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AucazeinAriège

A town of 65 in Ariège, Occitanie.

Is Aucazein a good place to live?

Aucazein is too small to grade: French towns get subject grades from 1,000 residents.

What makes Aucazein stand out

The 2 things Aucazein does most differently from other towns.

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Aucazein’s outline. No photo of the town is in our collection yet.
Aucazein’s story

No historic monuments in Aucazein

The Culture ministry lists no building in Aucazein as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.

The nearest classé monument is Église Notre-Dame-de-Tramesaygues, in Audressein, 2.5 mi away.

29% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.

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The data

Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Aucazein.

Who lives here

Older residents shape Aucazein: 40% are 65 or over, above Ariège’s towns and compared French towns

The 15-to-24 age group: 1.5%, below Ariège’s towns (10%) and compared French towns (11%) alike. The share of residents under 15 is 12%. Graduates make up 36% of adults.

53.3median age
AucazeinAriège medianFrance median

Ages · share of residents

Highest diploma · residents 15 and older who have left education

No diploma13%
CAP or BEP29%
Baccalauréat20%
Higher education36%

Women and men · all residents

40% women, 60% men

About 67 women for every 100 men. Median share of women: Ariège 52.2%, France 51.8%.

Ages and diplomas in Aucazein
AucazeinAriège medianFrance median
Under 1512%15%17%
15–241.5%10%11%
25–4426%22%23%
45–6420%26%26%
65+40%27%22%
No diploma13%21%19%
CAP or BEP29%26%26%
Baccalauréat20%20%18%
Higher education36%25%30%

INSEE, census 2023 · Ariège median and France median: the median of compared communes

Work & commute

Aucazein has higher unemployment than Ariège’s towns or compared French towns: 15.4%

At the census, 13.0% of working residents in Aucazein didn’t travel to work at all. Public transport took nearly a tenth of the town’s working residents to work at the census.

13%walk, cycle or take transit

How working residents got to work · census 2023

Driving74%
Public transport9%
Bicycle4%
On foot0%
Motorbike or scooter0%
0
jobs based in Aucazein, 0.3 per working resident
15.4%
unemployment rate, ages 15 to 64 in the labor force · median of compared French towns 10.1%
13%
worked without traveling (at or from home)

Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte

Housing

Renting in Aucazein costs less than in both Ariège’s towns and compared French towns, at an estimated advertised €9.21/m² a month

Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.

House rents are put at about €7.92/m² a month. Between July 2023 and June 2026, buyers took 7 homes in Aucazein.

€9.21/m²estimated apartment rent a month

Estimated advertised apartment rent per m² a month

Aucazein€9.21/m²
Median of towns€12.41/m²
Ariège median€9.99/m²
€9.21/m²
estimated advertised apartment rent a month, charges included (€7.37 to €11.50/m² a month)
€7.92/m²
estimated advertised house rent a month, charges included

Source: Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte

Keep exploring

Everything we know about Aucazein

11pages on Aucazein

Landmarks

Nothing in Aucazein is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.

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Famous people from Aucazein

Wikidata has nobody with a French article born in Aucazein yet.

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Aucazein’s neighbors

The nearest towns of 2,500 or more. The map uses IGN’s commune boundaries. See them on the map →

All towns in Ariège →
Saint-GironsSaint-GaudensSaint-GironsSaint-GaudensAucazein
How the neighbors grade
TownPeopleMilesOverallCostSafetyHealth
Aucazein65—————
Saint-Girons6,0089.2CB+DC−
Saint-Gaudens Haute-Garonne12,13918C+A−DC+

People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.

About Aucazein

Commune in Ariège, Occitanie

Aucazein is a commune of 65 people in the Communauté de communes Couserans-Pyrénées. 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

Population
65 (INSEE, census 2023)
Intercommunality
Communauté de communes Couserans-Pyrénées
Département
Ariège (09)
Région
Occitanie
Area
2.3 sq mi (6.1 km²)
INSEE code
09025

Sources: INSEE, census 2023 (population, employment, commuting) · INSEE, Filosofi 2023 (income per consumption unit, poverty) · 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 October 30, 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.