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A town of 2,453 in Var, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur.
Saint-Julien has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents. Its weakest subject is jobs & income (D): 0.3 jobs per working resident; 11.5% unemployment.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas.
The one thing Saint-Julien does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Saint-Julien 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’s list holds 1 historic monument in Saint-Julien; none is classé, France’s top protection.
The oldest protected part dates from the 12th century; the first monument here was protected in 1925.
Thomas Philibert, born in 1743, is the one person born in Saint-Julien before 1900 that Wikidata records.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Saint-Julien.
Half of residents lived on more than €24,840 a year per consumption unit, below Var’s towns (€26,770) and compared French towns (€25,970) alike. At the census, 5.4% of commuters got to work without a car. The jobless rate is 11.5%.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
At birth, a girl in Var can expect 86 years and a boy 80.3 (2025); across France, 85.9 and 80.3. Adjusted for age and care homes, Saint-Julien records 100 deaths per 100 expected, higher than both Var’s towns (92) and compared French towns (88). 389 deaths in the town between 2016 and 2025, where France’s rates at each age predict 287: 36% above. The nearest emergency department to Saint-Julien is Centre hospitalier de Manosque Louis Raffalli, 10.7 mi away.
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.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
123 sales of houses and apartments in Saint-Julien, from July 2023 to June 2026, give the median of €2,864/m². A home here costs 8 years of the median income in Communauté de communes Provence Verdon. Of the homes sold, 94% were houses.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €2,850/m² | 116 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
8.9% of residents are 15 to 24, near Var’s towns (8.8%) and lower than compared French towns (11%). People 65 and over make up 26% of the town. Children are 16% of the town.
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Var 51.4%, France 51.8%.
| Saint-Julien | Var median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 16% | 15% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 8.9% | 8.8% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 20% | 21% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 30% | 28% | 26% |
| 65+ | 26% | 26% | 22% |
| No diploma | 18% | 16% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 27% | 25% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 21% | 20% | 18% |
| Higher education | 28% | 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.
Its heritage reaches back to the 12th century. Homes from before 1919 make up just over a tenth of the total.
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
Family violence topped the graded crimes in Saint-Julien (2025). Police and gendarmerie figures for Saint-Julien show 34 offenses in 2025. The yearly rates for 2023–2025: 7 violent offenses and 9.9 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 · Small counts of other physical violence, sexual violence, burglary, vehicle theft and theft from vehicles go unpublished (five or fewer in at least one of the last three years); the département’s average stands in, 38.3% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Saint-Julien has one historic monument; beside it, the nearest classé monuments in other towns, within 15.5 mi.
One notable person was born in Saint-Julien.
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-Julien | 2,453 | — | — | C− | — | C− |
| Gréoux-les-Bains Alpes-de-Haute-Provence | 3,084 | 4.7 | D | D | C− | C |
| Vinon-sur-Verdon | 4,464 | 5.9 | C+ | C− | B− | B− |
| Rians | 4,223 | 9.9 | C− | C | A− | D |
| Valensole Alpes-de-Haute-Provence | 3,137 | 9.9 | C+ | C+ | B | B |
| Sainte-Tulle Alpes-de-Haute-Provence | 3,558 | 10 | C− | C | B | D |
| Barjols | 2,984 | 10 | C− | B− | C+ | D− |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Saint-Julien has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average.
Homes cost more than in most compared French towns: the median sale price from July 2023 to June 2026 was €2,864/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns, so Saint-Julien grades C− for cost of living.
Commune in Var, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Saint-Julien is a commune of 2,453 people in the Communauté de communes Provence Verdon. 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.