Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
A town in Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, home to 3,243 people.
The picture is mixed. Buying in is costly: at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 7.3 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Its best grade is for safety (A−): an average of 4.6 recorded violent incidents and 11.3 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. All told, that adds up to a C overall and a rank of #10 of 15 in Alpes-de-Haute-Provence. Nationally, it does better than just over a quarter of compared French towns. Its remaining grades are unremarkable: C+ for jobs & income and B for walkability.
Figures: recorded crime, SSMSI (Ministry of the Interior) · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · employment and commuting, INSEE census 2023 · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025.
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 Volx 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 no building in Volx as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Église Notre-Dame-de-Romigier, in Manosque, 4 mi away.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Volx.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
Apartments in Volx sell for €2,496/m², houses for €2,613/m². 110 sales of houses and apartments locally, from July 2023 to June 2026, give the median of €2,606/m². Houses accounted for 73% of sales, apartments for the rest.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €2,613/m² | 80 |
| Apartments | €2,496/m² | 30 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Police and gendarmerie recorded 55 offenses in Volx in 2025. The graded crime recorded most locally was criminal damage (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 · When sexual violence, vehicle theft and theft from vehicles number five or fewer in a recent year, the figure is withheld, and the index uses the département’s average instead (11.3% of the index here). As that share tops 10%, this Safety Grade carries more doubt than most. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
Women in Alpes-de-Haute-Provence live to 85.8 on average and men to 79.7 (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 across France. Ages and care homes taken into account, deaths in Volx come to 97 per 100 predicted. From 2016 to 2025, 460 residents of Volx died, against 390 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 18% more.
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 · This figure includes a care-home adjustment that TownRatings models; no official statistic exists.
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
For exam results, it comes #7 of 11 in Alpes-de-Haute-Provence.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège André AilhaudNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 111 | 87%−4 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
The 65-and-over age group makes up just over a quarter of residents. Young adults of 15 to 24 account for a tenth of the town. 32% of adults hold a degree, above both Alpes-de-Haute-Provence’s towns (30%) and compared French towns (30%).
52% women, 48% men
About 91 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Alpes-de-Haute-Provence 52.0%, France 51.8%.
| Volx | Alpes-de-Haute-Provence median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 16% | 16% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 10% | 9.2% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 21% | 21% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 27% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 26% | 27% | 22% |
| No diploma | 17% | 19% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 27% | 27% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 18% | 20% | 18% |
| Higher education | 32% | 30% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Alpes-de-Haute-Provence median and France median: the median of compared communes
Volx holds 850 jobs; 1,400 of its residents are in work, so 0.6 jobs each. 9.3% of the labour force were unemployed, below Alpes-de-Haute-Provence’s towns (10.9%) and compared French towns (10.1%) alike. After tax and benefits, the median income is €25,830 a year per consumption unit.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Museums, heritage and family days out in and near Volx. Best known first.
Nothing in Volx is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
2 notable people were born in Volx.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Volx | 3,243 | — | C | C− | A− | C |
| Villeneuve | 4,360 | 1.8 | C− | C− | B+ | B− |
| Manosque | 22,718 | 4.1 | C− | C− | D | B− |
| Oraison | 6,155 | 4.6 | C− | C− | B+ | C |
| Pierrevert | 3,945 | 6.4 | B | C− | A+ | B+ |
| Forcalquier | 5,222 | 6.5 | B | D | B | B |
| Sainte-Tulle | 3,558 | 6.9 | C− | C | B | D |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
It grades A− for safety, #4 of 15 in Alpes-de-Haute-Provence. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 14 burglaries and 23 acts of criminal damage.
They grade C, better than 27% of compared French towns and #7 of 11 in Alpes-de-Haute-Provence. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Prices are close to the median of compared French towns: the median sale price from July 2023 to June 2026 was €2,606/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns, so Volx grades C− for cost of living.
Commune in Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Volx is a commune of 3,243 people in the Communauté d'agglomération Durance-Lubéron-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 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.