Living in Port-Saint-Louis-du-Rhône
In Port-Saint-Louis-du-Rhône, rents across existing tenancies average €11.10 per m² a month (2023) and unemployment is 14% (2022).
The unemployment rate was 14% at the end of 2022. The foreign population count was 636 in 2021. Gigabit broadband availability was 99.5% in March 2026. At the start of 2023, Port-Saint-Louis-du-Rhône had a population of 8,573. The city covered 73.4 km² in 2026. Population density was 117 people per km² in 2023. The city had 10 schools in 2026. There were 35 physicians per 100,000 residents in 2024.
Higher unemployment than 73% of French cities that publish it and more recorded crime than 71% of French cities that publish it.
Which France-wide rules apply when you move to Port-Saint-Louis-du-Rhône?
National rules stay on the country page instead of being relabelled as city data.
Housing and cost
How much does it cost to rent in Port-Saint-Louis-du-Rhône?
Average net cold rent is 11.1 EUR/m² per month (2023), 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): 11.1 EUR/m²/month · www.observatoires-des-loyers.org23
| Metric | Value | Period | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Internet, 60 Mbps unlimited | 42.99 EUR/month | 30 Sept 2026 | Orange Livebox Fibre16Official · national market |
| Mobile plan, 10 GB | 19.99 EUR/month | 30 Sept 2026 | Orange 100GB mobile plan15Official · national market |
| Housing vacancy rate (legacy series) | 459 % | 31 Dec 2023 | INSEE5Official |
| Dwellings | 4,801 dwellings | 31 Dec 2023 | INSEE6Official |
| Main residence dwellings | 4,013 dwellings | 31 Dec 2023 | INSEE6Official |
| Average net rent (nettokalt) | 11.1 EUR/m²/monthcountry median €11.60 | 31 Dec 2023 | www.observatoires-des-loyers.org23Official |
Is Port-Saint-Louis-du-Rhône 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.
Worked out from these numbers
What does a 60 m² flat cost?
About 666 EUR a month in cold rent at the published average of 11.1 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.
Work and income
What is the unemployment rate in Port-Saint-Louis-du-Rhône?
The unemployment rate is about 14 % (2022). Source: INSEE RP2022 ACT1 — population active by type of activity, commune9
Port-Saint-Louis-du-Rhône 14.0%
Unemployment rate (%)
| Metric | Value | Period | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fibre-to-the-building availability | 99.54 % | 3 Aug 2026 | Arcep (Autorité de régulation des communications électroniques, des postes et de la distribution de la presse)2Official |
| Gigabit broadband availability | 99.54 % | 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.4Official |
| Median gross salary (regional) | 2,630 EUR/month | 31 Dec 2022 | www.insee.fr22Official |
| Unemployment rate | 14 %country median 11.0% | 31 Dec 2022 | INSEE RP2022 ACT1 — population active by type of activity, commune9Official |
What does a salary buy in Port-Saint-Louis-du-Rhône?
Take-home pay after tax, minus rent and the everyday bills this city publishes. Each line names its source.
RentInternetMobileLeft 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€11.10/m² · official · observatoires-des-loyers.org · 2023-12-31 | − €666 |
| 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 | €1,272 |
Public employment service
No exact public employment office is currently linked to Port-Saint-Louis-du-Rhône. The verified national service may still offer online registration, job search or an official office finder.
France Travail — Public employment service
Country-level service information is not treated as proof of a physical office in Port-Saint-Louis-du-Rhône. Sources checked through 10 Aug 2026.
Family and education
| Metric | Value | Period | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Schools | 10 schools | 27 May 2026 | RNEE exact Code_commune; etat=OUVERT; code_nature 100-199 or 300-399; unique UAI count.18Official · commune |
| Primary schools | 7 count | 3 Aug 2026 | Ministère de l'Éducation nationale (data.education.gouv.fr)11Official |
| Schools | 10 count | 3 Aug 2026 | Ministère de l'Éducation nationale (data.education.gouv.fr)11Official |
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; Port-Saint-Louis-du-Rhône'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 | 34.99 per 100,000 people | 31 Dec 2024 | INSEE BPE 2024 commune equipment and PMUN denominator evidence7Official |
Yes — migrants can receive medical care in Port-Saint-Louis-du-Rhône 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.
Open the official coverage guideSafety
How safe is Port-Saint-Louis-du-Rhône?
