Tarbes Population and Area (Hautes-Pyrénées)
Largest city in France 2026: up-to-date figures for Tarbes (Hautes-Pyrénées)
Tarbes: Population and Area
With 45,361 inhabitants (INSEE total population in force on January 1, 2026), Tarbes is the 164th most populous town in France in 2026 and the most populous in the Hautes-Pyrénées department, out of 469 communes. It covers 15 km² (11,783rd largest area in France, 54th largest in the department), with a population density of 2,959 inhabitants per km², or 27 times the national average (110 inhabitants/km²), which ranks it 295th in France for density.
Tarbes is located in the Hautes-Pyrénées department (65), in the Occitanie region (formerly Midi-Pyrénées), where it ranks 12th by population out of 4,446 communes. It is the most populous town in the Hautes-Pyrénées department, which is home to 237,032 people over 4,464 km².
See the full ranking of communes in the Hautes-Pyrénées department and the regional ranking: largest city in Occitanie.
Towns of similar size in the Hautes-Pyrénées department: Lourdes (pop. 13,520), Aureilhan (pop. 8,147), Bagnères-de-Bigorre (pop. 7,375).
Sources: INSEE, official population figures in force on January 1, 2026 (total population); areas: IGN / Observatoire des territoires; INSEE code 65440. Rankings are calculated across the 34,858 communes of metropolitan and overseas France in our database.