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Home to 5,548 people, this town lies in Pyrénées-Orientales, Occitanie.
With a B− overall, Pollestres is better than 54% of compared French towns and ranks #4 of 43 in Pyrénées-Orientales. Its best grade is for schools (A+): brevet results 8 points above the expected rate. A 70 m² home at the median €2,500/m² costs 7.8 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the Communauté urbaine Perpignan Méditerranée Métropole. Incomes are on the low side: 0.5 jobs per working resident; 11.1% unemployment. Its remaining grades are unremarkable: B− for safety and B for walkability.
Figures: brevet and bac results, Ministry of Education · 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.
Each subject compares Pollestres 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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Pollestres 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 1973.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Pollestres.
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
School results put the town #1 of 46 in Pyrénées-Orientales. There is no general lycée within 5 km; one lies 3.6 mi away. For collège, the closest is 2.2 mi away.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège François MitterrandNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 165 | 100%+8 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
214 sales of houses and apartments in Pollestres, from July 2023 to June 2026, give the median of €2,500/m². Among the homes sold, 91% were houses. Estimated advertised rent for houses: €11.34/m² a month.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €2,572/m² | 194 |
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.
5 GPs practise in Pollestres. At birth, a girl in Pyrénées-Orientales can expect 85.5 years and a boy 78.9 (2025); across France, 85.9 and 80.3. 400 deaths in the town between 2016 and 2025, where France’s rates at each age predict 487: 18% below.
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 · That adjustment for care homes is a model of TownRatings’ own, not official data.
Just over a tenth of the labour force were unemployed, between Pyrénées-Orientales’ towns (14.7%) and compared French towns (10.1%). Median disposable income comes to €24,640 a year per consumption unit. Public transport took 2.0% of Pollestres’ working residents to work at the census.
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.
Its oldest listed monument dates from the 11th century. Homes from before 1919 make up 5.2% of the total, lower than both Pyrénées-Orientales’ towns (5.7%) and compared French towns (7.4%).
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
Each year (2023–2025 average), violence against people came to 4.2 per 1,000 residents and the graded property crimes to 18.1. Pollestres’s tally for 2025: 147 recorded offenses. The graded crime recorded most in the town was criminal damage (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 · For armed robbery, the count isn’t published when it’s small (five or fewer in a year of the last three), so the index uses the département’s average, 2.8% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
23% of residents are 65 or over, lower than Pyrénées-Orientales’ towns (28%) and near compared French towns (22%). Ages in Pollestres split evenly at 44.8: half are older, half younger. Young adults of 15 to 24 are a tenth of the population.
52% women, 48% men
About 91 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Pyrénées-Orientales 52.6%, France 51.8%.
| Pollestres | Pyrénées-Orientales median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 17% | 16% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 9.9% | 9.4% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 23% | 21% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 27% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 23% | 28% | 22% |
| No diploma | 17% | 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
Museums, gardens and heritage in and near Pollestres. Best known first.
Pollestres has one historic monument; beside it, the nearest classé monuments in other towns, within 15.5 mi.
Église Saint-Martin: Photo: Palauenc05 · CC BY-SA 4.0
Wikidata has nobody with a French article born in Pollestres yet.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pollestres | 5,548 | — | B− | C− | B− | B+ |
| Canohès | 6,616 | 1.9 | A− | D | A− | A− |
| Villeneuve-de-la-Raho | 4,470 | 2.4 | C | D | B | A− |
| Bages | 4,560 | 2.7 | C | C+ | A− | C |
| Ponteilla | 3,101 | 2.7 | — | C− | — | C |
| Toulouges | 7,450 | 2.7 | B− | C− | B− | A− |
| Perpignan | 121,616 | 4 | C− | C+ | D− | C− |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
It grades B− for safety, #18 of 43 in Pyrénées-Orientales. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 40 burglaries and 45 acts of criminal damage.
They grade A+, better than 100% of compared French towns and #1 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 €2,500/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Estimated advertised apartment rents are €11.94/m² a month, charges included. Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns, so Pollestres grades C− for cost of living.
Commune in Pyrénées-Orientales, Occitanie
Pollestres is a commune of 5,548 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.