Its INSEE code is 342 and its capital city is Lodève.

The communes of the arrondissement of Lodève are (with their INSEE codes):[2] The arrondissement of Lodève was created in 1800, disbanded in 1926 and restored in 1942.

[5] In 2009 it absorbed the three cantons of Aniane, Ganges and Saint-Martin-de-Londres from the arrondissement of Montpellier.

[7] As a result of the reorganisation of the cantons of France which came into effect in 2015, the borders of the cantons are no longer related to the borders of the arrondissements.

The cantons of the arrondissement of Lodève were, as of January 2015:[8]