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1,586 residents make their home in this town in Aude, Occitanie.
Alzonne’s strongest subject is cost of living: at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 3.8 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Walking, cycling and public transport work well here: nine in ten residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 9% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. Incomes are on the low side (D): 0.7 jobs per working resident; 12.3% unemployment. Homes go for a median €1,266/m².
Figures: prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · commuting and employment, INSEE census 2023. Alzonne has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas.
The one thing Alzonne does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Alzonne 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.
Alzonne has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents.
How TownRatings grades French towns →
The Culture ministry lists no building in Alzonne as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is glise Saint-Julien-et-Sainte-Basilisse, in Bram, 3.2 mi away.
26% 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 Alzonne.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
From July 2023 to June 2026, 68 homes were sold in Alzonne. Of the homes sold, 84% were houses. That is the middle of 68 sales of houses and apartments locally from July 2023 to June 2026, against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns and €1,923/m² for the median of compared towns in Aude.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €1,186/m² | 57 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
12.3% of the labour force were unemployed, lower than Aude’s towns (14.6%) yet higher than compared French towns (10.1%). Public transport took 2.0% of Alzonne’s working residents to work at the census.
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.
France’s death rates at each age would predict 178 deaths in Alzonne from 2016 to 2025; there were 152, 15% fewer. The nearest emergency department to Alzonne is Polyclinique Montreal Carcassonne, 8.3 mi away. There is one general practitioner locally. In Aude, life expectancy at birth reaches 84.4 years for women and 78.3 for men (2025), next to 85.9 and 80.3 for France.
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 step is TownRatings’ own calculation, not an official number. A less sure grade: it could be anywhere from C to A−.
Young adults of 15 to 24 are a tenth of the population. Nearly a quarter of residents have reached 65. At 45.2, the median resident of Alzonne sits in the middle of the age range.
52% women, 48% men
About 92 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Aude 52.3%, France 51.8%.
| Alzonne | Aude median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 18% | 15% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 9.6% | 8.9% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 22% | 19% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 26% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 24% | 29% | 22% |
| No diploma | 23% | 21% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 28% | 27% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 20% | 20% | 18% |
| Higher education | 24% | 25% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Aude median and France median: the median of compared communes
Heritage and museums in and near Alzonne. Best known first.
MuseumMaison de l'archéologie de Bram4.9 km west, in BramChâteauChâteauChâteau de Raissac-sur-Lampy2.8 km northwest, in Raissac-sur-LampyChâteauChâteauChâteau de Valgros4 km southwest, in BramPhotos from Wikimedia Commons, each under its own licence (our copy, resized).
Nothing in Alzonne is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
2 notable people were born in Alzonne.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alzonne | 1,586 | — | — | A− | — | B |
| Bram | 3,233 | 3.1 | B− | B+ | C | C |
| Pennautier | 2,895 | 7.4 | B | B− | A+ | D |
| Carcassonne | 46,080 | 9.4 | C− | B | D− | C+ |
| Villemoustaussou | 4,401 | 9.5 | B | C+ | A+ | B+ |
| Conques-sur-Orbiel | 2,523 | 11 | A+ | A− | A | A+ |
| Castelnaudary | 12,151 | 12 | C+ | A− | D | B− |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Alzonne has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. Recorded figures: an average of 2.8 recorded violent incidents and 11.6 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns too, so Alzonne grades A− for cost of living.
Commune in Aude, Occitanie
Alzonne is a commune of 1,586 people in the Communauté d'agglomération Carcassonne Agglo. 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 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.