Living in Valréas

In Valréas, advertised rents for new lettings average €8.05 per m² a month (2025) and unemployment is 12.5% (2022).

Valréas is a city in France, with a population of 9,224 at the start of 2023. Gigabit broadband availability was 96.1% in March 2026. The city covered 57.97 km² in 2026 and had a population density of 159.1 people per km² in 2023. The unemployment rate was 12.5% at the end of 2022.

Last checked 2026-09-2427 sources

Population9,224people1 Jan 2023Official source · INSEE populations légales 2023 par commune

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

Average net rent8.05EUR/m²/monthcountry median €11.60 — 31% belowOfficial source · static.data.gouv.fr

Unemployment rate12.49%country median 11.0% — 14% aboveOfficial source · INSEE RP2022 ACT1 — population active by type of activity, commune

Recorded crime4,270incidents per 100,000country median 4,740 — 10% belowOfficial source · Base statistique communale de la délinquance enregistrée par la police et la gendarmerie nationales, 2025 (géographie 2026)

PM2.5, annual mean5µg/m³country median 8.5 — 41% belowOfficial source · European Environment Agency

Cheaper rent than 91% of French cities that publish it, higher unemployment than 62% of French cities that publish it and less recorded crime than 61% of French cities that publish it.

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

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 Valréas.Healthcare eligibilityCountry-wide insurance and residence conditions.

Housing and cost

How much does it cost to rent in Valréas?

Average net cold rent is 8.05 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): 8.05 EUR/m²/month · static.data.gouv.fr¹⁹

What recurs every month2 published recurring costs, € per month

€ / month

Internet, 60 Mbps€43

Mobile plan, 10 GB€20

Net rent across major citiesValréas highlighted among comparable cities

net rent, € / m² / month

Paris€26.30

Nice€20.43

Lyon€16.57

Marseille€16.30

Toulouse€13.98

Valréas€8.05

Show the other 6 cities

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 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)	736 %	31 Dec 2023	INSEE⁶Official
Dwellings	5,137 dwellings	31 Dec 2023	INSEE⁷Official
Main residence dwellings	4,167 dwellings	31 Dec 2023	INSEE⁷Official
Average net rent (nettokalt)	8.05 EUR/m²/monthcountry median €11.60	31 Dec 2025	static.data.gouv.fr¹⁹Official

Is Valréas 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 employee53%strong on work, weak on safety · range 45–61%

Student50%strong on education, weak on work · range 43–57%

Family45%strong on family, weak on cost · range 38–52%

Retirement56%strong on air quality, weak on admin · range 47–65%

Worked out from these numbers

What does a 60 m² flat cost?

About 483 EUR a month in cold rent at the published average of 8.05 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 Valréas?

The unemployment rate is about 12.5 % (2022).

Unemployment rate: 12.49 % · INSEE RP2022 ACT1 — population active by type of activity, commune⁹

Unemployment across cities in FranceUnemployment in Valréas is 12.5%. Of 2,240 cities with data, 898 have unemployment of 5 to under 10%.

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Valréas 12.5%

Unemployment rate (%)

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Fibre-to-the-building availability	96.08 %	3 Aug 2026	Arcep (Autorité de régulation des communications électroniques, des postes et de la distribution de la presse)¹Official
Gigabit broadband availability	96.08 %	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)	2,630 EUR/month	31 Dec 2022	www.insee.fr²⁰Official
Unemployment rate	12.49 %country median 11.0%	31 Dec 2022	INSEE RP2022 ACT1 — population active by type of activity, commune⁹Official

What does a salary buy in Valréas?

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

Left over each month€1,455of €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€8.05/m² · official · static.data.gouv.fr · 2025-12-31	− €483
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	€1,455

Take-home pay for other salaries and households Compare with another city Check a job offer in Valréas Salary needed to live in Valréas

Public employment service

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

Country-level information

France Travail — Public employment service

France Travail

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

Family and education

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Primary schools	3 count	3 Aug 2026	Ministère de l'Éducation nationale (data.education.gouv.fr)¹¹Official
Schools	7 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; Valréas'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	303.6 beds per 100,000	31 Dec 2011	DREES / DGOS – Statistique Annuelle des Établissements de Santé (SAE) 2011³Official

Yes — migrants can receive medical care in Valréas 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 residents303.6 beds per 100,000Verified 2026-08-03

Country rule verified 2026-08-03.

Safety

How safe is Valréas?

Police recorded about 4,270 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 citiesValréas 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

Valréas4,270

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Recorded incidents per 100,000 residents	4,270 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

Mobility and administration

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Nearest airport	OBS	3 Aug 2026	OurAirports¹⁷Official
Distance to nearest airport	52 km	3 Aug 2026	OurAirports¹⁷Official

Language courses and integration

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

Open the full France section

National programme information is not treated as proof of a course location in Valréas.

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Climate and air quality

Is the air quality good in Valréas?

The annual PM2.5 mean is 5 µg/m³ (2024) — within the WHO 2021 guideline. Source: European Environment Agency⁴

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

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

PM2.55WHO 5 · EU 25

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 Valréas is 5.0 µg/m³. Of 1,975 cities with data, 626 have annual PM2.5 of 8 to under 9 µg/m³.

