Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
With 2,585 residents, it is a town in Alpes-Maritimes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur.
L'Escarène’s best grade is for schools: brevet results 5.6 points above the expected rate. It is easy to get around without a car: 71% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 13% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. Where it falls short is cost of living — at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 6.3 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Its other grades sit near the middle: B− for health and B− for jobs & income.
Figures: brevet and bac results, Ministry of Education · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · commuting and employment, INSEE census 2023 · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025). L'Escarène 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 L'Escarène 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.
L'Escarène has no overall grade because safety isn’t graded here.
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On the Culture ministry’s list, L'Escarène counts 1 historic monument: 1 classé at the top level of protection and 0 inscrit at the second.
The oldest protected part dates from the 17th century; the first monument here was protected in 1978.
21% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in L'Escarène.
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Ranked by results, schools here are #2 of 46 in Alpes-Maritimes. No general lycée lies within 5 km; the nearest is 4.8 mi away. A collège lies 0.7 mi away.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège François RabelaisNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 94 | 91%+3 pts |
| Collège Vallées du Paillon - Roger CarlèsBest against expectations: 7 points above the expected rateCollège | Collège | 169 | 91%+7 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
L'Escarène holds 600 jobs; 1,100 of its residents are in work, so 0.6 jobs each. The median disposable income was €25,040 a year per consumption unit, about level with compared French towns (€25,970) and below Alpes-Maritimes’ towns (€28,120). Bus, tram or train carried 2.8% of working residents in L'Escarène to work at the census.
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.
L'Escarène is the cheapest of the 51 towns in Alpes-Maritimes: its median sale is €2,463/m². Behind the median of €2,463/m²: 86 houses and apartments sold here between July 2023 and June 2026. Houses made up 26% of the homes sold; apartments the rest.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Apartments | €2,286/m² | 64 |
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.
Its oldest listed monument dates from the 17th century.
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
People 65 and over make up 25% of the town, near Alpes-Maritimes’ towns (24%) and higher than compared French towns (22%). Those aged 15 to 24 account for 9.7% of residents. The median resident of L'Escarène is 47.5 years old.
53% women, 47% men
About 88 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Alpes-Maritimes 52.2%, France 51.8%.
| L'Escarène | Alpes-Maritimes median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 16% | 16% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 9.7% | 9.1% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 21% | 22% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 28% | 28% | 26% |
| 65+ | 25% | 24% | 22% |
| No diploma | 18% | 17% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 27% | 21% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 27% | 20% | 18% |
| Higher education | 20% | 36% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Alpes-Maritimes median and France median: the median of compared communes
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
The nearest emergency department to L'Escarène is Centre hospitalier la Palmosa de Menton, 7.7 mi away. 592 deaths here between 2016 and 2025, where France’s rates at each age predict 374: 58% above. Its three care homes for older people (207 places) count their residents as L'Escarène’s; allowing for them, deaths were 12% below expected. At birth, a girl in Alpes-Maritimes can expect 86.5 years and a boy 81.1 (2025); across France, 85.9 and 80.3.
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 adjustment is a TownRatings modeling step, not an official statistic.
On average over 2023–2025, every 1,000 residents saw 6.5 violent offenses and 8.6 graded property crimes a year. 2025 saw 18 offenses recorded in L'Escarène. Of the graded crimes here, criminal damage came up most often (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 other physical violence, sexual violence, burglary, 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 (25.6% of the index here). The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Other places to visit and family days out in and near L'Escarène. Best known first.
L'Escarène has one historic monument; beside it, the nearest classé monuments in other towns, within 15.5 mi.
Wikidata places 2 people here, but for none of them do the articles confirm L'Escarène 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| L'Escarène | 2,585 | — | — | C | — | B− |
| Contes | 7,897 | 2.4 | B | D | B+ | C |
| Tourrette-Levens | 4,624 | 5.2 | — | D− | — | B− |
| Drap | 5,484 | 5.3 | B− | D− | B+ | B+ |
| Sospel | 3,791 | 5.4 | C | C− | A | C− |
| Levens | 5,377 | 6.3 | B+ | D− | A | A− |
| La Turbie | 3,045 | 6.4 | A− | D− | B+ | A+ |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
L'Escarène has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average.
They grade A, better than 91% of compared French towns and #2 of 46 in Alpes-Maritimes. 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 €2,463/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns, so L'Escarène grades C for cost of living.
Commune in Alpes-Maritimes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
L'Escarène is a commune of 2,585 people in the Communauté de communes du Pays des Paillons. 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.