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Living in Arès

In Arès, advertised rents for new lettings average €13.91 per m² a month (2025) and unemployment is 11.1% (2022).

The unemployment rate was 11.1% at the end of 2022. Arès is in France; its population was 6,482 at the start of 2023. In 2024, annual NO₂ was 1.94 µg/m³. The city had 2 schools in 2026. There were 92.6 physicians per 100,000 residents in 2024. The foreign population count was 158 in 2021.

Last checked 2026-09-2434 sources

Population6,482people1 Jan 2023Official source · INSEE populations légales 2023 par commune
Median gross salary (region)2,550EUR/month31 Dec 2022Official source · www.insee.fr
Average net rent13.91EUR/m²/monthcountry median €11.60 — 20% aboveOfficial source · static.data.gouv.fr
Unemployment rate11.1%country median 11.0% — about the sameOfficial source · INSEE RP2022 ACT1 — population active by type of activity, commune
Recorded crime3,180incidents per 100,000country median 4,740 — 33% belowOfficial source · Base statistique communale de la délinquance enregistrée par la police et la gendarmerie nationales, 2025 (géographie 2026)

Pricier rent than 73% of French cities that publish it and less recorded crime than 85% of French cities that publish it.

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

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 Arès.Healthcare eligibilityCountry-wide insurance and residence conditions.

Housing and cost

How much does it cost to rent in Arès?

Average net cold rent is 13.91 EUR/m² per month (2025-Q3), 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): 13.91 EUR/m²/month · static.data.gouv.fr23
What recurs every month2 published recurring costs, € per month
Arès recurring monthly costs, € per month

€ / month

Internet, 60 Mbps€43
Mobile plan, 10 GB€20
Net rent across major citiesArès highlighted among comparable cities
Net rent across major cities with Arès highlighted

net rent, € / m² / month

Paris€26.30
Nice€20.43
Lyon€16.57
Marseille€16.30
Toulouse€13.98
Arès€13.91
Show the other 6 cities
Bordeaux€15.99
Lille€15.76
Strasbourg€15.57
Montpellier€15.49
Rennes€14.87
Nantes€14.50
MetricValuePeriodSource
Internet, 60 Mbps unlimited42.99 EUR/month30 Sept 2026Orange Livebox Fibre19Official · national market
Mobile plan, 10 GB19.99 EUR/month30 Sept 2026Orange 100GB mobile plan18Official · national market
Housing vacancy rate (legacy series)221.4 %31 Dec 2023INSEE7Official
Dwellings5,193 dwellings31 Dec 2023INSEE8Official
Main residence dwellings3,349 dwellings31 Dec 2023INSEE8Official
Average net rent (nettokalt)13.91 EUR/m²/monthcountry median €11.6031 Dec 2025static.data.gouv.fr23Official

Is Arès 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 worker53%strong on work, weak on housing · range 45–61%
Skilled employee52%strong on work, weak on housing · range 44–60%
Student28%strong on cost, weak on housing · range 21–35%
Family45%strong on safety, weak on cost · range 38–52%
Retirement62%strong on air quality, weak on admin · range 53–71%

Worked out from these numbers

What does a 60 m² flat cost?

About 835 EUR a month in cold rent at the published average of 13.91 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-Q3

Work and income

What is the unemployment rate in Arès?

The unemployment rate is about 11.1 % (2022). Source: INSEE RP2022 ACT1 — population active by type of activity, commune11

Unemployment across cities in FranceUnemployment in Arès is 11.1%. Of 2,240 cities with data, 898 have unemployment of 5 to under 10%.

Unemployment rate (%)

MetricValuePeriodSource
Fibre-to-the-building availability96.71 %3 Aug 2026Arcep (Autorité de régulation des communications électroniques, des postes et de la distribution de la presse)2Official
Gigabit broadband availability96.71 %31 Mar 2026Independent 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.6Official
Median gross salary (regional)2,550 EUR/month31 Dec 2022www.insee.fr25Official
Unemployment rate11.1 %country median 11.0% — about the same31 Dec 2022INSEE RP2022 ACT1 — population active by type of activity, commune11Official

What does a salary buy in Arès?

