Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
The town, home to 6,925 people, lies in Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur.
Sénas’s overall D puts it #68 of 99 in Bouches-du-Rhône. It comes out better than 15% of compared French towns. Buying in is costly: at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 8.8 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Incomes are on the low side: 0.5 jobs per working resident; 9.6% unemployment. Its strongest is walkability: just over four in five residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 11% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work.
Figures: amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · commuting and employment, INSEE census 2023 · 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 Sénas 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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Sénas has 1 historic monument on the Culture ministry’s list, none at the highest level (classé).
The oldest protected part dates from the 11th century; the first monument here was protected in 1997.
Georges Gueyraud, born in 1857, is the one person born in Sénas before 1900 that Wikidata records.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Sénas.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
Advertised rents are estimated at €13.34/m² a month, below Bouches-du-Rhône’s towns (€15.81/m²) but above compared French towns (€12.41/m²). A house rents for an estimated €11.88/m² a month. Between July 2023 and June 2026, buyers took 172 homes in Sénas.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €3,374/m² | 148 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
No commute at all: 2.9% of working residents in Sénas at the census. 9.6% of the labour force were unemployed, about level with Bouches-du-Rhône’s towns (9.4%) and below compared French towns (10.1%).
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
For 2025, the figures show 148 offenses in Sénas. Graded property crimes ran at 16.7 per 1,000 residents a year, and violence against people at 8.8 (2023–2025 average). Of the graded crimes here, family violence came up most often (2025).
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 · Small counts of armed robbery go unpublished (five or fewer in at least one of the last three years); the département’s average stands in, 0.6% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
Its heritage reaches back to the 11th century. Homes from before 1919 make up nearly a tenth 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
24% of residents are 65 or over, higher than both Bouches-du-Rhône’s towns (22%) and compared French towns (22%). Aged 15 to 24: 9.5% of residents. Half the people of Sénas are older than 45.2.
52% women, 48% men
About 94 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Bouches-du-Rhône 51.9%, France 51.8%.
| Sénas | Bouches-du-Rhône median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 17% | 17% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 9.5% | 10% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 23% | 23% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 26% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 24% | 22% | 22% |
| No diploma | 23% | 18% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 26% | 22% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 19% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 27% | 36% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Bouches-du-Rhône median and France median: the median of compared communes
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
From 2016 to 2025, 757 residents of Sénas died, against 743 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 2% more. Its care home for older people (101 places) counts its residents as Sénas’; allowing for it, deaths were 11% below expected. The nearest emergency department to Sénas is Chi de Cavaillon Lauris, 7 mi away. For a family doctor, residents of Sénas can choose among 9 GPs.
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 · Care-home places are adjusted for by TownRatings, using a model rather than an official statistic.
Other places to visit and heritage in and near Sénas. Best known first.
Sénas has one historic monument; beside it, the nearest classé monuments in other towns, within 15.5 mi.
Eglise paroissiale Saint-Amand: Photo: Véronique PAGNIER · Public domain
One notable person was born in Sénas.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sénas | 6,925 | — | D | D | C | B− |
| Cheval-Blanc Vaucluse | 4,362 | 3.9 | B− | D | A | B |
| Orgon | 2,762 | 4.1 | D | C− | C | D |
| Eyguières | 7,119 | 4.3 | C+ | D | B | C+ |
| Alleins | 2,852 | 4.8 | — | D | — | C |
| Mallemort | 6,166 | 5.3 | D | D | C+ | C |
| Plan-d'Orgon | 3,573 | 6.2 | D | D | C | D |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
It grades C for safety, #51 of 99 in Bouches-du-Rhône. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 24 burglaries and 28 acts of criminal damage.
Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns, so Sénas grades D for cost of living.
Commune in Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Sénas is a commune of 6,925 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.