Vierzon Population and Area (Cher)
Largest city in France 2026: up-to-date figures for Vierzon (Cher)
Vierzon: Population and Area
With 25,527 inhabitants (INSEE total population in force on January 1, 2026), Vierzon is the 365th most populous town in France in 2026 and the 2nd most populous in the Cher department, out of 286 communes. It covers 75 km² (469th largest area in France, 6th largest in the department), with a population density of 343 inhabitants per km², or 3.1 times the national average (110 inhabitants/km²), which ranks it 2,626th in France for density.
Vierzon is located in the Cher department (18), in the Centre-Val de Loire region (formerly Centre), where it ranks 9th by population out of 1,754 communes. The most populous town in the Cher department is Bourges (66,155 inhabitants); the department is home to 305,233 people over 7,235 km².
See the full ranking of communes in the Cher department and the regional ranking: largest city in Centre-Val de Loire.
Towns of similar size in the Cher department: Bourges (pop. 66,155), Saint-Amand-Montrond (pop. 10,201), Saint-Doulchard (pop. 9,873), Saint-Florent-sur-Cher (pop. 6,556).
Sources: INSEE, official population figures in force on January 1, 2026 (total population); areas: IGN / Observatoire des territoires; INSEE code 18279. Rankings are calculated across the 34,858 communes of metropolitan and overseas France in our database.