Living in Saint-Malo
In Saint-Malo, rent averages €10.30 per m² a month (2024) and unemployment is 11.3% (2022).
Annual NO₂ was 7.05 µg/m³ in 2024. Annual PM10 was 16.3 µg/m³ in 2024. The foreign population count was 1,081 in 2021. For Saint-Malo, the unemployment rate was 11.3% at the end of 2022. Annual PM2.5 was 8.09 µg/m³ in 2024.
Cheaper rent than 68% of French cities that publish it, more recorded crime than 80% of French cities that publish it and cleaner air than 62% of French cities that publish it.
Which France-wide rules apply when you move to Saint-Malo?
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 Saint-Malo?
Average net cold rent is 10.3 EUR/m² per month (2024), 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): 10.3 EUR/m²/month · www.observatoires-des-loyers.org24
| Metric | Value | Period | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Internet, 60 Mbps unlimited | 42.99 EUR/month | 30 Sept 2026 | Orange Livebox Fibre18Official · national market |
| Mobile plan, 10 GB | 19.99 EUR/month | 30 Sept 2026 | Orange 100GB mobile plan17Official · national market |
| G02 Vacancy Rate Pct | 2,012 % | 31 Dec 2023 | INSEE6Official |
| Dwellings | 38,206 dwellings | 31 Dec 2023 | INSEE7Official |
| G05 Main Residential Dwellings | 25,835 dwellings | 31 Dec 2023 | INSEE7Official |
| Average net rent (nettokalt) | 10.3 EUR/m²/monthcountry median €11.60 | 31 Dec 2024 | www.observatoires-des-loyers.org24Official |
Is Saint-Malo 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 618 EUR a month in cold rent at the published average of 10.3 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 Saint-Malo?
The unemployment rate is about 11.3 % (2022).
- Unemployment rate: 11.31 % · INSEE RP2022 ACT1 — population active by type of activity, commune10
Saint-Malo 11.3%
Unemployment rate (%)
| Metric | Value | Period | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fibre-to-the-building availability | 95.9 % | 3 Aug 2026 | Arcep (Autorité de régulation des communications électroniques, des postes et de la distribution de la presse)2Official |
| Gigabit broadband availability | 95.9 % | 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.5Official |
| Median gross salary (regional) | 2,570 EUR/month | 31 Dec 2022 | www.insee.fr23Official |
| Unemployment rate | 11.31 %country median 11.0% | 31 Dec 2022 | INSEE RP2022 ACT1 — population active by type of activity, commune10Official |
What does a salary buy in Saint-Malo?
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. | €1,961 |
| Rent, 60 m²€10.30/m² · official · observatoires-des-loyers.org · 2024-12-31 | − €618 |
| 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 | €1,280 |
Public employment service
No exact public employment office is currently linked to Saint-Malo. 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 Saint-Malo. Sources checked through 10 Aug 2026.
Family and education
| Metric | Value | Period | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Primary School Count | 22 count | 3 Aug 2026 | Ministère de l'Éducation nationale (data.education.gouv.fr)13Official |
| School Count | 44 count | 3 Aug 2026 | Ministère 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; Saint-Malo's school authority applies it locally.
Sources: eurydice.eacea.ec.europa.eu · 2025–2026.
Healthcare
| Metric | Value | Period | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hospital beds per 100,000 residents | 978.8 beds per 100,000 | 31 Dec 2011 | DREES / DGOS – Statistique Annuelle des Établissements de Santé (SAE) 20114Official |
Yes — migrants can receive medical care in Saint-Malo 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 Saint-Malo?
Police recorded about 6,369 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 | 6,369 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 Saint-Malo. 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
Is the air quality good in Saint-Malo?
The annual PM2.5 mean is about 8.1 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: 8.09 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
hours
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.
Saint-Malo 8.1
Annual PM2.5 (µg/m³)
| Metric | Value | Period | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| NO₂ — annual mean | 7.05 µg/m³country median 14.8 | 2024 | 2024 validated hourly NO2 station observations transformed to the exact INSEE commune centre by deterministic nearest-station selection and equal-weight aggregation.1Official |
| NO₂ — latest reading | 8.1 µg/m³ | 15 Jul 2026 | Latest 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 |
| PM10 — annual mean | 16.3 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 | 8.09 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 9.1 · Feb 9.8 · Mar 12.2 · Apr 14.5 · May 17.3 · Jun 20.2 · Jul 22.1 · Aug 22.3 · Sep 20.3 · Oct 16.5 · Nov 12.4 · Dec 9.7 °C | 1991–2020 | WMO Climatological Normals 1991-2020 — station DINARD22Official · nearest-station reading |
| Average night-time low by month | Jan 3.8 · Feb 3.6 · Mar 4.9 · Apr 6.2 · May 9.1 · Jun 11.8 · Jul 13.6 · Aug 13.7 · Sep 11.8 · Oct 9.7 · Nov 6.5 · Dec 4.2 °C | 1991–2020 | WMO Climatological Normals 1991-2020 — station DINARD22Official · nearest-station reading |
| Average temperature by month | Jan 6.5 · Feb 6.7 · Mar 8.5 · Apr 10.3 · May 13.2 · Jun 16 · Jul 17.8 · Aug 18 · Sep 16 · Oct 13.1 · Nov 9.5 · Dec 6.9 °C | 1991–2020 | WMO Climatological Normals 1991-2020 — station DINARD22Official · nearest-station reading |
| Average precipitation by month | Jan 64 · Feb 56 · Mar 47.6 · Apr 53.9 · May 56 · Jun 54.1 · Jul 46.1 · Aug 58.3 · Sep 60.2 · Oct 81.3 · Nov 89 · Dec 85.5 mm | 1991–2020 | WMO Climatological Normals 1991-2020 — station DINARD22Official · nearest-station reading |
| Average sunshine by month | Jan 68 · Feb 91 · Mar 132 · Apr 178 · May 202 · Jun 207 · Jul 220 · Aug 201 · Sep 170 · Oct 114 · Nov 79 · Dec 65 hours | 1991–2020 | WMO Climatological Normals 1991-2020 — station DINARD22Official · nearest-station reading |
Annual PM2.5 fell 19.1% between 2021 and 2024, from 10.0 to 8.1.
