Population Characteristics

Population of Midi-Pyrenees (2005): 2,731,049 inhabitants

Population of metropolitan Toulouse (1999): 965,000 inhabitants
The population has doubled over the last 40 years

Population of the three largest regional urban zones (1999) :

• Toulouse: 741,120 (845,000 provisional data 2004)
• Tarbes: 76,699
• Albi: 65,320
• Castres-Mazamet:  69 172
• Montauban: 53 966
• Rodez: 38 458

A large urban center - Toulouse - concentrating nearly one third of the population, outlying Departments and about twenty small sized towns throughout Midi-Pyrenees; indeed the largest region in France covering 8.3% of the country’s surface area, but home to only 4.4% of the population.
Source INSEE: Temp 2006