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A town of 1,030 in Aveyron, Occitanie.
Camarès has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents. Its weakest subject is jobs & income (C−): 1 job per working resident; 12.6% unemployment. Its strongest is cost of living (A): at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 2.6 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas.
The 3 things Camarès does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Camarès 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.
How TownRatings grades French towns →
The Culture ministry lists no building in Camarès as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Puits Renaissance, in Fayet, 3.3 mi away.
28% 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 Camarès.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
Advertised rents are estimated at €8.74/m² a month, below Aveyron’s towns (€9.38/m²) and compared French towns (€12.41/m²) alike. For a house, the estimated advertised rent is €6.56/m² a month. Between July 2023 and June 2026, buyers took 46 homes in Camarès.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €852/m² | 41 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Nearly a third of residents are 65 or over, above both Aveyron’s towns (30%) and compared French towns (22%). Young adults of 15 to 24 account for nearly a tenth of the town. Camarès has a median age of 54.5.
52% women, 48% men
About 94 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Aveyron 52.1%, France 51.8%. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
| Camarès | Aveyron median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 12% | 14% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 8.1% | 8.9% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 20% | 21% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 28% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 32% | 30% | 22% |
| No diploma | 21% | 19% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 22% | 26% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 22% | 20% | 18% |
| Higher education | 28% | 29% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Aveyron median and France median: the median of compared communes
Median disposable income comes to €23,020 a year per consumption unit. Per resident in work, Camarès counts 1 jobs (400 jobs, 400 workers). Just over one in ten commuters went to work on foot, by bike or by public transport 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.
Camarès has one family doctor. The nearest emergency department to Camarès is Centre hospitalier Emile Borel Saint Affrique, 9.4 mi away. France’s death rates at each age would predict 164 deaths in the town from 2016 to 2025; there were 192, 17% more. In Aveyron, life expectancy at birth reaches 85.1 years for women and 80 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 adjustment for care homes is TownRatings’ own modeling, not an official figure. A less sure grade: it could be anywhere from D to B.
Heritage and other places to visit in and near Camarès. Best known first.
Nothing in Camarès is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
2 notable people were born in Camarès.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Camarès | 1,030 | — | — | A | — | C |
| Saint-Affrique | 7,941 | 9.3 | A | A− | B− | B+ |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Camarès has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. Recorded figures: an average of 4.2 recorded violent incidents and 4.7 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 Camarès grades A for cost of living.
Commune in Aveyron, Occitanie
Camarès is a commune of 1,030 people in the Communauté de communes Monts, Rance et Rougier. 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.