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Living in Revel

In Revel, advertised rents for new lettings average €7.66 per m² a month (2025) and unemployment is 16.2% (2022).

Population density was 276.5 people per km² in 2023. The city had 10 schools in 2026. There were 143.4 physicians per 100,000 residents in 2024. The foreign population count was 296 in 2021. The unemployment rate was 16.2% at the end of 2022. Revel is in France; its population was 9,762 at the start of 2023. In 2024, annual NO₂ was 5.45 µg/m³. The city covered 35.3 km² in 2026.

Last checked 2026-09-2427 sources

Population9,762people1 Jan 2023Official source · INSEE populations légales 2023 par commune
Median gross salary (region)2,575EUR/month31 Dec 2022Official source · www.insee.fr
Average net rent7.66EUR/m²/monthcountry median €11.60 — 34% belowOfficial source · static.data.gouv.fr
Unemployment rate16.18%country median 11.0% — 47% aboveOfficial source · INSEE RP2022 ACT1 — population active by type of activity, commune
Recorded crime6,042incidents per 100,000country median 4,740 — 27% aboveOfficial source · Base statistique communale de la délinquance enregistrée par la police et la gendarmerie nationales, 2025 (géographie 2026)
PM2.5, annual mean8.55µg/m³country median 8.5 — about the sameOfficial 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 94% of French cities that publish it, higher unemployment than 84% of French cities that publish it and more recorded crime than 75% of French cities that publish it.

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

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 Revel.Healthcare eligibilityCountry-wide insurance and residence conditions.

Housing and cost

How much does it cost to rent in Revel?

Average net cold rent is 7.66 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): 7.66 EUR/m²/month · static.data.gouv.fr22
What recurs every month2 published recurring costs, € per month
Revel recurring monthly costs, € per month

€ / month

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

net rent, € / m² / month

Paris€26.30
Nice€20.43
Lyon€16.57
Marseille€16.30
Toulouse€13.98
Revel€7.66
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)654.1 %31 Dec 2023INSEE5Official
Dwellings5,803 dwellings31 Dec 2023INSEE6Official
Main residence dwellings4,977 dwellings31 Dec 2023INSEE6Official
Average net rent (nettokalt)7.66 EUR/m²/monthcountry median €11.6031 Dec 2025static.data.gouv.fr22Official

Is Revel 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 safety · range 45–61%
Skilled employee57%strong on work, weak on safety · range 49–65%
Student59%strong on education, weak on work · range 52–66%
Family51%strong on family, weak on cost · range 44–58%
Retirement57%strong on air quality, weak on admin · range 48–66%

Worked out from these numbers

What does a 60 m² flat cost?

About 460 EUR a month in cold rent at the published average of 7.66 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 Revel?

The unemployment rate is about 16.2 % (2022).

  • Unemployment rate: 16.18 % · INSEE RP2022 ACT1 — population active by type of activity, commune9
Unemployment across cities in FranceUnemployment in Revel is 16.2%. Of 2,240 cities with data, 898 have unemployment of 5 to under 10%.

Unemployment rate (%)

MetricValuePeriodSource
Gigabit broadband availability95.22 %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.4Official
Median gross salary (regional)2,575 EUR/month31 Dec 2022www.insee.fr23Official
Unemployment rate16.18 %country median 11.0%31 Dec 2022INSEE RP2022 ACT1 — population active by type of activity, commune9Official

What does a salary buy in Revel?

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€1,438of €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€7.66/m² · official · static.data.gouv.fr · 2025-12-31− €460
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€1,438
Take-home pay for other salaries and households Compare with another city Check a job offer in Revel Salary needed to live in Revel

Public employment service

No exact public employment office is currently linked to Revel. 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 Revel. Sources checked through 10 Aug 2026.

Family and education

MetricValuePeriodSource
Schools10 schools27 May 2026RNEE exact Code_commune; etat=OUVERT; code_nature 100-199 or 300-399; unique UAI count.20Official · commune
Primary schools7 count3 Aug 2026Ministère de l'Éducation nationale (data.education.gouv.fr)12Official
Schools12 count3 Aug 2026Ministère 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; Revel's school authority applies it locally.

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

Healthcare

MetricValuePeriodSource
Primary care doctors per 100,000 residents143.4 per 100,000 people31 Dec 2024INSEE BPE 2024 commune equipment and PMUN denominator evidence7Official
Hospital beds per 100,000 residents114.8 beds per 100,00031 Dec 2011DREES / DGOS – Statistique Annuelle des Établissements de Santé (SAE) 20113Official

Yes — migrants can receive medical care in Revel 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 residents114.8 beds per 100,000Verified 2026-08-03
Country rule verified 2026-08-03.

Safety

How safe is Revel?

Police recorded about 6,042 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 citiesRevel highlighted among comparable cities
Recorded crime across major cities with Revel 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
Revel6,042
MetricValuePeriodSource
Recorded incidents per 100,000 residents6,042 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)2Official

Mobility and administration

MetricValuePeriodSource
Destinations from nearest airport3 count3 Aug 2026OpenFlights16Official
Nearest airportDCM3 Aug 2026OurAirports19Official
Distance to nearest airport25 km3 Aug 2026OurAirports19Official

Language courses and integration

No exact city-level course record is currently published for Revel. 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
Open official information
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National programme information is not treated as proof of a course location in Revel.

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Climate and air quality

Annual PM2.5 was 8.55 µg/m³ in 2024. Annual PM10 was 12.4 µg/m³ in 2024.

Is the air quality good in Revel?

The annual PM2.5 mean is about 8.5 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: 8.55 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
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.

