Living in Alès

In Alès, rents across existing tenancies average €8.90 per m² a month (2025) and unemployment is 23.6% (2022).

Alès had 46,125 residents at the start of 2023 and is a city in France. The unemployment rate was 23.6% at the end of 2022. For Alès, the foreign population count was 3,704 in 2021. Gigabit broadband availability was 94% in March 2026.

Last checked 2026-09-2424 sources

Population46,125people1 Jan 2023Official source · INSEE populations légales 2023 par commune

Median gross salary (region)2,575EUR/month31 Dec 2022Official source · www.insee.fr

Average net rent8.9EUR/m²/monthcountry median €11.60 — 23% belowOfficial source · www.observatoires-des-loyers.org

Unemployment rate23.58%country median 11.0% — 115% aboveOfficial source · INSEE RP2022 ACT1 — population active by type of activity, commune

Recorded crime6,486incidents per 100,000country median 4,740 — 37% aboveOfficial source · Base statistique communale de la délinquance enregistrée par la police et la gendarmerie nationales, 2025 (géographie 2026)

PM2.5, annual mean8µg/m³country median 8.5 — 6% belowOfficial source · European Environment Agency

Cheaper rent than 85% of French cities that publish it, higher unemployment than any other French city that publishes it and more recorded crime than 81% of French cities that publish it.

Which France-wide rules apply when you move to Alès?

National rules stay on the country page instead of being relabelled as city data.

Visa and entry rulesPassport-specific entry and national residence context.BenefitsCountry-wide eligibility and official application routes.Taxes in FranceNational rates and thresholds that apply in Alès.Healthcare eligibilityCountry-wide insurance and residence conditions.

Housing and cost

How much does it cost to rent in Alès?

Average net cold rent is 8.9 EUR/m² per month (2025), excluding heating and operating charges.

Published average over existing tenancies; a specific flat can sit either side of it. Asking-rent series, where present, are separate rows in the table.

Average net rent (nettokalt): 8.9 EUR/m²/month · www.observatoires-des-loyers.org²²

What recurs every month2 published recurring costs, € per month

€ / month

Internet, 60 Mbps€43

Mobile plan, 10 GB€20

Net rent across major citiesAlès highlighted among comparable cities

net rent, € / m² / month

Paris€26.30

Nice€20.43

Lyon€16.57

Marseille€16.30

Toulouse€13.98

Alès€8.90

Show the other 6 cities

Bordeaux€15.99

Lille€15.76

Strasbourg€15.57

Montpellier€15.49

Rennes€14.87

Nantes€14.50

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Internet, 60 Mbps unlimited	42.99 EUR/month	30 Sept 2026	Orange Livebox Fibre¹⁸Official · national market
Mobile plan, 10 GB	19.99 EUR/month	30 Sept 2026	Orange 100GB mobile plan¹⁷Official · national market
Housing vacancy rate (legacy series)	1,756 %	31 Dec 2023	INSEE⁶Official
Dwellings	25,934 dwellings	31 Dec 2023	INSEE⁷Official
Main residence dwellings	23,886 dwellings	31 Dec 2023	INSEE⁷Official
Average net rent (nettokalt)	8.9 EUR/m²/monthcountry median €11.60	31 Dec 2025	www.observatoires-des-loyers.org²²Official

Is Alès a good place to live?

There is no universal answer. The profile scores below show who the available published evidence may suit; they are a decision aid, not a personal recommendation.

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Remote worker47%strong on work, weak on safety · range 39–55%

Skilled employee58%strong on work, weak on safety · range 50–66%

Student61%strong on education, weak on work · range 54–68%

Family54%strong on family, weak on cost · range 47–61%

Retirement51%strong on air quality, weak on admin · range 42–60%

Worked out from these numbers

What does a 60 m² flat cost?

About 534 EUR a month in cold rent at the published average of 8.9 EUR/m² per month, before heating and operating charges.

Heating, water and operating charges come on top, and a specific flat can sit either side of an average.

Source period: 2025

Work and income

What is the unemployment rate in Alès?

The unemployment rate is about 23.6 % (2022).

