Find your town in Alpes-de-Haute-Provence
Alpes-de-Haute-Provence has 198 towns and villages, each with its page. Its 15 towns of 2,500 or more are graded against towns across France on cost of living, safety, schools, health and more; 20 of 1,000 to 2,499 have subject grades.
What Alpes-de-Haute-Provence is like
The median ranked town in Alpes-de-Haute-Provence grades highest on walkability and safety against towns across France, and lowest on cost of living. Choose a subject to find the towns that do best on it.
0 of 15 (0%) grade A− or better, against 25% of French towns.
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15 towns · ordered by Alpes-de-Haute-Provence rank
5 of these towns have a Safety Grade with a caution: between 10% and 25% of their index uses the département’s average for crimes too few to publish.
183 smaller towns and villages in Alpes-de-Haute-Provence
With the 15 towns of 2,500 or more above, these are all 198 communes of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, A to Z. Towns of 1,000 to 2,499 have subject grades on their page (the figure is the population); villages under 1,000 have their page with the figures, without grades. The search at the top finds these too.
163 villages under 1,000 people, A to Z: their page, no grades
Départements next to Alpes-de-Haute-Provence
The départements that share a border with it: each one’s communes, and how many of its towns have an overall grade.
Questions about Alpes-de-Haute-Provence
What is the best place to live in Alpes-de-Haute-Provence?
Pierrevert ranks first of 15 graded towns of 2,500 or more: safety (A+) and health (B+) are its strongest grades; cost of living (C−) is its lowest. Peyruis and Forcalquier follow.
How do the biggest towns in Alpes-de-Haute-Provence grade?
Manosque (22,718 people) grades C− overall, with its best grade in walkability. Digne-les-Bains (17,979 people) grades C+ overall, with its best grade in walkability.
How are these towns ranked?
By the overall grade, which blends six graded subjects (cost of living, safety, schools, health, jobs and income, walkability) from public data, each comparing a town with every French town of 1,000 or more. The rank is among the towns of 2,500 or more in Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, where five or more have an overall grade.
Is every commune in Alpes-de-Haute-Provence on TownRatings?
Yes: all 198 have their page, listed on this page. Grading depends on size: the 15 towns of 2,500 or more get every grade we can give them, the 20 of 1,000 to 2,499 get subject grades, and the 163 villages under 1,000 have their page with the figures, without grades.
Photos: Pierrevert, Rainbow0413 (CC BY-SA 3.0) · Peyruis, Rainbow0413 (CC BY-SA 3.0) · Forcalquier, Forcalquier (CC BY-SA 3.0) · Les Mées, Rainbow0413 (CC BY-SA 3.0) · Digne-les-Bains, Jean-Christophe BENOIST (CC BY 3.0) · Sisteron, Régis Martel (CC BY-SA 3.0) · Valensole, Farfalinetti (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Château-Arnoux-Saint-Auban, MOSSOT (CC BY 3.0) · Barcelonnette, Twice25 & Rinina25 (CC BY 2.5) · Volx, Sébastien Thébault (CC BY-SA 3.0) · Oraison, Rainbow0413 (CC BY-SA 3.0) · Villeneuve, zaizone, mapcomplete (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Sainte-Tulle, Yves Amate (CC BY-SA 3.0) · Manosque, Thythy (CC BY-SA 3.0) · Gréoux-les-Bains, Sebleouf (CC BY-SA 4.0), via Wikimedia Commons.
Sources: TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranking French towns against each other only, run #47 of October 30, 2026 · INSEE, census 2023 (population). Under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab).
Contains public sector information under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab): INSEE, DGFiP, the Interior Ministry’s statistics service (SSMSI), the Ministry of Education (DEPP), the Health Ministry’s statistics service (DREES) and the Housing Ministry (Carte des loyers). Commune boundaries: IGN Admin Express.