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Home to 2,880 people, this town lies in Vienne, Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
Health is a strength (A): after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 28% below expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. Households here earn well (A): 0.5 jobs per working resident; 4.9% unemployment. Getting around depends on the car (C): 72% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 6% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. At €1,888/m², the median price, 70 m² costs 5.2 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the Communauté urbaine du Grand Poitiers.
Figures: deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025) · employment and commuting, INSEE census 2023 · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi. Saint-Julien-l'Ars has no overall grade because safety and schools aren’t graded here.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas.
Each subject compares Saint-Julien-l'Ars 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.
Saint-Julien-l'Ars has no overall grade because safety and schools aren’t graded here.
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The 2 things Saint-Julien-l'Ars does most differently from other towns.
The Culture ministry lists 1 historic monument in Saint-Julien-l'Ars, none of them classé, France’s highest protection.
The oldest protected part dates from the 14th century; the first monument here was protected in 1930.
Explore the history →Saint-Julien-l'Ars has one historic monument; beside it, the nearest classé monuments in other towns, within 15.5 mi.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Saint-Julien-l'Ars.
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
In Vienne, women can expect to live 85.8 years and men 79.8 (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 across France. From 2016 to 2025, 147 residents of Saint-Julien-l'Ars died, against 204 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 28% fewer. This Vienne town has 5 family doctors.
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 · The care-home step is TownRatings’ own calculation, not an official number.
5.7% of commuters walked, cycled or took the bus or train at the census, lower than both Vienne’s towns (9.2%) and compared French towns (13.4%). Median disposable income comes to €27,590 a year per consumption unit.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
Behind the median of €1,888/m²: 66 houses and apartments sold in Saint-Julien-l'Ars between July 2023 and June 2026. Advertised rents are estimated at €10.52/m² a month, near Vienne’s towns (€10.33/m²) and lower than compared French towns (€12.41/m²). Of the homes sold, 98% were houses.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €1,893/m² | 65 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
The protected list starts in the 14th century. Homes from before 1919 make up 11% of the total, near Vienne’s towns (11%) and higher than compared French towns (7.4%).
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
People aged 15 to 24 make up nearly a tenth of the town, below both Vienne’s towns (10%) and compared French towns (11%). Half the people of Saint-Julien-l'Ars are older than 43.5. Among adults, 34% have a degree.
51% women, 49% men
About 95 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Vienne 52.1%, France 51.8%.
| Saint-Julien-l'Ars | Vienne median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 18% | 16% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 9.3% | 10% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 25% | 22% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 28% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 20% | 25% | 22% |
| No diploma | 15% | 17% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 27% | 27% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 19% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 34% | 32% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Vienne median and France median: the median of compared communes
The yearly rates for 2023–2025: 3 violent offenses and 6.6 graded property crimes per 1,000 residents. For 2025, the figures show 28 offenses in Saint-Julien-l'Ars. More of the graded crimes in the town were burglary than anything else (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 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, 31.2% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Wikidata has nobody with a French article born in Saint-Julien-l'Ars yet.
Commune in Vienne, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Saint-Julien-l'Ars is a commune of 2,880 people in the Communauté urbaine du Grand Poitiers. 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-Julien-l'Ars | 2,880 | — | — | B | — | A |
| Mignaloux-Beauvoir | 5,229 | 4.6 | A− | C+ | A | B+ |
| Nieuil-l'Espoir | 2,631 | 5.2 | — | A | — | A− |
| Nouaillé-Maupertuis | 2,975 | 5.4 | — | A− | — | A− |
| Montamisé | 3,723 | 5.7 | A | B− | A+ | B |
| Chauvigny | 7,007 | 7.1 | B+ | A | B− | B− |
| Poitiers | 89,916 | 7.4 | C | C+ | D | A− |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Saint-Julien-l'Ars has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 17 burglaries and 11 acts of criminal damage.
Homes cost less than in most compared French towns: the median sale price from July 2023 to June 2026 was €1,888/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Saint-Julien-l'Ars grades B 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 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.