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

regional median gross pay: €2,550 (insee.fr, 2022-12-31).
Left over each month€1,049of €1,947 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.€1,947
Rent, 60 m²€13.91/m² · official · static.data.gouv.fr · 2025-12-31− €835
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€1,049
Take-home pay for other salaries and households Compare with another city Check a job offer in Arès Salary needed to live in Arès

Public employment service

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

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

Family and education

MetricValuePeriodSource
Schools2 schools27 May 2026RNEE exact Code_commune; etat=OUVERT; code_nature 100-199 or 300-399; unique UAI count.21Official · commune
Primary schools2 count3 Aug 2026Ministère de l'Éducation nationale (data.education.gouv.fr)13Official
Schools2 count3 Aug 2026Ministère de l'Éducation nationale (data.education.gouv.fr)13Official

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; Arès's school authority applies it locally.

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

Healthcare

MetricValuePeriodSource
Primary care doctors per 100,000 residents92.56 per 100,000 people31 Dec 2024INSEE BPE 2024 commune equipment and PMUN denominator evidence9Official
Hospital beds per 100,000 residents2,539 beds per 100,00031 Dec 2011DREES / DGOS – Statistique Annuelle des Établissements de Santé (SAE) 20114Official

Yes — migrants can receive medical care in Arès 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 residents2,539 beds per 100,000Verified 2026-08-03
Country rule verified 2026-08-03.

Safety

How safe is Arès?

Police recorded about 3,180 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)3

Recorded crime across major citiesArès highlighted among comparable cities
Recorded crime across major cities with Arès highlighted

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
Arès3,180
MetricValuePeriodSource
Recorded incidents per 100,000 residents3,180 incidents per 100,000country median 4,74031 Dec 2025Base statistique communale de la délinquance enregistrée par la police et la gendarmerie nationales, 2025 (géographie 2026)3Official

Mobility and administration

MetricValuePeriodSource
Destinations from nearest airport49 count3 Aug 2026OpenFlights17Official
Nearest airportBOD3 Aug 2026OurAirports20Official
Distance to nearest airport34 km3 Aug 2026OurAirports20Official

Language courses and integration

No exact city-level course record is currently published for Arès. 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 Arès.

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Climate and air quality

Rainfall through the yearAverage monthly precipitation, mm
Air quality vs health guidelinesAnnual means against WHO 2021 guidelines and EU legal limits

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

NO₂ across cities in FranceWhere Arès lands among 1911 measured cities

annual NO₂, µg/m³ · cities per band

MetricValuePeriodSource
NO₂ — annual mean1.94 µg/m³country median 14.820242024 validated hourly NO2 station observations transformed to the exact INSEE commune centre by deterministic nearest-station selection and equal-weight aggregation.1Official
Monthly extreme high temperatureJan 16.16 · Feb 17.93 · Mar 20.88 · Apr 24.27 · May 28.33 · Jun 33.71 · Jul 33.76 · Aug 37.43 · Sep 32.65 · Oct 26.97 · Nov 20.76 · Dec 17.12 °C31 Dec 2001NASA POWER / NASA Langley Research Center15Official
Monthly extreme low temperatureJan -1.48 · Feb -3.5 · Mar -1.71 · Apr 3.46 · May 7.14 · Jun 10.83 · Jul 14.3 · Aug 14.33 · Sep 10.65 · Oct 5.45 · Nov 2.04 · Dec -1.74 °C31 Dec 2001NASA POWER / NASA Langley Research Center15Official
Average temperature by monthJan 8.69 · Feb 8.39 · Mar 10.35 · Apr 12.6 · May 15.42 · Jun 18.85 · Jul 20.67 · Aug 20.86 · Sep 19.08 · Oct 16.2 · Nov 12.24 · Dec 9.44 °C31 Dec 2001NASA POWER / NASA Langley Research Center15Official
Average precipitation by monthJan 80.1 · Feb 61.2 · Mar 54.8 · Apr 58.9 · May 57.6 · Jun 56.5 · Jul 38.8 · Aug 48.4 · Sep 61.3 · Oct 71.7 · Nov 105.9 · Dec 87.1 mm1991–2020WMO Climatological Normals 1991-2020 — station CAP-FERRET24Official · nearest-station reading

Population and city profile

The city covered 48.3 km² in 2026. Population density was 134.3 people per km² in 2023.

How many people live in Arès?

