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Living in Pézenas

In Pézenas, advertised rents for new lettings average €9.55 per m² a month (2025) and unemployment is 18.4% (2022).

The unemployment rate was 18.4% at the end of 2022. Annual NO₂ was 4.93 µg/m³ in 2024. Pézenas had a population of 7,797 at the start of 2023. In 2021, the foreign population was 530. The city had 12 schools in 2026. There were 269.3 physicians per 100,000 residents in 2024.

Last checked 2026-09-2434 sources

Population7,797people1 Jan 2023Official source · INSEE populations légales 2023 par commune
Median gross salary (region)2,575EUR/month31 Dec 2022Official source · www.insee.fr
Average net rent9.55EUR/m²/monthcountry median €11.60 — 18% belowOfficial source · static.data.gouv.fr
Unemployment rate18.39%country median 11.0% — 68% aboveOfficial source · INSEE RP2022 ACT1 — population active by type of activity, commune
Recorded crime8,038incidents per 100,000country median 4,740 — 70% aboveOfficial source · Base statistique communale de la délinquance enregistrée par la police et la gendarmerie nationales, 2025 (géographie 2026)

Cheaper rent than 77% of French cities that publish it, higher unemployment than 91% of French cities that publish it and more recorded crime than 94% of French cities that publish it.

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

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 Pézenas.Healthcare eligibilityCountry-wide insurance and residence conditions.

Housing and cost

How much does it cost to rent in Pézenas?

Average net cold rent is 9.55 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): 9.55 EUR/m²/month · static.data.gouv.fr22
What recurs every month2 published recurring costs, € per month
Pézenas recurring monthly costs, € per month

€ / month

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

net rent, € / m² / month

Paris€26.30
Nice€20.43
Lyon€16.57
Marseille€16.30
Toulouse€13.98
Pézenas€9.55
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 Fibre18Official · national market
Mobile plan, 10 GB19.99 EUR/month30 Sept 2026Orange 100GB mobile plan17Official · national market
Housing vacancy rate (legacy series)723.3 %31 Dec 2023INSEE6Official
Dwellings5,337 dwellings31 Dec 2023INSEE7Official
Main residence dwellings4,032 dwellings31 Dec 2023INSEE7Official
Average net rent (nettokalt)9.55 EUR/m²/monthcountry median €11.6031 Dec 2025static.data.gouv.fr22Official

Is Pézenas 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 worker55%strong on work, weak on safety · range 47–63%
Skilled employee58%strong on work, weak on safety · range 50–66%
Student57%strong on education, weak on safety · range 50–64%
Family48%strong on family, weak on cost · range 41–55%
Retirement59%strong on air quality, weak on admin · range 50–68%

Worked out from these numbers

What does a 60 m² flat cost?

About 573 EUR a month in cold rent at the published average of 9.55 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 Pézenas?

The unemployment rate is about 18.4 % (2022).

  • Unemployment rate: 18.39 % · INSEE RP2022 ACT1 — population active by type of activity, commune10
Unemployment across cities in FranceUnemployment in Pézenas is 18.4%. Of 2,240 cities with data, 898 have unemployment of 5 to under 10%.

Unemployment rate (%)

MetricValuePeriodSource
Fibre-to-the-building availability94.85 %3 Aug 2026Arcep (Autorité de régulation des communications électroniques, des postes et de la distribution de la presse)2Official
Gigabit broadband availability94.85 %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.5Official
Median gross salary (regional)2,575 EUR/month31 Dec 2022www.insee.fr24Official
Unemployment rate18.39 %country median 11.0%31 Dec 2022INSEE RP2022 ACT1 — population active by type of activity, commune10Official

What does a salary buy in Pézenas?

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

regional median gross pay: €2,575 (insee.fr, 2022-12-31).
Left over each month€1,325of €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€9.55/m² · official · static.data.gouv.fr · 2025-12-31− €573
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€1,325
Take-home pay for other salaries and households Compare with another city Check a job offer in Pézenas Salary needed to live in Pézenas

Public employment service

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

Country-level information
Open the France service overview

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

Family and education

MetricValuePeriodSource
Schools12 schools27 May 2026RNEE exact Code_commune; etat=OUVERT; code_nature 100-199 or 300-399; unique UAI count.20Official · commune
Primary schools5 count3 Aug 2026Ministère de l'Éducation nationale (data.education.gouv.fr)13Official
Schools15 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; Pézenas's school authority applies it locally.

