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The town, home to 1,165 people, lies in Seine-et-Marne, Île-de-France.
Salins’s weakest is cost of living: A year’s estimated rent on a 70 m² apartment is 47% of the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. It lags on schools as well: brevet results 5 points below the expected rate. Residents’ health trails most towns (C−): after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 3% above expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns.
Figures: prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · brevet and bac results, Ministry of Education · deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025). Salins has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas.
Each subject compares Salins 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.
Salins has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents.
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The one thing Salins does most differently from other towns.
Salins has 1 historic monument on the Culture ministry’s list: 1 classé, the highest protection, and 0 inscrit, the second level.
14% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Salins has one historic monument; beside it, the nearest classé monuments in other towns, within 15.5 mi.
Église Saint-Apollinaire: Photo: Thor19 · CC BY-SA 3.0
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Salins.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
Sales in Salins from July 2023 to June 2026: 27 houses and apartments.
Source: Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
The nearest general lycée is 3.4 mi away. For collège, the closest is 2.8 mi away.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Paul ÉluardNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 143 | 80%−5 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
Its care home for older people (92 places) counts its residents as Salins’; allowing for it, deaths were 3% above expected. 278 deaths in the town between 2016 and 2025, where France’s rates at each age predict 146: 91% above. Also worth knowing: women in Seine-et-Marne live to 85.4 on average and men to 81 (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 across France.
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 · Note: TownRatings models the care-home adjustment; it is not an official figure.
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
Among the classé monuments in Salins is Église Saint-Apollinaire.
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
Children under 15 count for 20% of the people here. The 15-to-24 age group: 10%, lower than Seine-et-Marne’s towns (13%) and near compared French towns (11%). People 65 and over make up just over a fifth of the town.
51% women, 49% men
About 96 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Seine-et-Marne 51.4%, France 51.8%.
| Salins | Seine-et-Marne median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 20% | 20% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 10% | 13% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 22% | 26% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 27% | 25% | 26% |
| 65+ | 21% | 15% | 22% |
| No diploma | 21% | 17% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 32% | 21% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 19% | 20% | 18% |
| Higher education | 22% | 34% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Seine-et-Marne median and France median: the median of compared communes
Salins has 100 jobs for 500 working residents, 0.2 per worker. The median disposable income was €27,400 a year per consumption unit, near Seine-et-Marne’s towns (€28,310) and higher than compared French towns (€25,970). Bus, tram or train carried 11.3% of working residents in Salins to work at the census.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Heritage in and near Salins. Best known first.
Wikidata has nobody with a French article born in Salins yet.
Commune in Seine-et-Marne, Île-de-France
Salins is a commune of 1,165 people in the Communauté de communes Pays de Montereau. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salins | 1,165 | — | — | D | — | C− |
| Saint-Germain-Laval | 2,888 | 2 | — | C− | — | C+ |
| Montereau-Fault-Yonne | 22,279 | 3.7 | D | C− | C− | B− |
| Cannes-Écluse | 2,742 | 4.4 | — | C− | — | C |
| Varennes-sur-Seine | 3,748 | 5 | D | C− | C− | C+ |
| La Grande-Paroisse | 2,893 | 6.1 | — | C− | — | C+ |
| Villeneuve-la-Guyard Yonne | 3,455 | 6.1 | C− | C+ | B− | C |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Salins has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. Recorded figures: an average of 5.6 recorded violent incidents and 8 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
They grade D, better than 9% of compared French towns. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Sources: INSEE, census 2023 (population, employment, commuting) · INSEE, Filosofi 2023 (income per consumption unit, poverty) · 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.