Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
The town, home to 8,479 people, lies in Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur.
A good place to live, if you can afford it. With a B+ overall, Éguilles sits #7 of 99 in Bouches-du-Rhône. That leaves it better than 68% of compared French towns. Residents are healthier than most (A+): after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 37% below expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. Households here earn well: 0.8 jobs per working resident; 8.2% unemployment. Prices are high against local incomes: at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 14.6 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. The rest of its grades are middling: B− for safety and B for walkability.
Figures: deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025) · employment and commuting, INSEE census 2023 · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · recorded crime, SSMSI (Ministry of the Interior) · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas. The overall grade uses the other six subjects.
The 2 things Éguilles does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Éguilles 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.
How TownRatings grades French towns →
The Culture ministry’s list holds 2 historic monuments in Éguilles; none is classé, France’s top protection.
The oldest protected part dates from the 17th century; the first monument here was protected in 1970.
Other places to visit, heritage and museums in and near Éguilles. Best known first.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Éguilles.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
Advertised rents are estimated at €17.48/m² a month, higher than both Bouches-du-Rhône’s towns (€15.81/m²) and compared French towns (€12.41/m²). Apartments in Éguilles sell for €3,976/m², houses for €6,205/m². Also worth knowing: this Bouches-du-Rhône town recorded 249 home sales from July 2023 to June 2026.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €6,205/m² | 178 |
| Apartments | €3,976/m² | 71 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
513 deaths in Éguilles between 2016 and 2025, where France’s rates at each age predict 748: 31% below. Women in Bouches-du-Rhône live to 86 on average and men to 81 (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 across France. There are 20 general practitioners locally.
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 · This figure includes a care-home adjustment that TownRatings models; no official statistic exists.
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
The earliest of these monuments dates from the 17th century. Homes from before 1919 make up 7.6% of the total, about level with compared French towns (7.4%) and above Bouches-du-Rhône’s towns (6.9%).
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
Nearly a tenth of the labour force were unemployed, lower than both Bouches-du-Rhône’s towns (9.4%) and compared French towns (10.1%). At the census, 6.1% of working residents in Éguilles didn’t travel to work at all. The census found 8.6% of commuters going to work on foot, by bike or by public transport.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
More of the graded crimes in Éguilles were criminal damage than anything else (2025). The 2025 count: 166 offenses in the town. Graded property crimes ran at 16.5 per 1,000 residents a year, and violence against people at 4.6 (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 armed robbery number five or fewer in a recent year, the figure is withheld, and the index uses the département’s average instead (1.4% of the index here). The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Young adults of 15 to 24 are nearly one in ten residents, below both Bouches-du-Rhône’s towns (10%) and compared French towns (11%). The under-15s are 18% of the population here. Ages in Éguilles split evenly at 44.6: half are older, half younger.
52% women, 48% men
About 93 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Bouches-du-Rhône 51.9%, France 51.8%.
| Éguilles | Bouches-du-Rhône median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 18% | 17% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 8.7% | 10% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 24% | 23% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 27% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 22% | 22% | 22% |
| No diploma | 8.3% | 18% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 13% | 22% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 15% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 60% | 36% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Bouches-du-Rhône median and France median: the median of compared communes
The list names few of Éguilles’ 2 monuments; beside them, the nearest classé monuments in other towns, within 15.5 mi.
Oppidum celto-ligure: Photo: Odejea · CC BY-SA 4.0
Wikidata places 2 people here, but for none of them do the articles confirm Éguilles as the birthplace, so nobody is listed.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Éguilles | 8,479 | — | B+ | D− | B− | A+ |
| Ventabren | 5,839 | 3.4 | B | D− | C | A |
| Saint-Cannat | 6,097 | 4.6 | C | D− | B | B− |
| Aix-en-Provence | 149,695 | 4.6 | B− | D− | C− | B+ |
| Coudoux | 3,825 | 5.4 | — | D− | — | A |
| Velaux | 8,941 | 5.8 | B+ | D− | B+ | C+ |
| Venelles | 8,418 | 6.5 | A | D− | B+ | A |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
It grades B− for safety, #37 of 99 in Bouches-du-Rhône. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 27 burglaries and 57 acts of criminal damage.
Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Éguilles grades D− for cost of living.
Commune in Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Éguilles is a commune of 8,479 people in the Métropole d'Aix-Marseille-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
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.