Unemployment rate: 23.58 % · INSEE RP2022 ACT1 — population active by type of activity, commune¹⁰

Unemployment across cities in FranceUnemployment in Alès is 23.6%. Of 2,240 cities with data, 898 have unemployment of 5 to under 10%.

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Alès 23.6%

Unemployment rate (%)

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Fibre-to-the-building availability	93.95 %	3 Aug 2026	Arcep (Autorité de régulation des communications électroniques, des postes et de la distribution de la presse)¹Official
Gigabit broadband availability	93.95 %	31 Mar 2026	Independent ARCEP municipal count of premises eligible for the >=1 Gbit/s fixed advertised-speed class, divided by the ARCEP type=all municipal premises denominator. This is availability/eligibility, not adoption, measured speed, FTTH-only coverage or mobile coverage.⁵Official
Median gross salary (regional)	2,575 EUR/month	31 Dec 2022	www.insee.fr²¹Official
Unemployment rate	23.58 %country median 11.0%	31 Dec 2022	INSEE RP2022 ACT1 — population active by type of activity, commune¹⁰Official

What does a salary buy in Alès?

Take-home pay after tax, minus rent and the everyday bills this city publishes. Each line names its source.

Left over each month€1,364of €1,961 take-home

Rent
Internet
Mobile
Left over

Line-by-line breakdown and sources

Each month	€
Take-home payOECD Taxing Wages 2025, single, no children. Includes central and local income tax and employee social contributions.	€1,961
Rent, 60 m²€8.90/m² · official · observatoires-des-loyers.org · 2025-12-31	− €534
Internet€43 · official · Orange Livebox Fibre · 2026-09-30	− €43
Mobile plan€20 · official · Orange 100GB mobile plan · 2026-09-30	− €20
Other everyday billsnot published for this city: public transport pass, utilities	—
Left overbefore the bills this city does not publish	€1,364

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Public employment service

No exact public employment office is currently linked to Alès. The verified national service may still offer online registration, job search or an official office finder.

Country-level information

France Travail — Public employment service

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Country-level service information is not treated as proof of a physical office in Alès. Sources checked through 10 Aug 2026.

Family and education

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Primary schools	27 count	3 Aug 2026	Ministère de l'Éducation nationale (data.education.gouv.fr)¹²Official
Schools	52 count	3 Aug 2026	Ministère de l'Éducation nationale (data.education.gouv.fr)¹²Official

School for children who move here. School is compulsory from age 3 to 16. Newly arrived pupils get support in the school language: UPE2A (unités pédagogiques pour élèves allophones nouvellement arrivés) + UPE2A-NSA variant. How to enrol a child (education.gouv.fr).

A country-wide rule for France; Alès's school authority applies it locally.

Sources: eurydice.eacea.ec.europa.eu · 2025–2026.

Healthcare

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Hospital beds per 100,000 residents	1,243 beds per 100,000	31 Dec 2011	DREES / DGOS – Statistique Annuelle des Établissements de Santé (SAE) 2011³Official

Yes — migrants can receive medical care in Alès when the national insurance or residence conditions are met.

Healthcare access follows the country-wide insurance rules; local capacity facts remain city data and are not used as proof of eligibility.

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Hospital beds per 100,000 residents1,243 beds per 100,000Verified 2026-08-03

Country rule verified 2026-08-03.

Safety

How safe is Alès?

Police recorded about 6,486 incidents per 100,000 (2025). This counts all offences, so it is not comparable with a violent-crime-only rate from another source. Source: Base statistique communale de la délinquance enregistrée par la police et la gendarmerie nationales, 2025 (géographie 2026)²

Recorded crime across major citiesAlès highlighted among comparable cities

recorded incidents per 100k residents

Lille13,488

Lyon13,026

Bordeaux12,429

Marseille11,857

Paris10,987

Montpellier9,636

Toulouse8,875

Rennes8,241

Strasbourg7,791

Nantes7,704

Nice7,577

Alès6,486

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Recorded incidents per 100,000 residents	6,486 incidents per 100,000country median 4,740	31 Dec 2025	Base statistique communale de la délinquance enregistrée par la police et la gendarmerie nationales, 2025 (géographie 2026)²Official

Mobility and administration

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Destinations from nearest airport	4 count	3 Aug 2026	OpenFlights¹⁶Official
Nearest airport	FNI	3 Aug 2026	OurAirports¹⁹Official
Distance to nearest airport	49 km	3 Aug 2026	OurAirports¹⁹Official

Language courses and integration

No exact city-level course record is currently published for Alès. These verified national programmes may still apply; use the official programme page to check local availability.

