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TourouzelleAude

In Aude, Occitanie, this town has 494 residents.

Is Tourouzelle a good place to live?

Tourouzelle has no grades yet: French towns are graded from 1,000 residents up. 18% of its homes are second homes. The median price paid is €1,463/m². Over-65s are 31% of the population.

What makes Tourouzelle stand out

The 3 things Tourouzelle does most differently from other towns.

Picked automatically from the data
Tourouzelle’s outline. No photo of the town is in our collection yet.
Tourouzelle’s story

No historic monuments in Tourouzelle

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

The nearest classé monument is Église Saint-Martin, in Escales, 2.4 mi away.

30% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.

Explore the history →

The data

Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Tourouzelle.

Who lives here

Tourouzelle has fewer young adults than Aude’s towns or compared French towns: 6.6% are 15 to 24

31% of residents have reached 65. Children under 15 make up 16%, close to Aude’s towns (15%) and below compared French towns (17%). Among adults, 26% have a degree.

52.7median age
TourouzelleAude medianFrance median

Ages · share of residents

Highest diploma · residents 15 and older who have left education

No diploma17%
CAP or BEP27%
Baccalauréat22%
Higher education26%

Women and men · all residents

49% women, 51% men

About an even split. Median share of women: Aude 52.3%, France 51.8%.

Ages and diplomas in Tourouzelle
TourouzelleAude medianFrance median
Under 1516%15%17%
15–246.6%8.9%11%
25–4418%19%23%
45–6428%27%26%
65+31%29%22%
No diploma17%21%19%
CAP or BEP27%27%26%
Baccalauréat22%20%18%
Higher education26%25%30%

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

Work & commute

Incomes in Tourouzelle run lower than in Aude’s towns or compared French towns: a median €21,480 a year per consumption unit

5.6% of commuters walked, cycled or took the bus or train at the census, below both Aude’s towns (11.1%) and compared French towns (13.4%). For its 200 residents in work, Tourouzelle has 100 jobs: 0.5 each. Unemployment runs at 12.9%.

6%walk, cycle or take transit

How working residents got to work · census 2023

Driving84%
On foot4%
Motorbike or scooter2%
Bicycle1%
Public transport1%
100
jobs based in Tourouzelle, 0.5 per working resident
12.9%
unemployment rate, ages 15 to 64 in the labor force · median of compared French towns 10.1%
€21,480
median annual income per consumption unit, 2023 · median of compared French towns €25,970
8%
worked without traveling (at or from home)

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

Schools

68.0% of candidates passed the brevet at the collège within 5 km, 14 points below the expected rate

Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.

General-bac pupils go 5.3 mi to the nearest lycée. The town’s pupils have a collège 2 mi away.

68.0%passed the brevet

Brevet pass rate · collèges within 5 km

Tourouzelle68.0%
Median of towns87.5%
SchoolLevelCandidatesPassed, 2025
Collège Antoine FaureNearest collègeCollègeCollège6868%−14 pts
68.0%
passed the brevet at the collèges, −14 pts against the expected rate
2 mi
to the nearest collège from the town center

Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte

Housing

Estimated advertised rents run lower in Tourouzelle than in Aude’s towns or across compared French towns: €9.87/m² a month

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

Tourouzelle recorded 42 home sales from July 2023 to June 2026.

€1,463/m²median sale price

Median sale price per m² · Jul 2023 to Jun 2026

Tourouzelle€1,463/m²
Median of towns€2,430/m²
Aude median€1,923/m²
By typeMedian per m²Sales
Houses€1,463/m²42
€9.87/m²
estimated advertised apartment rent a month, charges included (€8.08 to €12.06/m² a month)
€8.03/m²
estimated advertised house rent a month, charges included

Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte

Nearby attractions

Château de Saint-Estève and 6 more in and around Tourouzelle

Other places to visit, museums and heritage in and near Tourouzelle. Best known first.

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Places: © OpenStreetMap contributors · Wikidata
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Everything we know about Tourouzelle

14pages on Tourouzelle

Landmarks

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

Its history page →

Famous people from Tourouzelle

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

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Tourouzelle’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 Aude →
Lézignan-CorbièresSallèles-d'AudeOuveillanCuxac-d'AudeTrèbesNarbonneLézignan-CorbièresSallèles-d'AudeOuveillanCuxac-d'AudeTrèbesNarbonneTourouzelle
How the neighbors grade
TownPeopleMilesOverallCostSafetyHealth
Tourouzelle494—————
Lézignan-Corbières10,3434.2DB−DC−
Sallèles-d'Aude3,17911DCAC−
Ouveillan2,71313BBAC−
Cuxac-d'Aude4,07914DB−CC−
Trèbes5,36114CB−BB
Narbonne57,58715D−C−D−C

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

About Tourouzelle

Commune in Aude, Occitanie

Tourouzelle is a commune of 494 people in the Communauté de communes Région Lézignanaise, Corbières et Minervois. 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
494 (INSEE, census 2023)
Intercommunality
Communauté de communes Région Lézignanaise, Corbières et Minervois
Département
Aude (11)
Région
Occitanie
Area
5.6 sq mi (14.4 km²)
INSEE code
11393

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.