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9,898 people call this town in Pyrénées-Orientales, Occitanie home.
Saint-Laurent-de-la-Salanque grades low on several counts. Schools are weaker too — brevet results 2 points below the expected rate. Walkability is its strong suit — 98% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 8% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. Buying 70 m² at the median €2,305/m² takes 7.2 years of the median income per consumption unit in the Communauté urbaine Perpignan Méditerranée Métropole. The overall grade lands at D, #36 of 43 in Pyrénées-Orientales. On that grade it does better than 6% of compared French towns.
Figures: amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · commuting and employment, INSEE census 2023 · brevet and bac results, Ministry of Education · 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 Saint-Laurent-de-la-Salanque 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 2 things Saint-Laurent-de-la-Salanque does most differently from other towns.
The Culture ministry lists no building in Saint-Laurent-de-la-Salanque as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Colonne milliaire, in Saint-Hippolyte, 1.5 mi away.
4.5% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Explore the history →Nothing in Saint-Laurent-de-la-Salanque is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Saint-Laurent-de-la-Salanque.
The 15-to-24 age group: 8.6%, lower than both Pyrénées-Orientales’ towns (9.4%) and compared French towns (11%). Under-15s account for 12% of the population. Nearly a fifth of adults hold a degree.
53% women, 47% men
About 90 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Pyrénées-Orientales 52.6%, France 51.8%. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
| Saint-Laurent-de-la-Salanque | Pyrénées-Orientales median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 12% | 16% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 8.6% | 9.4% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 18% | 21% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 26% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 35% | 28% | 22% |
| No diploma | 23% | 19% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 32% | 27% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 19% | 20% | 18% |
| Higher education | 19% | 27% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Pyrénées-Orientales median and France median: the median of compared communes
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
By results, schools here place #41 of 46 in Pyrénées-Orientales. The closest lycée for the general bac is 5.2 mi off.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Jean MermozNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 230 | 81%−2 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.
The split in Saint-Laurent-de-la-Salanque: €2,482/m² for houses, €1,990/m² for apartments. Houses accounted for 78% of sales, apartments for the rest. House rents are put at about €10.61/m² a month.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €2,482/m² | 381 |
| Apartments | €1,990/m² | 109 |
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.
France’s death rates at each age would predict 1,356 deaths in Saint-Laurent-de-la-Salanque from 2016 to 2025; there were 1,399, 3% more. Its care home for older people (96 places) counts its residents as Saint-Laurent-de-la-Salanque’s; allowing for it, deaths were 3% below expected. Also worth knowing: the nearest emergency department to Saint-Laurent-de-la-Salanque is Centre hospitalier Saint Jean Perpignan, 6.3 mi away. There are 10 general practitioners here.
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 · Allowing for care homes is a TownRatings estimate, not a published statistic.
Half of residents lived on more than €23,350 a year per consumption unit, about level with Pyrénées-Orientales’ towns (€24,140) and below compared French towns (€25,970). At the census, 3.2% of working residents in Saint-Laurent-de-la-Salanque didn’t travel to work at all. 8.0% of the town’s working residents walked, cycled or took public transport to work in the 2023 census, against 13% for the median of compared French towns; 87% drove.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
The commonest graded crime in Saint-Laurent-de-la-Salanque was criminal damage (2025). The police record for Saint-Laurent-de-la-Salanque lists 221 offenses in 2025. The yearly rates for 2023–2025: 6 violent offenses and 16.7 graded property crimes per 1,000 residents.
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 (0.2% of the index here). The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Family days out, museums and other places to visit in and near Saint-Laurent-de-la-Salanque. Best known first.
3 notable people were born in Saint-Laurent-de-la-Salanque.
Fernand Siré: Fabricio Cardenas, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Josep Sanyas: BUperpignan, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Joseph Ribas: Alan Mattingly, CC BY-SA 4.0
Commune in Pyrénées-Orientales, Occitanie
Saint-Laurent-de-la-Salanque is a commune of 9,898 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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Laurent-de-la-Salanque | 9,898 | — | D | C− | C+ | C |
| Torreilles | 3,753 | 1.2 | D− | D | D | C− |
| Saint-Hippolyte | 3,126 | 1.7 | D | C− | B+ | C+ |
| Claira | 4,922 | 2.2 | D− | D | C+ | C− |
| Le Barcarès | 6,109 | 3.1 | D− | D− | D− | C |
| Villelongue-de-la-Salanque | 3,335 | 3.2 | D | C− | B− | C+ |
| Sainte-Marie-la-Mer | 4,952 | 3.4 | D− | D− | D | C |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
It grades C+ for safety, #19 of 43 in Pyrénées-Orientales. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 18 burglaries and 95 acts of criminal damage.
They grade C−, better than 18% of compared French towns and #41 of 46 in Pyrénées-Orientales. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Estimated advertised apartment rents are €11.36/m² a month, charges included. Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns, so Saint-Laurent-de-la-Salanque 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 9, 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.