Country-level information

Contrat d’intégration républicaine (CIR) — Integration course

État français and OFII

For eligible non-EU foreign residents.

FrenchIn Person

Open official information

DIAN language-training offer finder — Other

Réseau des Carif-Oref and DIAN

For people seeking French-language training.

FrenchIn Person, Online

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National programme information is not treated as proof of a course location in Alès.

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Climate and air quality

Is the air quality good in Alès?

The annual PM2.5 mean is 8 µg/m³ (2024) — above the WHO 2021 guideline of 5 µg/m³ but within the EU limit of 25 µg/m³. Source: European Environment Agency⁴

Annual mean at the measuring site(s) serving the city; current-day readings differ.

Air quality vs health guidelinesAnnual means against WHO 2021 guidelines and EU legal limits

Within WHO 2021 guidelineAbove WHO, within EU limitAbove EU legal limitCity annual mean · µg/m³

PM2.58WHO 5 · EU 25

City values from the published air-quality observations. WHO 2021 guidelines and EU limit values are published constants.

PM2.5 across cities in FranceAnnual PM2.5 in Alès is 8.0 µg/m³. Of 1,975 cities with data, 626 have annual PM2.5 of 8 to under 9 µg/m³.

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Alès 8.0

Annual PM2.5 (µg/m³)

Metric	Value	Period	Source
PM2.5 — annual mean	8 µg/m³country median 8.5	31 Dec 2024	European Environment Agency⁴Official
Monthly extreme high temperature	Jan 18.01 · Feb 20.37 · Mar 23.75 · Apr 28.94 · May 33.3 · Jun 43.22 · Jul 39.72 · Aug 42.74 · Sep 37.49 · Oct 31.34 · Nov 21.9 · Dec 16.93 °C	31 Dec 2001	NASA POWER / NASA Langley Research Center¹⁴Official
Monthly extreme low temperature	Jan -9.17 · Feb -11.28 · Mar -7.78 · Apr -0.95 · May 3.03 · Jun 7.68 · Jul 11.03 · Aug 11.22 · Sep 5.23 · Oct -1.07 · Nov -4.23 · Dec -8.27 °C	31 Dec 2001	NASA POWER / NASA Langley Research Center¹⁴Official
Average temperature by month	Jan 4.42 · Feb 5.14 · Mar 8.75 · Apr 12.5 · May 16.65 · Jun 21.95 · Jul 25.05 · Aug 24.39 · Sep 19.56 · Oct 14.73 · Nov 8.99 · Dec 5.1 °C	31 Dec 2001	NASA POWER / NASA Langley Research Center¹⁴Official

Annual PM2.5 over time12 published observations, 2013–2024

7.5

9.8

12.2

14.5

8.020132015201720212024

Annual PM2.5 fell 42.9% between 2013 and 2024, from 14.0 to 8.0.

Population and city profile

How many people live in Alès?

The published population was 46,125 people in January 2023. Source: INSEE populations légales 2023 par commune⁹

Who lives hereResidents by nationality, % of population

By nationality

National passport92%

Calculated from the population and foreign-resident facts on this page.

Metric	Value	Period	Source
City area	23.16 km²	31 Dec 2026	Séries historiques en 2023 — Recensement de la population, base des principaux indicateurs, communes de France hors Mayotte²⁰Official
Foreign residents	3,704 people	2021	Nationalité en 2021 — Base des tableaux détaillés — NAT1¹⁵Official
Population density	1,992 people/km²	31 Dec 2023	Séries historiques en 2023 — Recensement de la population, base des principaux indicateurs, communes de France hors Mayotte²⁰Official
Population	46,125 people	1 Jan 2023	INSEE populations légales 2023 par commune⁹Official

International community in Alès

Named groups from exact city-grain official distributions. Citizenship, birthplace, language and ancestry answer different questions and stay separate.

