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4,595 residents make their home in this town in Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur.
More weak spots than strong ones. Jobs and pay trail most towns: 0.6 jobs per working resident; 12.0% unemployment. Cabannes’s overall grade is D, better than 6% of compared French towns. Its place in the ranking is #91 of 99 in Bouches-du-Rhône. Health is a weak point: after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 5% above expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. Getting around on foot or by bus is easy (B): 82% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 7% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. A 70 m² home at the median €2,850/m² costs 7.8 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the Communauté d'agglomération Terre de Provence.
Figures: amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · commuting and employment, INSEE census 2023 · deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025) · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas. The overall grade uses the other six subjects.
Each subject compares Cabannes with other French towns of 2,500 or more, ordered by how far its rank is from the middle. American and UK towns are graded separately.
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The one thing Cabannes does most differently from other towns.
The Culture ministry lists 2 historic monuments in Cabannes, none of them classé, France’s highest protection.
The oldest protected part dates from the 13th century; the first monument here was protected in 2010.
The Culture ministry lists 2 historic monuments in Cabannes, none of them classé, France’s highest protection.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Cabannes.
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
France’s death rates at each age would predict 413 deaths in Cabannes from 2016 to 2025; there were 477, 15% more. Adjusted for age and care homes, Cabannes records 105 deaths per 100 expected, higher than both Bouches-du-Rhône’s towns (88) and compared French towns (88). This Bouches-du-Rhône town has 3 family doctors. Also worth knowing: in Bouches-du-Rhône, life expectancy at birth reaches 86 years for women and 81 for men (2025), next to 85.9 and 80.3 for France.
Source: INSEE, deaths by commune of residence 2016–2025 and censuses; Eurostat, death rates by age (© European Union); INSEE, BPE 2025; DREES, APL 2024; INSEE, life expectancy by département 2025 · Licence Ouverte · The care-home adjustment is a TownRatings modeling step, not an official statistic.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
Advertised rents are estimated at €13.76/m² a month, between Bouches-du-Rhône’s towns (€15.81/m²) and compared French towns (€12.41/m²). Renting a house costs an estimated €11.62/m² a month. The market in Cabannes: 120 sales of houses and apartments between July 2023 and June 2026.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €3,035/m² | 101 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Ranked by results, schools here are #82 of 96 in Bouches-du-Rhône. For collège, the closest is 2.6 mi away.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Françoise DoltoNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 116 | 85%−4 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
At the census, 7.1% went to work on foot, by bike or by public transport, below both Bouches-du-Rhône’s towns (9.7%) and compared French towns (13.4%). Unemployment runs at 12.0%.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
Protection here reaches back to the 13th century. Homes from before 1919 make up 10% of the total, higher than both Bouches-du-Rhône’s towns (6.9%) and compared French towns (7.4%).
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
In 2025, criminal damage led the graded crimes in Cabannes. Over 2025, Cabannes logged 80 recorded offenses. Violence against people ran at 5.9 per 1,000 residents a year and the graded property crimes at 14.1 (2023–2025 average).
Not in the gradeTheft without violence, drug use and fraud are shown for information but left out of the Safety Grade, which counts violence plus burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and criminal damage per resident.
Source: SSMSI (Interior Ministry), recorded crime by commune, 2023–2025 · Licence Ouverte · When sexual violence, armed robbery and vehicle theft number five or fewer in a recent year, the figure is withheld, and the index uses the département’s average instead (10.1% of the index here). With more than 10% of the index estimated that way, this Safety Grade is less sure than most. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
At 45, the median resident of Cabannes sits in the middle of the age range. People 65 and over make up 21% of the town. Young adults of 15 to 24 are one in ten residents, in line with Bouches-du-Rhône’s towns (10%) and compared French towns (11%).
52% women, 48% men
About 91 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Bouches-du-Rhône 51.9%, France 51.8%.
| Cabannes | Bouches-du-Rhône median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 17% | 17% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 10% | 10% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 23% | 23% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 29% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 21% | 22% | 22% |
| No diploma | 25% | 18% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 25% | 22% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 19% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 26% | 36% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Bouches-du-Rhône median and France median: the median of compared communes
Heritage, family days out and museums in and near Cabannes. Best known first.
Monastery or conventChartreuse de Bonpas3.9 km northwest, in Caumont-sur-DuranceArchaeological siteArchaeological siteJardin Romain3.8 km north, in Caumont-sur-DuranceZooZooL'Arche de Méo4.9 km south, in MollégèsMuseumMuseumMusée Jean Moulin "Souvenir de mon pays"2.8 km south, in Saint-AndiolPhotos from Wikimedia Commons, each under its own licence (our copy, resized).
Wikidata has nobody with a French article born in Cabannes yet.
Commune in Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Cabannes is a commune of 4,595 people in the Communauté d'agglomération Terre de Provence. TownRatings compares communes, France’s local unit: each has its own mayor and its own statistics. Its area takes in the town and the countryside around it.
Built from INSEE’s 2026 official geography (COG) and IGN Admin Express boundaries
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more. The map uses IGN’s commune boundaries. See them on the map →
| Town | People | Miles | Overall | Cost | Safety | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cabannes | 4,595 | — | D | C− | B | D |
| Saint-Andiol | 3,353 | 1.8 | C+ | C− | B | A− |
| Caumont-sur-Durance Vaucluse | 5,667 | 2.5 | C− | D | B | C+ |
| Noves | 6,080 | 2.6 | C | C− | C | C+ |
| Mollégès | 2,647 | 3.7 | — | D | — | B |
| Plan-d'Orgon | 3,573 | 4.1 | D | D | C | D |
| Cavaillon Vaucluse | 25,636 | 4.7 | D | C | C | C− |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
It grades B for safety, #25 of 99 in Bouches-du-Rhône. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 22 burglaries and 27 acts of criminal damage.
They grade C−, better than 21% of compared French towns and #82 of 96 in Bouches-du-Rhône. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns, so Cabannes grades C− for cost of living.
Sources: INSEE, census 2023 (population, employment, commuting) · INSEE, Filosofi 2023 (income per consumption unit, poverty) · DGFiP, DVF property sales, July 2023 to June 2026 · Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025 · SSMSI, recorded crime by commune, 2023–2025 · Ministry of Education (DEPP), brevet and bac results and value-added indicators, 2025 · INSEE, deaths by commune of residence 2016–2025 and censuses 2012–2023; Eurostat, death rates by age (© European Union); INSEE, BPE 2025 (care homes, emergency and maternity units, GPs, pharmacies); DREES, APL 2024; INSEE, life expectancy by département 2025 (provisional) · INSEE, BPE 2025 and Filosofi 200 m grid (walking distances) · IGN Admin Express (boundaries) · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranking French towns against each other only, updated November 4, 2026. 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.