The published population was 6,482 people in January 2023. Source: INSEE populations légales 2023 par commune10

Who lives hereResidents by nationality, % of population

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

MetricValuePeriodSource
City area48.25 km²31 Dec 2026Séries historiques en 2023 — Recensement de la population, base des principaux indicateurs, communes de France hors Mayotte22Official
Foreign residents158 people2021Nationalité en 2021 — Base des tableaux détaillés — NAT116Official
Population density134.3 people/km²31 Dec 2023Séries historiques en 2023 — Recensement de la population, base des principaux indicateurs, communes de France hors Mayotte22Official
Population6,482 people1 Jan 2023INSEE populations légales 2023 par commune10Official

International community in Arès

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 groupPeopleShare
Total6,482100.0%
Français6,325.17997.6%
Etranger156.8212.4%

Largest published groups; zero-count groups are omitted. Dimensions are source-native and are never merged. Official source12

Additional context

MetricValuePeriodSource
Universities0 count3 Aug 2026Ministère de l'Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche (data.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr)14Official

Alternatives for people set on Arès

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.

Le Teich as an Arès alternative in the same region

17 km away, better on 2 of 6 metrics measured the same way, worse on 1.

  • Rent: €12.63/m² Le Teich vs €13.91/m² Arès−9%
  • Recorded crime, per 100k: 2,741 Le Teich vs 3,180 Arès−14%
  • Residents: 9,180 Le Teich vs 6,482 Arès+42%
  • Unemployment: 11.8% Le Teich vs 11.1% Arès+6%
  • Nearest airport: 33.0 km Le Teich vs 34.0 km Arèssame level
  • Median gross pay, region: €2,550 Le Teich vs €2,550 Arèssame level
Full comparisonMore about Le Teich

Sartrouville as an Arès alternative in the same country

A move, not a commute, at 528 km, better on 3 of 5 metrics measured the same way, worse on 1. Rent cannot be compared like for like.

  • Residents: 52,763 Sartrouville vs 6,482 Arès+714%
  • Recorded crime, per 100k: 4,581 Sartrouville vs 3,180 Arès+44%
  • Median gross pay, region: €3,317 Sartrouville vs €2,550 Arès+30%
  • Rent: €20.51/m² Sartrouville vs €13.91/m² Arèsno percentage
  • Nearest airport: 18.0 km Sartrouville vs 34.0 km Arès−47%
  • Unemployment: 10.5% Sartrouville vs 11.1% Arès−6%
Full comparisonMore about Sartrouville

Cities near Arès

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

Lège-Cap-Ferret 3.2 km away
Rent
14.36 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2025-12-31
Andernos-les-Bains 4.4 km away
Rent
14.33 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2025-12-31
Lanton 10.5 km away
Rent
12.83 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2025-12-31
Audenge 13.3 km away
Rent
12.52 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2025-12-31
La Teste-de-Buch 14.9 km away
Rent
13.68 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2025-12-31
Gujan-Mestras 15.4 km away
Rent
13.82 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2025-12-31
Le Teich 17.1 km away
Rent
12.63 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2025-12-31
Biganos 18.4 km away
Rent
12.82 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2025-12-31

Alternative cities in France

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

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Longpont-sur-Orge6,482 residentsLe Perray-en-Yvelines6,480 residentsVillers-Saint-Paul6,480 residentsSaint-Pathus6,479 residentsCalvisson6,486 residentsCondom6,473 residents

How does Arès compare?

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Is Arès part of Bordeaux?

Arès is in the published commuting zone of Bordeaux; this does not mean it is administratively part of the hub. Bordeaux city profile

Relationship type: Commuting Zone Of. Source5

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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 Arès?

The published population was 6,482 people in January 2023. Source: INSEE populations légales 2023 par commune.

How much does it cost to rent in Arès?

Average net cold rent is 13.91 EUR/m² per month (2025-Q3), excluding heating and operating charges. For a 70 m² flat that is about 974 EUR a month before utilities. Source: static.data.gouv.fr.

How safe is Arès?

Police recorded about 3,180 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).

What is the unemployment rate in Arès?

The unemployment rate is about 11.1 % (2022). Source: INSEE RP2022 ACT1 — population active by type of activity, commune.

What is the typical salary around Arès?

The median gross salary is 2,550 EUR/month. Source: www.insee.fr.

How many foreign residents live in Arès?

158 residents hold a foreign nationality. Source: Nationalité en 2021 — Base des tableaux détaillés — NAT1.

Is Arès a good place to live?

Arès 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.

Is Arès part of Bordeaux?

Arès is in the published commuting zone of Bordeaux; this does not mean it is administratively part of the hub.

Which cities are near Arès?

Lège-Cap-Ferret, Andernos-les-Bains, Lanton, Audenge, La Teste-de-Buch are near Arès. 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 Arès?

The official citizenship distribution records 6,325.179 people (97.6%) 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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