Citizenship

Population resident in France excluding Mayotte; INSEE RP2023 NAT; total age and sex · 2023 Census

Published group	People	Share
Total	46,125	100.0%
Français	42,281.906	91.7%
Etranger	3,843.094	8.3%

Largest published groups; zero-count groups are omitted. Dimensions are source-native and are never merged. Official source¹¹

Additional context

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Universities	0 count	3 Aug 2026	Ministère de l'Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche (data.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr)¹³Official

Alternatives for people set on Alès

Three places for the three reasons people leave a city on the shortlist: stay in the region, stay in the country, or keep the budget and change the country. A percentage appears only where both cities publish that metric from the same source, period and grain. Distances are straight lines — travel times are not collected yet.

Saint-Privat-des-Vieux as an Alès alternative in the same region

4 km away, better on 3 of 5 metrics measured the same way, worse on 0.

Recorded crime, per 100k: 2,665 Saint-Privat-des-Vieux vs 6,486 Alès−59%
Unemployment: 11.3% Saint-Privat-des-Vieux vs 23.6% Alès−52%
Residents: 5,703 Saint-Privat-des-Vieux vs 46,125 Alès−88%
Rent: €8.10/m² Saint-Privat-des-Vieux vs €8.90/m² Alès−9%
Median gross pay, region: €2,575 Saint-Privat-des-Vieux vs €2,575 Alèssame level

Full comparison More about Saint-Privat-des-Vieux

Sartrouville as an Alès alternative in the same country

A move, not a commute, at 555 km, better on 4 of 5 metrics measured the same way, worse on 0. Rent cannot be compared like for like.

Unemployment: 10.5% Sartrouville vs 23.6% Alès−56%
Median gross pay, region: €3,317 Sartrouville vs €2,575 Alès+29%
Rent: €20.51/m² Sartrouville vs €8.90/m² Alèsno percentage
Recorded crime, per 100k: 4,581 Sartrouville vs 6,486 Alès−29%
Nearest airport: 18.0 km Sartrouville vs 49.0 km Alès−63%
Residents: 52,763 Sartrouville vs 46,125 Alès+14%

Full comparison More about Sartrouville

Cities near Alès

Published cities within 25 km, nearest first. Distances are straight-line.

Saint-Privat-des-Vieux 4.3 km away

Rent: 8.1 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2025-12-31

Alternative cities in France

Other cities in France to compare with Alès, nearest in population first.

All France cities

Carcassonne46,080 residents Melun45,995 residents Choisy-le-Roi45,946 residents Saint-Germain-en-Laye45,931 residents Montrouge46,324 residents Meudon46,334 residents

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Alès in rankings

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Common questions

Answered from the published values on this page, each with its source and date.

How many people live in Alès?

The published population was 46,125 people in January 2023. Source: INSEE populations légales 2023 par commune.

How much does it cost to rent in Alès?

Average net cold rent is 8.9 EUR/m² per month (2025), excluding heating and operating charges. For a 70 m² flat that is about 623 EUR a month before utilities. Source: www.observatoires-des-loyers.org.

Is the air quality good in Alès?

The annual PM2.5 mean is 8 µg/m³ (2024) — above the WHO 2021 guideline of 5 µg/m³ but within the EU limit of 25 µg/m³. Source: European Environment Agency.

How safe is Alès?

What is the unemployment rate in Alès?

The unemployment rate is about 23.6 % (2022). Source: INSEE RP2022 ACT1 — population active by type of activity, commune.

What is the typical salary around Alès?

The median gross salary is 2,575 EUR/month. Source: www.insee.fr.

Is Alès a good place to live?

Alès may suit different people for different reasons. The page's profile scores compare published cost, work, housing, safety, healthcare and other available factors; they are a decision aid, not a universal recommendation.

Which cities are near Alès?

Saint-Privat-des-Vieux is near Alès. Typed relationship labels are shown where published; other rows use straight-line distance from admitted coordinates.

How many people are in the Français citizenship group in Alès?

The official citizenship distribution records 42,281.906 people (91.7%) in the source-defined population for 2023 Census. This is a citizenship measure, not a general estimate of ethnicity or migration status.

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  title = {Alès, France: population, rent, salary, cost of living, jobs},
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