Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
It is a town of 3,409 residents in Alpes-Maritimes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur.
Colomars’s best grade is for jobs & income — 0.5 jobs per working resident; 6.1% unemployment. Health is another plus — after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 27% below expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. Buying in is costly: at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 11.9 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. School results trail most towns: brevet results 3.3 points below the expected rate.
Figures: employment, INSEE census 2023 · deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025) · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · brevet and bac results, Ministry of Education. Colomars has no overall grade because safety isn’t graded here.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas.
Each subject compares Colomars 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.
Colomars has no overall grade because safety isn’t graded here.
How TownRatings grades French towns →
The 2 things Colomars does most differently from other towns.
The Culture ministry lists no building in Colomars as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Villa de Châteauneuf, dans le quartier de Gairaut, in Nice, 2.7 mi away.
Explore the history →Nothing in Colomars is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Colomars.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
The middle sale price: €4,336/m², below Alpes-Maritimes’ towns (€4,877/m²) but above compared French towns (€2,430/m²). Houses were 80% of what sold. Colomars recorded 64 home sales from July 2023 to June 2026.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €4,354/m² | 51 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
France’s death rates at each age would predict 437 deaths in Colomars from 2016 to 2025; there were 367, 16% fewer. Life expectancy in Alpes-Maritimes: 86.5 years for women and 81.1 for men (2025); France averages 85.9 and 80.3. Also worth knowing: for a family doctor, residents of Colomars can choose among 9 GPs.
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.
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
General-bac pupils go 3.2 mi to the nearest lycée. The nearest collège is 1.5 mi away. On results, collèges and lycées here come #43 of 46 in Alpes-Maritimes.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Paul LangevinNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 156 | 81%−5 pts |
| Collège Jean-Henri FabreBest against expectations: 2 points above the expected rateCollège | Collège | 111 | 86%+2 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
6.1% of the labour force were unemployed, lower than both Alpes-Maritimes’ towns (9.2%) and compared French towns (10.1%). At the census, 5.3% of commuters got to work without a car.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Children under 15 make up 15%, below both Alpes-Maritimes’ towns (16%) and compared French towns (17%). People 65 and over make up 27% of the town. Young adults of 15 to 24 account for 9.5% of the town.
51% women, 49% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Alpes-Maritimes 52.2%, France 51.8%.
| Colomars | Alpes-Maritimes median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 15% | 16% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 9.5% | 9.1% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 20% | 22% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 29% | 28% | 26% |
| 65+ | 27% | 24% | 22% |
| No diploma | 12% | 17% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 21% | 21% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 21% | 20% | 18% |
| Higher education | 41% | 36% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Alpes-Maritimes median and France median: the median of compared communes
Each year (2023–2025 average), violence against people came to 3.2 per 1,000 residents and the graded property crimes to 7.5. Police and gendarmerie figures for Colomars show 24 offenses in 2025. Criminal damage topped the graded crimes in Colomars (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 other physical violence, sexual violence, burglary, 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, 29.8% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Heritage, museums and other places to visit in and near Colomars. Best known first.
MuseumChâteau de Carros4.8 km northwest, in Carros
ChâteauChâteau de Crémat4 km south, in Nice
MuseumMusée Prieuré du Vieux-Logis4.9 km southeast, in Nice
ChâteauChâteau de la Gaude4.7 km west, in Saint-JeannetAttractionAttractionCascade de Gairaut3.7 km southeast, in NicePhotos from Wikimedia Commons, each under its own licence (our copy, resized).
Wikidata has nobody with a French article born in Colomars yet.
Commune in Alpes-Maritimes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Colomars is a commune of 3,409 people in the Métropole Nice Côte d'Azur. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Colomars | 3,409 | — | — | D− | — | A |
| Carros | 13,803 | 2 | C | D− | B− | C |
| Gattières | 4,358 | 2.2 | B− | D− | B+ | C+ |
| Tourrette-Levens | 4,624 | 3.3 | — | D− | — | B− |
| Saint-André-de-la-Roche | 5,896 | 3.6 | B | D− | A− | B+ |
| Saint-Jeannet | 4,453 | 3.7 | — | D− | — | A |
| Nice | 357,737 | 4 | D | D− | C− | C+ |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Colomars has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average.
They grade C−, better than 20% of compared French towns and #43 of 46 in Alpes-Maritimes. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Colomars grades D− 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.