains (Seine-Saint-Denis)
Stains: Population and Area
With 41,471 inhabitants (INSEE total population in force on January 1, 2026), Stains is the 192nd most populous town in France in 2026 and the 21st most populous in the Seine-Saint-Denis department, out of 39 communes. It covers 5.39 km² (28,730th largest area in France, 19th largest in the department), with a population density of 7,694 inhabitants per km², or 70 times the national average (110 inhabitants/km²), which ranks it 71st in France for density.
Stains is located in the Seine-Saint-Denis department (93), in the Île-de-France region, where it ranks 65th by population out of 1,266 communes. The most populous town in the Seine-Saint-Denis department is Saint-Denis (149,936 inhabitants); the department is home to 1,710,659 people over 236 km².
See the full ranking of communes in the Seine-Saint-Denis department and the regional ranking: largest city in Île-de-France.
Towns of similar size in the Seine-Saint-Denis department: Bagnolet (pop. 43,234), Gagny (pop. 42,524), Villepinte (pop. 41,579), Neuilly-sur-Marne (pop. 39,891), Tremblay-en-France (pop. 38,519), Romainville (pop. 37,224).
Sources: INSEE, official population figures in force on January 1, 2026 (total population); areas: IGN / Observatoire des territoires; INSEE code 93072. Rankings are calculated across the 34,858 communes of metropolitan and overseas France in our database.