Bozouls’s strongest subject is jobs & income — 1.2 jobs per working resident; 4.0% unemployment. Buying a home costs less than in most towns (B+): at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 5.4 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Its other grades sit near the middle: B− for health and B− for walkability. The median sale price is €1,974/m².
Figures: employment and commuting, 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) · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025. Bozouls has no overall grade because safety and schools aren’t graded here.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas.
Each subject compares Bozouls 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.
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Who lives here
Bozouls has fewer young adults than Aveyron’s towns or compared French towns: 8.1% are 15 to 24
Children under 15 make up 16% of residents. People 65 and over make up a quarter of the town, between Aveyron’s towns (30%) and compared French towns (22%). Line up the people of Bozouls by age and the one in the middle is 48.4.
48.4median age
BozoulsAveyron medianFrance median
Ages · share of residents
25%
Under 1515–2425–4445–6465+
Highest diploma · residents 15 and older who have left education
No diploma17%
CAP or BEP27%
Baccalauréat20%
Higher education31%
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
WomenFrance medianMen
About 91 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Aveyron 52.1%, France 51.8%.
INSEE, census 2023 · Aveyron median and France median: the median of compared communes
History
Bozouls keeps more of its old housing than Aveyron’s towns or compared French towns: 15% built before 1919
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
Among the classé monuments in Bozouls is Église Sainte-Fauste. Its oldest listed monument dates from the 10th century. 3 of the 4 are churches, chapels and other religious buildings. The Culture ministry lists 4 historic monuments in the town: 1 classé (France’s highest heritage protection) and 3 inscrit (the second level).
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
HealthHealth B−
Adjusted for age and care homes, Bozouls sees fewer deaths than 54% of compared French towns
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
376 deaths in Bozouls between 2016 and 2025, where France’s rates at each age predict 364: 3% above. Its care home for older people (66 places) counts its residents as Bozouls’; allowing for it, deaths were 13% below expected. The nearest emergency department to Bozouls is Centre hospitalier de Rodez Hopital Jacques Puel, 11.1 mi away. 5 GPs practise in the town.
−13%deaths against expected, after care homesB−Health Grade
Deaths per 100 expected · 2016–2025
Raw103
Adjusted87
Median town88
Expected100
5
GPs in Bozouls · 4.1 GP consultations a year per resident within reach (APL)
11.1 mi
to the nearest emergency department, Centre hospitalier de Rodez Hopital Jacques Puel
11.1 mi
to the nearest maternity unit, Centre hospitalier de Rodez Hopital Jacques Puel
85.1 · 80
years of life expectancy at birth, women · men, Aveyron, 2025 (provisional) · France 85.9 · 80.3
Unemployment in Bozouls, 4.0%, runs below Aveyron’s towns and compared French towns
Half of residents lived on more than €26,630 a year per consumption unit, above Aveyron’s towns (€24,780) and close to compared French towns (€25,970). Walking, cycling and public transport carried 7.8% of commuters at the census.
8%walk, cycle or take transit
How working residents got to work · census 2023
Driving86%
On foot6%
Bicycle2%
Motorbike or scooter0%
Public transport0%
1,700
jobs based in Bozouls, 1.2 per working resident
4.0%
unemployment rate, ages 15 to 64 in the labor force · median of compared French towns 10.1%
€26,630
median annual income per consumption unit, 2023 · median of compared French towns €25,970
5%
worked without traveling (at or from home)
B−
Walkability: better than 50% of compared French towns
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Questions about Bozouls
Is Bozouls safe?
Bozouls has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. Recorded figures: an average of 1.4 recorded violent incidents and 2.6 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. With 1,700 jobs for 1,400 working residents, Bozouls draws people from neighboring communes, and crimes are counted in the commune where they happen, then divided by its number of residents.
Is Bozouls expensive to live in?
Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Bozouls grades B+ for cost of living.
About Bozouls
Commune in Aveyron, Occitanie
Bozouls is a commune of 3,001 people in the Communauté de communes Comtal Lot et Truyère. 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
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.