Police recorded about 5,696 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
| Metric | Value | Period | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Recorded incidents per 100,000 residents | 5,696 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)3Official |
Mobility and administration
Language courses and integration
No exact city-level course record is currently published for Port-Saint-Louis-du-Rhône. These verified national programmes may still apply; use the official programme page to check local availability.
Contrat d’intégration républicaine (CIR) — Integration course
État français and OFII
For eligible non-EU foreign residents.
DIAN language-training offer finder — Other
Réseau des Carif-Oref and DIAN
For people seeking French-language training.
Climate and air quality
Annual PM2.5 was 8.36 µg/m³ in 2024. Annual PM10 was 18.7 µg/m³ in 2024.
Is the air quality good in Port-Saint-Louis-du-Rhône?
The annual PM2.5 mean is about 8.4 µg/m³ (2024) — above the WHO 2021 guideline of 5 µg/m³ but within the EU limit of 25 µg/m³.
Annual mean at the measuring site(s) serving the city; current-day readings differ.
- PM2.5 — annual mean: 8.36 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
Night-time low to daytime high
mm
Within WHO 2021 guidelineAbove WHO, within EU limitAbove EU legal limitCity annual mean · µg/m³
City values from the published air-quality observations. WHO 2021 guidelines and EU limit values are published constants.
Port-Saint-Louis-du-Rhône 8.4
Annual PM2.5 (µg/m³)
| Metric | Value | Period | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| PM10 — annual mean | 18.69 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 | 8.36 µg/m³country median 8.5 — about the same | 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 11.6 · Feb 12.7 · Mar 16.4 · Apr 19.1 · May 23.2 · Jun 27.8 · Jul 30.7 · Aug 30.4 · Sep 25.8 · Oct 21 · Nov 15.4 · Dec 12.1 °C | 1991–2020 | WMO Climatological Normals 1991-2020 — station ISTRES21Official · nearest-station reading |
| Average night-time low by month | Jan 3.4 · Feb 3.5 · Mar 6.2 · Apr 8.8 · May 12.6 · Jun 16.6 · Jul 19.2 · Aug 19 · Sep 15.4 · Oct 12.2 · Nov 7.4 · Dec 4.2 °C | 1991–2020 | WMO Climatological Normals 1991-2020 — station ISTRES21Official · nearest-station reading |
| Average temperature by month | Jan 7.5 · Feb 8.1 · Mar 11.3 · Apr 14 · May 17.9 · Jun 22.2 · Jul 24.9 · Aug 24.7 · Sep 20.6 · Oct 16.6 · Nov 11.4 · Dec 8.2 °C | 1991–2020 | WMO Climatological Normals 1991-2020 — station ISTRES21Official · nearest-station reading |
| Average precipitation by month | Jan 55.6 · Feb 33.6 · Mar 31.5 · Apr 59 · May 42.5 · Jun 28.2 · Jul 12.5 · Aug 23.4 · Sep 80 · Oct 86.7 · Nov 76.2 · Dec 43.7 mm | 1991–2020 | WMO Climatological Normals 1991-2020 — station ISTRES21Official · nearest-station reading |
Annual PM2.5 fell 30.3% between 2017 and 2024, from 12.0 to 8.4.
Similar climate. In France: Aix-en-Provence ±0.3 °C. Elsewhere: Bari (Italy) ±0.8 °C, Murfreesboro (United States) ±2.2 °C, Little Rock (United States) ±2.3 °C, Tarragona (Spain) ±1.2 °C, Oklahoma City (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
How many people live in Port-Saint-Louis-du-Rhône?
The published population was 8,573 people in January 2023. Source: INSEE populations légales 2023 par commune8
By nationality
National passport92.6%
Calculated from the population and foreign-resident facts on this page.
| Metric | Value | Period | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| City area | 73.38 km² | 31 Dec 2026 | Séries historiques en 2023 — Recensement de la population, base des principaux indicateurs, communes de France hors Mayotte19Official |
| Foreign residents | 636 people | 2021 | Nationalité en 2021 — Base des tableaux détaillés — NAT113Official |
| Population density | 116.8 people/km² | 31 Dec 2023 | Séries historiques en 2023 — Recensement de la population, base des principaux indicateurs, communes de France hors Mayotte19Official |
| Population | 8,573 people | 1 Jan 2023 | INSEE populations légales 2023 par commune8Official |
International community in Port-Saint-Louis-du-Rhône
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 | 8,573 | 100.0% |
| Français | 7,924 | 92.4% |
| Etranger | 649 | 7.6% |
Largest published groups; zero-count groups are omitted. Dimensions are source-native and are never merged. Official source10
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)12Official |
Alternatives for people set on Port-Saint-Louis-du-Rhône
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-Mitre-les-Remparts as a Port-Saint-Louis-du-Rhône alternative in the same region
19 km away, better on 3 of 7 metrics measured the same way, worse on 2.