Similar climate. In France: Le Havre ±1.2 °C. Elsewhere: Portsmouth (United Kingdom) ±0.7 °C, Saanich (Canada) ±1.3 °C, Bexley (United Kingdom) ±0.6 °C, Westminster (United Kingdom) ±0.6 °C, Islington (United Kingdom) ±0.6 °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 36.6 km² in 2026. Population density was 1,296.9 people per km² in 2023.
How many people live in Saint-Malo?
The published population was 47,439 people in 2023. Source: INSEE — Populations légales 2023, Saint-Malo (commune 35288)8
By nationality
National passport97.7%
Calculated from the population and foreign-resident facts on this page.
| Metric | Value | Period | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| City area | 36.58 km² | 31 Dec 2026 | Séries historiques en 2023 — Recensement de la population, base des principaux indicateurs, communes de France hors Mayotte20Official |
| Foreign residents | 1,081 people | 2021 | Nationalité en 2021 — Base des tableaux détaillés — NAT115Official |
| Population density | 1,297 people/km² | 31 Dec 2023 | Séries historiques en 2023 — Recensement de la population, base des principaux indicateurs, communes de France hors Mayotte20Official |
| Population | 47,439 people | 1 Jan 2023 | INSEE — Populations légales 2023, Saint-Malo (commune 35288)8Official |
International community in Saint-Malo
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 | 47,439 | 100.0% |
| Français | 46,282.004 | 97.6% |
| Etranger | 1,156.996 | 2.4% |
Largest published groups; zero-count groups are omitted. Dimensions are source-native and are never merged. Official source11
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)14Official |
Alternatives for people set on Saint-Malo
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.
Pleurtuit as a Saint-Malo alternative in the same region
8 km away, better on 2 of 5 metrics measured the same way, worse on 0. Rent cannot be compared like for like.
- Recorded crime, per 100k: 2,823 Pleurtuit vs 6,369 Saint-Malo−56%
- Rent: €12.15/m² (2025) Pleurtuit vs €10.30/m² (2024) Saint-Malono percentage
- Unemployment: 8.0% Pleurtuit vs 11.3% Saint-Malo−29%
- Residents: 7,167 Pleurtuit vs 47,439 Saint-Malo−85%
- Median gross pay, region: €2,570 Pleurtuit vs €2,570 Saint-Malosame level
- Annual PM2.5: 8.1 µg/m³ Pleurtuit vs 8.1 µg/m³ Saint-Malosame level
Sartrouville as a Saint-Malo alternative in the same country
A move, not a commute, at 309 km, better on 3 of 6 metrics measured the same way, worse on 2. Rent cannot be compared like for like.
- Nearest airport: 18.0 km Sartrouville vs 8.0 km Saint-Malo+125%
- Median gross pay, region: €3,317 Sartrouville vs €2,570 Saint-Malo+29%
- Rent: €20.51/m² (2025) Sartrouville vs €10.30/m² (2024) Saint-Malono percentage
- Recorded crime, per 100k: 4,581 Sartrouville vs 6,369 Saint-Malo−28%
- Annual PM2.5: 9.7 µg/m³ Sartrouville vs 8.1 µg/m³ Saint-Malo+20%
- Unemployment: 10.5% Sartrouville vs 11.3% Saint-Malo−7%
- Residents: 52,763 Sartrouville vs 47,439 Saint-Malo+11%
Cities near Saint-Malo
Published cities within 25 km, nearest first. Distances are straight-line.
- Rent
- 12.03 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2025-12-31
- Rent
- 12.15 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2025-12-31
- Rent
- 10.3 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2024-12-31
- Rent
- 10.51 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2025-12-31
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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 Saint-Malo?
The published population was 47,439 people in 2023. Source: INSEE — Populations légales 2023, Saint-Malo (commune 35288).
How much does it cost to rent in Saint-Malo?
Average net cold rent is 10.3 EUR/m² per month (2024), excluding heating and operating charges. For a 70 m² flat that is about 721 EUR a month before utilities. Source: www.observatoires-des-loyers.org.
Is the air quality good in Saint-Malo?
The annual PM2.5 mean is about 8.1 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 Saint-Malo?
Police recorded about 6,369 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 Saint-Malo?
The unemployment rate is about 11.3 % (2022). Source: INSEE RP2022 ACT1 — population active by type of activity, commune.
What is the typical salary around Saint-Malo?
The median gross salary is 2,570 EUR/month. Source: www.insee.fr.
Is Saint-Malo a good place to live?
Saint-Malo 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 Saint-Malo?
Dinard, Pleurtuit, Cancale, Dol-de-Bretagne are near Saint-Malo. Typed relationship labels are shown where published; other rows use straight-line distance from admitted coordinates.
How many people are in the Total citizenship group in Saint-Malo?
The official citizenship distribution records 47,439 people (100.0%) 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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