Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
A town of 2,124 in Var, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur.
Callas has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents. Its weakest subject is schools (D−): brevet results 10 points below the expected rate. At the median price of €2,700/m², a 70 m² home costs 7.7 times the median annual income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size) in the Communauté d'agglomération Dracénie Provence Verdon Agglomération. Its strongest is health (A): after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 26% below expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas.
The 2 things Callas does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Callas 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 1 historic monument in Callas, none of them classé, France’s highest protection.
18% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Callas.
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
That puts Callas below both Var’s towns (85.4%) and compared French towns (87.5%).
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Jean CavaillèsNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 127 | 78%−10 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.
On this, Callas is below both Var’s towns (92) and compared French towns (88). From 2016 to 2025, 180 residents of Callas died, against 244 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 26% fewer. The care-home adjustment is a TownRatings modeling step, not an official statistic.
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
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
The median price, €2,700/m², comes from 104 sales of houses and apartments in Callas from July 2023 to June 2026. In Callas, houses go for €3,184/m² and apartments for €1,795/m². The estimated advertised rent is €12.00/m² a month, below Var’s towns (€14.43/m²) and close to compared French towns (€12.41/m²).
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €3,184/m² | 71 |
| Apartments | €1,795/m² | 33 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Callas has 450 jobs for 900 working residents, 0.5 per worker. At the census, 7.0% went to work on foot, by bike or by public transport, close to Var’s towns (10.0%) and below compared French towns (13.4%).
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
In the comparison, Callas comes below both Var’s towns (8.8%) and compared French towns (11%). 14% of residents are children under 15.
49% women, 51% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Var 51.4%, France 51.8%.
| Callas | Var median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 14% | 15% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 7.2% | 8.8% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 21% | 21% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 30% | 28% | 26% |
| 65+ | 28% | 26% | 22% |
| No diploma | 16% | 16% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 28% | 25% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 20% | 20% | 18% |
| Higher education | 29% | 31% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Var median and France median: the median of compared communes
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
For Callas, that is above both Var’s towns (8.7%) and compared French towns (7.4%). The Culture ministry lists 1 historic monument in Callas, none of them classé, France’s highest protection.
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
Police and gendarmerie recorded 15 offenses in the graded categories in Callas in 2025. For family violence, other physical violence, sexual violence, vehicle theft and theft from vehicles, this figure isn’t published when it’s small (five or fewer in at least one of the last three years); the index uses the département’s average instead, 51.2% of the index here.
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
Museums, other places to visit and heritage in and near Callas. Best known first.
Callas has one historic monument; beside it, the nearest classé monuments in other towns, within 15.5 mi.
Chapelle de la Trinité (ruines): Photo: René Dinkel · CC BY-SA 4.0
Wikidata places 2 people here, but for none of them do the articles confirm Callas as the birthplace, so nobody is listed.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Callas | 2,124 | — | — | C− | — | A |
| Figanières | 2,762 | 2.2 | — | C− | — | C |
| Draguignan | 40,826 | 5.2 | C | C− | C+ | C |
| Seillans | 2,941 | 5.8 | — | C− | — | B+ |
| La Motte | 3,071 | 6.2 | C | D | B+ | B− |
| Trans-en-Provence | 6,905 | 6.4 | B− | C− | C+ | B+ |
| Fayence | 6,157 | 7.6 | C− | D | B− | B+ |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Callas has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. Recorded figures: an average of 5.2 recorded violent incidents and 10.2 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 7 burglaries and 8 acts of criminal damage.
They grade D−, better than 2% of compared French towns. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns, so Callas grades C− for cost of living.
Commune in Var, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Callas is a commune of 2,124 people in the Communauté d'agglomération Dracénie Provence Verdon Agglomération. 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 October 30, 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.