- Unemployment: 9.0% Saint-Mitre-les-Remparts vs 14.0% Port-Saint-Louis-du-Rhône−35%
- Rent: €12.60/m² Saint-Mitre-les-Remparts vs €11.10/m² Port-Saint-Louis-du-Rhône+14%
- Nearest airport: 16.0 km Saint-Mitre-les-Remparts vs 33.0 km Port-Saint-Louis-du-Rhône−52%
- Recorded crime, per 100k: 5,126 Saint-Mitre-les-Remparts vs 5,696 Port-Saint-Louis-du-Rhône−10%
- Residents: 6,175 Saint-Mitre-les-Remparts vs 8,573 Port-Saint-Louis-du-Rhône−28%
- Annual PM2.5: 8.8 µg/m³ Saint-Mitre-les-Remparts vs 8.4 µg/m³ Port-Saint-Louis-du-Rhône+6%
- Median gross pay, region: €2,630 Saint-Mitre-les-Remparts vs €2,630 Port-Saint-Louis-du-Rhônesame level
Sartrouville as a Port-Saint-Louis-du-Rhône alternative in the same country
A move, not a commute, at 650 km, better on 4 of 6 metrics measured the same way, worse on 1. Rent cannot be compared like for like.
- Residents: 52,763 Sartrouville vs 8,573 Port-Saint-Louis-du-Rhône+515%
- Median gross pay, region: €3,317 Sartrouville vs €2,630 Port-Saint-Louis-du-Rhône+26%
- Rent: €20.51/m² (2025) Sartrouville vs €11.10/m² (2023) Port-Saint-Louis-du-Rhôneno percentage
- Unemployment: 10.5% Sartrouville vs 14.0% Port-Saint-Louis-du-Rhône−25%
- Recorded crime, per 100k: 4,581 Sartrouville vs 5,696 Port-Saint-Louis-du-Rhône−20%
- Nearest airport: 18.0 km Sartrouville vs 33.0 km Port-Saint-Louis-du-Rhône−45%
- Annual PM2.5: 9.7 µg/m³ Sartrouville vs 8.4 µg/m³ Port-Saint-Louis-du-Rhône+16%
Cities near Port-Saint-Louis-du-Rhône
Published cities within 25 km, nearest first. Distances are straight-line.
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- 12.3 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2023-12-31
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- 11.1 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2023-12-31
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- 12.6 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2023-12-31
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- 15.5 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2025-09-30
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- 15.02 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2025-09-30
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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 Port-Saint-Louis-du-Rhône?
The published population was 8,573 people in January 2023. Source: INSEE populations légales 2023 par commune.
How much does it cost to rent in Port-Saint-Louis-du-Rhône?
Average net cold rent is 11.1 EUR/m² per month (2023), excluding heating and operating charges. For a 70 m² flat that is about 777 EUR a month before utilities. Source: www.observatoires-des-loyers.org.
Is the air quality good in Port-Saint-Louis-du-Rhône?
The annual PM2.5 mean is about 8.4 µg/m³ (2024) — above the WHO 2021 guideline of 5 µg/m³ but within the EU limit of 25 µg/m³. 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 Port-Saint-Louis-du-Rhône?
Police recorded about 5,696 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 Port-Saint-Louis-du-Rhône?
The unemployment rate is about 14 % (2022). Source: INSEE RP2022 ACT1 — population active by type of activity, commune.
What is the typical salary around Port-Saint-Louis-du-Rhône?
The median gross salary is 2,630 EUR/month. Source: www.insee.fr.
Is Port-Saint-Louis-du-Rhône a good place to live?
Port-Saint-Louis-du-Rhône 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 Port-Saint-Louis-du-Rhône?
Fos-sur-Mer, Port-de-Bouc, Saint-Mitre-les-Remparts, Martigues, Istres are near Port-Saint-Louis-du-Rhône. 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 Port-Saint-Louis-du-Rhône?
The official citizenship distribution records 7,924 people (92.4%) 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). Port-Saint-Louis-du-Rhône, France: population, rent, salary [ImmigrationDB compilation; version 394855710927ee7990262a6108ce6880]. ImmigrationDB. https://immigrationdb.com/cities/fr/port-saint-louis-du-rhone/ Retrieved 2026-10-16. Compilation license: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/BibTeX citation
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