Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
The town has 7,942 residents and lies in Pyrénées-Orientales, Occitanie.
Le Soler grades D overall, better than 8% of compared French towns. It ranks #32 of 43 in Pyrénées-Orientales. The weak point is health: after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 10% above expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. Jobs and pay trail most towns: 0.7 jobs per working resident; 13.7% unemployment. Homes sell for a median €2,386/m²: 70 m² comes to 7.4 years of the median income per consumption unit in the Communauté urbaine Perpignan Méditerranée Métropole. Where it does best is walkability: just over four in five residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 9% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. Elsewhere it is close to typical: B− for safety and C+ for schools.
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 · recorded crime, SSMSI (Ministry of the Interior) · brevet and bac results, Ministry of Education.
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 Le Soler 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 Culture ministry lists no building in Le Soler as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Église de l'Assomption-de-la-Vierge, in Toulouges, 1.9 mi away.
4.5% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Le Soler.
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
Le Soler has 6 family doctors. Life expectancy in Pyrénées-Orientales: 85.5 years for women and 78.9 for men (2025); France averages 85.9 and 80.3. 1,170 deaths here between 2016 and 2025, where France’s rates at each age predict 887: 32% above.
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 figures behind this are our own model (TownRatings), not official statistics.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
Behind the median of €2,386/m²: 241 houses and apartments sold in Le Soler between July 2023 and June 2026. A house rents for an estimated €10.71/m² a month. Of the homes sold, 92% were houses.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €2,429/m² | 221 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
13.7% of the labour force were unemployed, below Pyrénées-Orientales’ towns (14.7%) but above compared French towns (10.1%). Per consumption unit, the median disposable income is €23,970 a year. Bus, tram or train carried 2.9% of working residents in Le Soler to work at the census.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
General-bac pupils go 4.5 mi to the nearest lycée. The nearest collège is 0.8 mi away. On results, collèges and lycées here come #27 of 46 in Pyrénées-Orientales.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Jules VerneNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 123 | 81%−6 pts |
| Collège François MitterrandBest against expectations: 8 points above the expected rateCollège | Collège | 165 | 100%+8 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Children under 15 make up 17%, above Pyrénées-Orientales’ towns (16%) and close to compared French towns (17%). 24% of residents have reached 65. The 15-to-24 age group makes up 11% of residents.
54% women, 46% men
About 87 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Pyrénées-Orientales 52.6%, France 51.8%.
| Le Soler | Pyrénées-Orientales median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 17% | 16% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 11% | 9.4% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 21% | 21% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 27% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 24% | 28% | 22% |
| No diploma | 19% | 19% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 27% | 27% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 20% | 20% | 18% |
| Higher education | 28% | 27% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Pyrénées-Orientales median and France median: the median of compared communes
The police record for Le Soler lists 164 offenses in 2025. Graded property crimes ran at 15.5 per 1,000 residents a year, and violence against people at 6.1 (2023–2025 average). Criminal damage topped the graded crimes in Le Soler (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, 0.2% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Heritage and museums in and near Le Soler. Best known first.
Nothing in Le Soler is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
2 notable people were born in Le Soler.
Joseph Bonafont: BUperpignan, CC BY-SA 4.0
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Le Soler | 7,942 | — | D | C− | B− | D |
| Pézilla-la-Rivière | 4,129 | 1.7 | D | C− | A | D |
| Baho | 3,231 | 1.9 | — | C− | — | C+ |
| Toulouges | 7,450 | 2 | B− | C− | B− | A− |
| Saint-Féliu-d'Avall | 2,950 | 2.6 | — | C− | — | C+ |
| Canohès | 6,616 | 2.8 | A− | D | A− | A− |
| Saint-Estève | 11,630 | 3.2 | B | C− | B | B+ |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
It grades B− for safety, #17 of 43 in Pyrénées-Orientales. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 21 burglaries and 72 acts of criminal damage.
They grade C+, better than 45% of compared French towns and #27 of 46 in Pyrénées-Orientales. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Prices are close to the median of compared French towns: the median sale price from July 2023 to June 2026 was €2,386/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Estimated advertised apartment rents are €12.06/m² a month, charges included. Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns, so Le Soler grades C− for cost of living.
Commune in Pyrénées-Orientales, Occitanie
Le Soler is a commune of 7,942 people in the Communauté urbaine Perpignan Méditerranée Métropole. 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.