Living in Château-Arnoux-Saint-Auban

In Château-Arnoux-Saint-Auban, advertised rents for new lettings average €9.41 per m² a month (2025) and unemployment is 12.7% (2022).

The population of Château-Arnoux-Saint-Auban, in France, was 5,107 at the start of 2023. The foreign population count was 262 in 2021. For Château-Arnoux-Saint-Auban, the unemployment rate was 12.7% at the end of 2022.

Last checked 2026-09-2423 sources

Population5,107people1 Jan 2023Official source · INSEE populations légales 2023 par commune

Median gross salary (region)2,630EUR/month31 Dec 2022Official source · www.insee.fr

Average net rent9.41EUR/m²/monthcountry median €11.60 — 19% belowOfficial source · static.data.gouv.fr

Unemployment rate12.65%country median 11.0% — 15% aboveOfficial source · INSEE RP2022 ACT1 — population active by type of activity, commune

Recorded crime5,083incidents per 100,000country median 4,740 — 7% aboveOfficial source · Base statistique communale de la délinquance enregistrée par la police et la gendarmerie nationales, 2025 (géographie 2026)

PM2.5, annual mean4.21µg/m³country median 8.5 — 50% belowOfficial source · 2024 validated hourly NO2 station observations transformed to the exact INSEE commune centre by deterministic nearest-station selection and equal-weight aggregation.

Cheaper rent than 79% of French cities that publish it, higher unemployment than 64% of French cities that publish it and cleaner air than any other French city that publishes it.

Which France-wide rules apply when you move to Château-Arnoux-Saint-Auban?

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

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Housing and cost

How much does it cost to rent in Château-Arnoux-Saint-Auban?

Average net cold rent is 9.41 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): 9.41 EUR/m²/month · static.data.gouv.fr¹⁶

What recurs every month2 published recurring costs, € per month

€ / month

Internet, 60 Mbps€43

Mobile plan, 10 GB€20

Net rent across major citiesChâteau-Arnoux-Saint-Auban highlighted among comparable cities

net rent, € / m² / month

Paris€26.30

Nice€20.43

Lyon€16.57

Marseille€16.30

Toulouse€13.98

Château-Arnoux-Saint-Auban€9.41

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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 Fibre¹³Official · national market
Mobile plan, 10 GB	19.99 EUR/month	30 Sept 2026	Orange 100GB mobile plan¹²Official · national market
Housing vacancy rate (legacy series)	276 %	31 Dec 2023	INSEE⁴Official
Dwellings	2,975 dwellings	31 Dec 2023	INSEE⁵Official
Main residence dwellings	2,598 dwellings	31 Dec 2023	INSEE⁵Official
Average net rent (nettokalt)	9.41 EUR/m²/monthcountry median €11.60	31 Dec 2025	static.data.gouv.fr¹⁶Official

Is Château-Arnoux-Saint-Auban 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 worker54%strong on work, weak on safety · range 46–62%

Skilled employee52%strong on work, weak on safety · range 44–60%

Student46%strong on education, weak on work · range 39–53%

Family41%strong on family, weak on cost · range 34–48%

Retirement60%strong on air quality, weak on admin · range 51–69%

Worked out from these numbers

What does a 60 m² flat cost?

About 565 EUR a month in cold rent at the published average of 9.41 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 Château-Arnoux-Saint-Auban?

The unemployment rate is about 12.7 % (2022).

Unemployment rate: 12.65 % · INSEE RP2022 ACT1 — population active by type of activity, commune⁸

Unemployment across cities in FranceUnemployment in Château-Arnoux-Saint-Auban is 12.7%. Of 2,240 cities with data, 898 have unemployment of 5 to under 10%.

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Château-Arnoux-Saint-Auban 12.7%

Unemployment rate (%)

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Gigabit broadband availability	97.82 %	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.³Official
Median gross salary (regional)	2,630 EUR/month	31 Dec 2022	www.insee.fr¹⁸Official
Unemployment rate	12.65 %country median 11.0%	31 Dec 2022	INSEE RP2022 ACT1 — population active by type of activity, commune⁸Official

What does a salary buy in Château-Arnoux-Saint-Auban?

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

Left over each month€1,373of €2,001 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.	€2,001
Rent, 60 m²€9.41/m² · official · static.data.gouv.fr · 2025-12-31	− €565
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	€1,373

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Public employment service

No exact public employment office is currently linked to Château-Arnoux-Saint-Auban. 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 Château-Arnoux-Saint-Auban. Sources checked through 10 Aug 2026.

Family and education

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Schools	7 schools	27 May 2026	RNEE exact Code_commune; etat=OUVERT; code_nature 100-199 or 300-399; unique UAI count.¹⁴Official · commune
Primary schools	1 schools	31 Dec 2025	INSEE⁴Official

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; Château-Arnoux-Saint-Auban's school authority applies it locally.

