Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Population 11,015: a town in Alpes-Maritimes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur.
A good place to live, if you can afford it. Its best grade is for jobs & income (A): 1.2 jobs per working resident; 8.9% unemployment. Residents are healthier than most: after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 20% 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 12.5 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. The overall grade lands at B+, better than 67% of compared French towns. That places it #9 of 43 in Alpes-Maritimes. Elsewhere it is close to typical: B for safety and B for schools.
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 · recorded crime, SSMSI (Ministry of the Interior) · brevet and bac results, Ministry of Education.
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 Mouans-Sartoux 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 one thing Mouans-Sartoux does most differently from other towns.
Mouans-Sartoux has 1 historic monument on the Culture ministry’s list, none at the highest level (classé).
The oldest protected part dates from the 16th century; the first monument here was protected in 1989.
2.8% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Mouans-Sartoux has one historic monument; beside it, the nearest classé monuments in other towns, within 15.5 mi.
Château de Mouans: Photo: G CHP · CC BY-SA 2.5
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Mouans-Sartoux.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
The middle sale price: €4,920/m², about level with Alpes-Maritimes’ towns (€4,877/m²) and above compared French towns (€2,430/m²). The split in Mouans-Sartoux: €5,594/m² for houses, €4,169/m² for apartments. Houses made up nearly three fifths of the homes sold; apartments the rest.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €5,594/m² | 202 |
| Apartments | €4,169/m² | 142 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
No commute at all: 5.8% of working residents in Mouans-Sartoux at the census. 8.9% of the labour force were unemployed, about level with Alpes-Maritimes’ towns (9.2%) and below compared French towns (10.1%).
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.
For a family doctor, residents of Mouans-Sartoux can choose among 16 GPs. Life expectancy at birth in Alpes-Maritimes is 86.5 years for women and 81.1 for men (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 across France. 1,368 deaths in the town between 2016 and 2025, close to the 1,367 that France’s rates at each age predict.
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.
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
2.8% of homes date from before 1919. The protected list starts in the 16th century.
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
The graded crime recorded most in Mouans-Sartoux was criminal damage (2025). Police and gendarmerie figures for Mouans-Sartoux show 243 offenses in 2025. This Alpes-Maritimes town has 5,700 jobs for 4,700 working residents, so people come in from nearby communes to work. The yearly rates for 2023–2025: 7.8 violent offenses and 11.7 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 · For armed robbery, the count isn’t published when it’s small (five or fewer in a year of the last three), so the index uses the département’s average, 0.6% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses. Crimes are counted in the commune where they happen, then divided by its residents, so a town that draws people in from around can look higher.
18% are under 15, above Alpes-Maritimes’ towns (16%) and close to compared French towns (17%). People aged 15 to 24 make up 9.3% of the town. Line up the people of Mouans-Sartoux by age and the one in the middle is 47.
52% women, 48% men
About 91 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Alpes-Maritimes 52.2%, France 51.8%.
| Mouans-Sartoux | Alpes-Maritimes median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 18% | 16% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 9.3% | 9.1% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 21% | 22% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 28% | 28% | 26% |
| 65+ | 24% | 24% | 22% |
| No diploma | 15% | 17% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 20% | 21% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 18% | 20% | 18% |
| Higher education | 42% | 36% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Alpes-Maritimes median and France median: the median of compared communes
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Vocational results within 5 km: 84% passed the bac pro, of 261 candidates at 2 lycées. On school results, the town ranks #21 of 46 in Alpes-Maritimes.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège La ChênaieNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 166 | 94%+2 pts |
| Lycée Alexis de TocquevilleNearest lycéeGeneral lycée | General lycée | 322 | 95%−2 pts |
| Collège les Jasmins - Sainte MargueriteBest against expectations: 7 points above the expected rateCollège | Collège | 92 | 93%+7 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Museums, heritage and other places to visit in and near Mouans-Sartoux. Best known first.
Art galleryFemmes artistes du musée de Mougins3 km southeast, in Mougins
MuseumMusée de la photographie André Villers3.1 km southeast, in MouginsMuseumMuseumEspace de l'art concretin townChâteauChâteauChâteau de Castellarasin townMuseumMuseumLes Jardins du Musée International de la Parfumeriein townPhotos from Wikimedia Commons, each under its own licence (our copy, resized).
One notable person was born in Mouans-Sartoux.
André Aschieri: Frantogian, CC BY-SA 3.0
Commune in Alpes-Maritimes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Mouans-Sartoux is a commune of 11,015 people in the Communauté d'agglomération du Pays de Grasse. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mouans-Sartoux | 11,015 | — | B+ | D− | B | B+ |
| Mougins | 19,782 | 2.3 | B− | D− | C+ | A− |
| La Roquette-sur-Siagne | 5,669 | 2.5 | B+ | D− | A− | B− |
| Pégomas | 8,240 | 2.6 | A− | D− | A− | B+ |
| Auribeau-sur-Siagne | 3,401 | 2.8 | C+ | D− | A+ | B− |
| Grasse | 50,970 | 2.8 | C+ | D | B− | B− |
| Valbonne | 11,939 | 2.9 | A− | D− | B− | B+ |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
It grades B for safety, #23 of 43 in Alpes-Maritimes. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 7 burglaries and 100 acts of criminal damage.
They grade B, better than 57% of compared French towns and #21 of 46 in Alpes-Maritimes. 95% of 322 candidates passed the bac at Lycée Alexis de Tocqueville in 2025, 2 points below the expected rate given its pupils’ backgrounds. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Mouans-Sartoux 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 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.