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Valréas 5.0

Annual PM2.5 (µg/m³)

Metric	Value	Period	Source
PM2.5 — annual mean	5 µg/m³country median 8.5	31 Dec 2024	European Environment Agency⁴Official
Monthly extreme high temperature	Jan 15.73 · Feb 18.22 · Mar 21.68 · Apr 25.66 · May 30.6 · Jun 39.25 · Jul 38.31 · Aug 39.97 · Sep 33.88 · Oct 28.22 · Nov 20.29 · Dec 15.43 °C	31 Dec 2001	NASA POWER / NASA Langley Research Center¹³Official
Monthly extreme low temperature	Jan -11.01 · Feb -13.39 · Mar -10.74 · Apr -2.54 · May 0.99 · Jun 4.63 · Jul 8.4 · Aug 8.55 · Sep 3.07 · Oct -2.95 · Nov -5.62 · Dec -10.78 °C	31 Dec 2001	NASA POWER / NASA Langley Research Center¹³Official
Average temperature by month	Jan 2.4 · Feb 3.04 · Mar 6.72 · Apr 10.53 · May 14.55 · Jun 19.66 · Jul 22.55 · Aug 21.94 · Sep 17.18 · Oct 12.58 · Nov 6.87 · Dec 3.15 °C	31 Dec 2001	NASA POWER / NASA Langley Research Center¹³Official

Annual PM2.5 over time11 published observations, 2014–2024

4.8

5.6

6.4

7.2

5.0201420162018202020222024

Annual PM2.5 fell 28.6% between 2014 and 2024, from 7.0 to 5.0.

Population and city profile

How many people live in Valréas?

The published population was 9,224 people in January 2023. Source: INSEE populations légales 2023 par commune⁸

Who lives hereResidents by nationality, % of population

By nationality

National passport90.2%

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

Metric	Value	Period	Source
City area	57.97 km²	31 Dec 2026	Séries historiques en 2023 — Recensement de la population, base des principaux indicateurs, communes de France hors Mayotte¹⁸Official
Foreign residents	906 people	2021	Nationalité en 2021 — Base des tableaux détaillés — NAT1¹⁴Official
Population density	159.1 people/km²	31 Dec 2023	Séries historiques en 2023 — Recensement de la population, base des principaux indicateurs, communes de France hors Mayotte¹⁸Official
Population	9,224 people	1 Jan 2023	INSEE populations légales 2023 par commune⁸Official

International community in Valréas

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	9,224	100.0%
Français	8,346	90.5%
Etranger	878	9.5%

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 Valréas

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.

Sartrouville as a Valréas alternative in the same country

A move, not a commute, at 551 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 9,224 Valréas+472%
Median gross pay, region: €3,317 Sartrouville vs €2,630 Valréas+26%
Rent: €20.51/m² Sartrouville vs €8.05/m² Valréasno percentage
Nearest airport: 18.0 km Sartrouville vs 52.0 km Valréas−65%
Unemployment: 10.5% Sartrouville vs 12.5% Valréas−16%
Recorded crime, per 100k: 4,581 Sartrouville vs 4,270 Valréas+7%

Full comparison More about Sartrouville

Cities near Valréas

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

Nyons 12.2 km away

Rent: 9.99 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2025-12-31

Vaison-la-Romaine 17.3 km away

Rent: 9.77 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2025-12-31

Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux 18.1 km away

Rent: 9.78 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2025-12-31

Bollène 22.4 km away

Rent: 9.15 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2025-12-31

Donzère 23.2 km away

Rent: 8.51 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2025-12-31

Pierrelatte 23.4 km away

Rent: 10.07 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2025-12-31

Alternative cities in France

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

All France cities

Le Crès9,226 residents Dardilly9,221 residents Ouistreham9,212 residents Sarzeau9,212 residents Fontaine-lès-Dijon9,252 residents Condé-sur-l'Escaut9,253 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 Valréas?

The published population was 9,224 people in January 2023. Source: INSEE populations légales 2023 par commune.

How much does it cost to rent in Valréas?

Average net cold rent is 8.05 EUR/m² per month (2025-Q3), excluding heating and operating charges. For a 70 m² flat that is about 564 EUR a month before utilities. Source: static.data.gouv.fr.

Is the air quality good in Valréas?

The annual PM2.5 mean is 5 µg/m³ (2024) — within the WHO 2021 guideline. Source: European Environment Agency.

How safe is Valréas?

What is the unemployment rate in Valréas?

The unemployment rate is about 12.5 % (2022). Source: INSEE RP2022 ACT1 — population active by type of activity, commune.

What is the typical salary around Valréas?

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

Is Valréas a good place to live?

Valréas 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 Valréas?

Nyons, Vaison-la-Romaine, Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux, Bollène, Donzère are near Valréas. 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 Valréas?

The official citizenship distribution records 8,346 people (90.5%) 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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  title = {Valréas, France: population, rent, salary, cost of living},
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  year = {2026},
  date = {2026-10-16},
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