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

Healthcare

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Primary care doctors per 100,000 residents	117.5 per 100,000 people	31 Dec 2024	INSEE BPE 2024 commune equipment and PMUN denominator evidence⁶Official

Yes — migrants can receive medical care in Château-Arnoux-Saint-Auban 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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Country rule verified 2026-08-03.

Safety

How safe is Château-Arnoux-Saint-Auban?

Police recorded about 5,083 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 citiesChâteau-Arnoux-Saint-Auban 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

Château-Arnoux-Saint-Auban5,083

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Recorded incidents per 100,000 residents	5,083 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

Language courses and integration

No exact city-level course record is currently published for Château-Arnoux-Saint-Auban. 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

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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 Château-Arnoux-Saint-Auban.

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Climate and air quality

Average high temperatures were 9.5°C in January and 30.3°C in July. Monthly precipitation was 48.2 mm in January and 35.7 mm in July. Annual PM2.5 was 4.21 µg/m³ in 2024.

Is the air quality good in Château-Arnoux-Saint-Auban?

The annual PM2.5 mean is about 4.2 µg/m³ (2024) — within the WHO 2021 guideline.

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

PM2.5 — annual mean: 4.21 µg/m³ · 2024 validated hourly NO2 station observations transformed to the exact INSEE commune centre by deterministic nearest-station selection and equal-weight aggregation.¹

Temperature through the yearAverage daytime high and night-time low, °C

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27°13°

30°16°

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19°9°

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Night-time low to daytime high

Rainfall through the yearAverage monthly precipitation, mm

JFMAMJJASOND

Sunshine through the yearAverage monthly sunshine, hours

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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

PM2.54.2WHO 5 · EU 25

PM108.1WHO 15 · EU 40

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 Château-Arnoux-Saint-Auban is 4.2 µg/m³. Of 1,975 cities with data, 626 have annual PM2.5 of 8 to under 9 µg/m³.

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Château-Arnoux-Saint-Auban 4.2

Annual PM2.5 (µg/m³)

Metric	Value	Period	Source
PM10 — annual mean	8.06 µg/m³country median 14.2	2024	2024 validated hourly NO2 station observations transformed to the exact INSEE commune centre by deterministic nearest-station selection and equal-weight aggregation.¹Official
PM2.5 — annual mean	4.21 µg/m³country median 8.5	2024	2024 validated hourly NO2 station observations transformed to the exact INSEE commune centre by deterministic nearest-station selection and equal-weight aggregation.¹Official
Average daytime high by month	Jan 9.5 · Feb 11.2 · Mar 15.3 · Apr 18.1 · May 22.3 · Jun 26.9 · Jul 30.3 · Aug 30 · Sep 24.7 · Oct 19.4 · Nov 13.3 · Dec 9.5 °C	31 Dec 2020	Météo-France climate normal — mean monthly maximum air temperature, ST AUBAN, 1991-2020¹⁰Official
Average night-time low by month	Jan 0.2 · Feb 0.3 · Mar 3.1 · Apr 5.8 · May 9.7 · Jun 13.4 · Jul 15.8 · Aug 15.7 · Sep 12.1 · Oct 8.6 · Nov 4.1 · Dec 0.9 °C	31 Dec 2020	Météo-France climate normal — mean monthly minimum air temperature, ST AUBAN, 1991-2020¹⁰Official
Average temperature by month	Jan 4.9 · Feb 5.8 · Mar 9.2 · Apr 12 · May 16 · Jun 20.2 · Jul 23.1 · Aug 22.8 · Sep 18.4 · Oct 14 · Nov 8.7 · Dec 5.2 °C	1991–2020	WMO Climatological Normals 1991-2020 — station ST_AUBAN¹⁷Official · nearest-station reading
Average precipitation by month	Jan 48.2 · Feb 35.9 · Mar 44.7 · Apr 64.8 · May 63.9 · Jun 53.5 · Jul 35.7 · Aug 50.7 · Sep 73.7 · Oct 88 · Nov 96.2 · Dec 58.9 mm	31 Dec 2020	Météo-France climate normal — mean monthly precipitation, ST AUBAN, 1991-2020¹⁰Official
Average sunshine by month	Jan 168.1 · Feb 183.4 · Mar 229.6 · Apr 227.8 · May 263.3 · Jun 302.7 · Jul 341.5 · Aug 311.5 · Sep 249 · Oct 196.4 · Nov 156.7 · Dec 149.3 hours	31 Dec 2020	Météo-France climate normal — mean monthly sunshine duration, ST AUBAN, 1991-2020¹⁰Official

Population and city profile

The city covered 18.3 km² in 2026. Population density was 278.5 people per km² in 2023.

How many people live in Château-Arnoux-Saint-Auban?