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

Healthcare

MetricValuePeriodSource
Primary care doctors per 100,000 residents269.3 per 100,000 people31 Dec 2024INSEE BPE 2024 commune equipment and PMUN denominator evidence8Official
Hospital beds per 100,000 residents774.8 beds per 100,00031 Dec 2011DREES / DGOS – Statistique Annuelle des Établissements de Santé (SAE) 20114Official

Yes — migrants can receive medical care in Pézenas 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 residents774.8 beds per 100,000Verified 2026-08-03
Country rule verified 2026-08-03.

Safety

How safe is Pézenas?

Police recorded about 8,038 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 citiesPézenas highlighted among comparable cities
Recorded crime across major cities with Pézenas highlighted

recorded incidents per 100k residents

Lille13,488
Lyon13,026
Bordeaux12,429
Marseille11,857
Paris10,987
Montpellier9,636
Toulouse8,875
Rennes8,241
Pézenas8,038
Strasbourg7,791
Nantes7,704
Nice7,577
MetricValuePeriodSource
Recorded incidents per 100,000 residents8,038 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 airport9 count3 Aug 2026OpenFlights16Official
Nearest airportBZR3 Aug 2026OurAirports19Official
Distance to nearest airport16 km3 Aug 2026OurAirports19Official

Language courses and integration

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

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Climate and air quality

Temperature through the yearAverage daytime high and night-time low, °C
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 Pézenas lands among 1911 measured cities

annual NO₂, µg/m³ · cities per band

MetricValuePeriodSource
NO₂ — annual mean4.93 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
NO₂ — latest reading2.7 µg/m³15 Jul 2026Latest valid NO2 hourly station observation on the official LCSQA E2 current-day extract, mapped to the exact INSEE centre through an exact normalized station-name crosswalk to EEA station metadata.12Official
Average daytime high by monthJan 12.1 · Feb 13.1 · Mar 16.3 · Apr 18.6 · May 22.3 · Jun 27 · Jul 29.7 · Aug 29.3 · Sep 25.3 · Oct 21 · Nov 15.9 · Dec 12.6 °C1991–2020WMO Climatological Normals 1991-2020 — station BEZIERS-VIAS23Official · nearest-station reading
Average night-time low by monthJan 3.6 · Feb 3.5 · Mar 6 · Apr 8.7 · May 12.2 · Jun 15.9 · Jul 18.3 · Aug 18 · Sep 14.6 · Oct 12 · Nov 7.3 · Dec 4 °C1991–2020WMO Climatological Normals 1991-2020 — station BEZIERS-VIAS23Official · nearest-station reading
Average temperature by monthJan 7.8 · Feb 8.3 · Mar 11.1 · Apr 13.6 · May 17.2 · Jun 21.4 · Jul 24 · Aug 23.7 · Sep 19.9 · Oct 16.5 · Nov 11.6 · Dec 8.3 °C1991–2020WMO Climatological Normals 1991-2020 — station BEZIERS-VIAS23Official · nearest-station reading
Average precipitation by monthJan 47.5 · Feb 52 · Mar 41.4 · Apr 51.2 · May 42.4 · Jun 26.3 · Jul 13.7 · Aug 25.5 · Sep 61.6 · Oct 83.9 · Nov 68.6 · Dec 41.2 mm1991–2020WMO Climatological Normals 1991-2020 — station BEZIERS-VIAS23Official · nearest-station reading

Similar climate. In France: Aix-en-Provence ±0.7 °C. Elsewhere: Bari (Italy) ±1.0 °C, Alcorcón (Spain) ±1.2 °C, Móstoles (Spain) ±1.2 °C, Foggia (Italy) ±1.2 °C, Murfreesboro (United States) ±2.5 °C. Twenty closest, compared month by month

Monthly highs and lows against the 1991–2020 station normals of the nearest station; ± is the average monthly difference.

Population and city profile

The city covered 29.6 km² in 2026. Population density was 263.8 people per km² in 2023.

How many people live in Pézenas?