PM2.5 across cities in FranceAnnual PM2.5 in Revel is 8.6 µg/m³. Of 1,975 cities with data, 626 have annual PM2.5 of 8 to under 9 µg/m³.

Annual PM2.5 (µg/m³)

MetricValuePeriodSource
NO₂ — annual mean5.45 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 reading4.6 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.11Official
PM10 — annual mean12.43 µg/m³country median 14.220242024 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 mean8.55 µg/m³country median 8.5 — about the same20242024 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 18.36 · Feb 21.22 · Mar 24.91 · Apr 26.96 · May 33.76 · Jun 40.16 · Jul 39.12 · Aug 41.33 · Sep 35.17 · Oct 31.55 · Nov 24.53 · Dec 19.07 °C31 Dec 2001NASA POWER / NASA Langley Research Center14Official
Monthly extreme low temperatureJan -8.1 · Feb -11.72 · Mar -6.34 · Apr -1.63 · May 0.69 · Jun 4.42 · Jul 9.06 · Aug 8.99 · Sep 3.8 · Oct -4.51 · Nov -4.57 · Dec -8 °C31 Dec 2001NASA POWER / NASA Langley Research Center14Official
Average temperature by monthJan 4.87 · Feb 5.15 · Mar 8.49 · Apr 11.66 · May 15.31 · Jun 20.23 · Jul 22.95 · Aug 22.83 · Sep 18.85 · Oct 14.77 · Nov 8.82 · Dec 5.47 °C31 Dec 2001NASA POWER / NASA Langley Research Center14Official

Population and city profile

How many people live in Revel?

The published population was 9,762 people in January 2023. Source: INSEE populations légales 2023 par commune8

Who lives hereResidents by nationality, % of population

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

MetricValuePeriodSource
City area35.31 km²31 Dec 2026Séries historiques en 2023 — Recensement de la population, base des principaux indicateurs, communes de France hors Mayotte21Official
Foreign residents296 people2021Nationalité en 2021 — Base des tableaux détaillés — NAT115Official
Population density276.5 people/km²31 Dec 2023Séries historiques en 2023 — Recensement de la population, base des principaux indicateurs, communes de France hors Mayotte21Official
Population9,762 people1 Jan 2023INSEE populations légales 2023 par commune8Official

International community in Revel

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
Total9,762100.0%
Français9,385.37796.1%
Etranger376.6233.9%

Largest published groups; zero-count groups are omitted. Dimensions are source-native and are never merged. Official source10

Additional context

MetricValuePeriodSource
Universities0 count3 Aug 2026Ministère de l'Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche (data.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr)13Official

Alternatives for people set on Revel

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.

Labruguière as a Revel alternative in the same region

23 km away, better on 3 of 7 metrics measured the same way, worse on 1.

  • Recorded crime, per 100k: 3,081 Labruguière vs 6,042 Revel−49%
  • Unemployment: 11.0% Labruguière vs 16.2% Revel−32%
  • Nearest airport: 3.0 km Labruguière vs 25.0 km Revel−88%
  • Rent: €8.10/m² Labruguière vs €7.66/m² Revel+6%
  • Residents: 6,584 Labruguière vs 9,762 Revel−33%
  • Median gross pay, region: €2,575 Labruguière vs €2,575 Revelsame level
  • Annual PM2.5: 8.5 µg/m³ Labruguière vs 8.5 µg/m³ Revelsame level
Full comparisonMore about Labruguière

Massy as a Revel alternative in the same country

A move, not a commute, at 587 km, better on 4 of 6 metrics measured the same way, worse on 1. Rent cannot be compared like for like.

  • Hospital beds, per 100k: 776.4 Massy vs 114.8 Revel+576%
  • Residents: 51,729 Massy vs 9,762 Revel+430%
  • Unemployment: 9.7% Massy vs 16.2% Revel−40%
  • Median gross pay, region: €3,317 Massy vs €2,575 Revel+29%
  • Rent: €20.08/m² Massy vs €7.66/m² Revelno percentage
  • Nearest airport: 6.0 km Massy vs 25.0 km Revel−76%
  • Recorded crime, per 100k: 6,806 Massy vs 6,042 Revel+13%
Full comparisonMore about Massy

Cities near Revel

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

Castelnaudary 16.1 km away
Rent
8.44 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2025-12-31
Labruguière 22.7 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 Revel, nearest in population first.

All France cities
Bernay9,765 residentsMézidon Vallée d'Auge9,766 residentsGrand-Couronne9,768 residentsMontlhéry9,772 residentsBondues9,747 residentsAytré9,746 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 Revel?

The published population was 9,762 people in January 2023. Source: INSEE populations légales 2023 par commune.

How much does it cost to rent in Revel?

Average net cold rent is 7.66 EUR/m² per month (2025-Q3), excluding heating and operating charges. For a 70 m² flat that is about 536 EUR a month before utilities. Source: static.data.gouv.fr.

Is the air quality good in Revel?

The annual PM2.5 mean is about 8.5 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 Revel?

Police recorded about 6,042 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 Revel?

The unemployment rate is about 16.2 % (2022). Source: INSEE RP2022 ACT1 — population active by type of activity, commune.

What is the typical salary around Revel?

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

Is Revel a good place to live?

Revel 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 Revel?

Castelnaudary, Labruguière, Villefranche-de-Lauragais are near Revel. 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 Revel?

The official citizenship distribution records 9,385.377 people (96.1%) 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 = {Revel, France: population, rent, salary, cost of living},
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  year = {2026},
  date = {2026-10-16},
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}
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