The published population was 5,107 people in January 2023. Source: INSEE populations légales 2023 par commune⁷

Who lives hereResidents by nationality, % of population

By nationality

National passport94.9%

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

Metric	Value	Period	Source
City area	18.34 km²	31 Dec 2026	Séries historiques en 2023 — Recensement de la population, base des principaux indicateurs, communes de France hors Mayotte¹⁵Official
Foreign residents	262 people	2021	Nationalité en 2021 — Base des tableaux détaillés — NAT1¹¹Official
Population density	278.5 people/km²	31 Dec 2023	Séries historiques en 2023 — Recensement de la population, base des principaux indicateurs, communes de France hors Mayotte¹⁵Official
Population	5,107 people	1 Jan 2023	INSEE populations légales 2023 par commune⁷Official

International community in Château-Arnoux-Saint-Auban

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	5,107	100.0%
Français	4,827	94.5%
Etranger	280	5.5%

Largest published groups; zero-count groups are omitted. Dimensions are source-native and are never merged. Official source⁹

Alternatives for people set on Château-Arnoux-Saint-Auban

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.

Sisteron as a Château-Arnoux-Saint-Auban alternative in the same region

12 km away, better on 1 of 5 metrics measured the same way, worse on 1.

Rent: €8.48/m² Sisteron vs €9.41/m² Château-Arnoux-Saint-Auban−10%
Residents: 7,850 Sisteron vs 5,107 Château-Arnoux-Saint-Auban+54%
Recorded crime, per 100k: 5,491 Sisteron vs 5,083 Château-Arnoux-Saint-Auban+8%
Unemployment: 12.7% Sisteron vs 12.7% Château-Arnoux-Saint-Aubansame level
Median gross pay, region: €2,630 Sisteron vs €2,630 Château-Arnoux-Saint-Aubansame level

Full comparison More about Sisteron

Sartrouville as a Château-Arnoux-Saint-Auban alternative in the same country

A move, not a commute, at 614 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 5,107 Château-Arnoux-Saint-Auban+933%
Annual PM2.5: 9.7 µg/m³ Sartrouville vs 4.2 µg/m³ Château-Arnoux-Saint-Auban+131%
Median gross pay, region: €3,317 Sartrouville vs €2,630 Château-Arnoux-Saint-Auban+26%
Rent: €20.51/m² Sartrouville vs €9.41/m² Château-Arnoux-Saint-Aubanno percentage
Unemployment: 10.5% Sartrouville vs 12.7% Château-Arnoux-Saint-Auban−17%
Recorded crime, per 100k: 4,581 Sartrouville vs 5,083 Château-Arnoux-Saint-Auban−10%

Full comparison More about Sartrouville

Cities near Château-Arnoux-Saint-Auban

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

Sisteron 11.8 km away

Rent: 8.48 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2025-12-31

Digne-les-Bains 18.1 km away

Rent: 12.01 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2025-12-31

Oraison 20.9 km away

Rent: 11.87 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2025-12-31

Forcalquier 23.6 km away

Rent: 12.18 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2025-12-31

Alternative cities in France

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All France cities

Faulquemont5,109 residents Le Val d'Hazey5,111 residents Aÿ-Champagne5,103 residents Decize5,103 residents Val-de-Moder5,102 residents Pulnoy5,099 residents

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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 Château-Arnoux-Saint-Auban?

The published population was 5,107 people in January 2023. Source: INSEE populations légales 2023 par commune.

How much does it cost to rent in Château-Arnoux-Saint-Auban?

Average net cold rent is 9.41 EUR/m² per month (2025-Q3), excluding heating and operating charges. For a 70 m² flat that is about 659 EUR a month before utilities. Source: static.data.gouv.fr.

Is the air quality good in Château-Arnoux-Saint-Auban?

The annual PM2.5 mean is about 4.2 µg/m³ (2024) — within the WHO 2021 guideline. Source: 2024 validated hourly NO2 station observations transformed to the exact INSEE commune centre by deterministic nearest-station selection and equal-weight aggregation..

How safe is Château-Arnoux-Saint-Auban?

What is the unemployment rate in Château-Arnoux-Saint-Auban?

The unemployment rate is about 12.7 % (2022). Source: INSEE RP2022 ACT1 — population active by type of activity, commune.

What is the typical salary around Château-Arnoux-Saint-Auban?

The median gross salary is 2,630 EUR/month. Source: www.insee.fr.

Is Château-Arnoux-Saint-Auban a good place to live?

Château-Arnoux-Saint-Auban 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 Château-Arnoux-Saint-Auban?

Sisteron, Digne-les-Bains, Oraison, Forcalquier are near Château-Arnoux-Saint-Auban. 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 Château-Arnoux-Saint-Auban?

The official citizenship distribution records 4,827 people (94.5%) 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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  author = {ImmigrationDB},
  title = {Château-Arnoux-Saint-Auban, France: population, rent, salary},
  publisher = {ImmigrationDB},
  year = {2026},
  date = {2026-10-16},
  version = {e90c4bb2f4d5fe1e5c83ff661a284744},
  url = {https://immigrationdb.com/cities/fr/chateau-arnoux-saint-auban/},
  note = {Retrieved 2026-10-16. ImmigrationDB compilation. Compilation license: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/},
}

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