The published population was 7,797 people in January 2023. Source: INSEE populations légales 2023 par commune9

Who lives hereResidents by nationality, % of population

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

MetricValuePeriodSource
City area29.56 km²31 Dec 2026Séries historiques en 2023 — Recensement de la population, base des principaux indicateurs, communes de France hors Mayotte21Official
Foreign residents530 people2021Nationalité en 2021 — Base des tableaux détaillés — NAT115Official
Population density263.8 people/km²31 Dec 2023Séries historiques en 2023 — Recensement de la population, base des principaux indicateurs, communes de France hors Mayotte21Official
Population7,797 people1 Jan 2023INSEE populations légales 2023 par commune9Official

International community in Pézenas

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
Total7,797100.0%
Français7,271.86293.3%
Etranger525.1386.7%

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

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 Pézenas

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.

Servian as a Pézenas alternative in the same region

11 km away, better on 2 of 5 metrics measured the same way, worse on 1.

  • Recorded crime, per 100k: 4,292 Servian vs 8,038 Pézenas−47%
  • Unemployment: 12.5% Servian vs 18.4% Pézenas−32%
  • Residents: 5,517 Servian vs 7,797 Pézenas−29%
  • Rent: €9.84/m² Servian vs €9.55/m² Pézenas+3%
  • Median gross pay, region: €2,575 Servian vs €2,575 Pézenassame level
Full comparisonMore about Servian

Massy as a Pézenas alternative in the same country

A move, not a commute, at 593 km, better on 4 of 6 metrics measured the same way, worse on 0. Rent cannot be compared like for like.

  • Residents: 51,729 Massy vs 7,797 Pézenas+563%
  • Unemployment: 9.7% Massy vs 18.4% Pézenas−47%
  • Median gross pay, region: €3,317 Massy vs €2,575 Pézenas+29%
  • Rent: €20.08/m² Massy vs €9.55/m² Pézenasno percentage
  • Nearest airport: 6.0 km Massy vs 16.0 km Pézenas−63%
  • Recorded crime, per 100k: 6,806 Massy vs 8,038 Pézenas−15%
  • Hospital beds, per 100k: 776.4 Massy vs 774.8 Pézenassame level
Full comparisonMore about Massy

Cities near Pézenas

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

Florensac 9.2 km away
Rent
10.16 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2025-12-31
Servian 10.6 km away
Rent
9.84 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2025-12-31
Bessan 10.9 km away
Rent
10.43 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2025-12-31
Marseillan 14.3 km away
Rent
10.8 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2025-12-31
Mèze 15.2 km away
Rent
12.1 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2025-12-31
Vias 16.3 km away
Rent
11.67 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2025-12-31
Agde 17.2 km away
Rent
11.82 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2025-12-31

Alternative cities in France

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

All France cities
Terville7,801 residentsLagord7,802 residentsMontreuil-Juigné7,808 residentsLa Verpillière7,786 residentsNeuville-sur-Saône7,812 residentsSaint-Étienne-de-Montluc7,780 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 Pézenas?

The published population was 7,797 people in January 2023. Source: INSEE populations légales 2023 par commune.

How much does it cost to rent in Pézenas?

Average net cold rent is 9.55 EUR/m² per month (2025-Q3), excluding heating and operating charges. For a 70 m² flat that is about 669 EUR a month before utilities. Source: static.data.gouv.fr.

How safe is Pézenas?

Police recorded about 8,038 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 Pézenas?

The unemployment rate is about 18.4 % (2022). Source: INSEE RP2022 ACT1 — population active by type of activity, commune.

What is the typical salary around Pézenas?

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

How many foreign residents live in Pézenas?

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

Is Pézenas a good place to live?

Pézenas 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 Pézenas?

Florensac, Servian, Bessan, Marseillan, Mèze are near Pézenas. 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 Pézenas?

The official citizenship distribution records 7,271.862 people (93.3%) 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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ImmigrationDB. (2026, October 16). Pézenas, France: population, rent, salary, cost of living [ImmigrationDB compilation; version 9a78ec8d7adb492951166e2fb040f5d5]. ImmigrationDB. https://immigrationdb.com/cities/fr/pezenas/ Retrieved 2026-10-16. Compilation license: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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  author = {ImmigrationDB},
  title = {Pézenas, France: population, rent, salary, cost of living},
  publisher = {ImmigrationDB},
  year = {2026},
  date = {2026-10-16},
  version = {9a78ec8d7adb492951166e2fb040f5d5},
  url = {https://immigrationdb.com/cities/fr/pezenas/},
  note = {Retrieved 2026-10-16. ImmigrationDB compilation. Compilation license: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/},
}
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