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The town has 1,482 residents and lies in Aveyron, Occitanie. It skews older: 35% of residents are 65 or over.
Buying a home costs less than in most towns: at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 3.1 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Its remaining grades are unremarkable: C+ for health and B− for walkability. A quarter of homes here are second homes.
Figures: prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · employment and commuting, INSEE census 2023 · deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025) · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025. Cransac-les-Thermes 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 3 things Cransac-les-Thermes does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Cransac-les-Thermes 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.
Cransac-les-Thermes has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents.
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The Culture ministry lists no building in Cransac-les-Thermes as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Église Saint-Blaise, in Aubin, 2.1 mi away.
25% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Explore the history →Other places to visit, museums and heritage in and near Cransac-les-Thermes. Best known first.
MuseumMusée de la mine Lucien Mazars2.9 km west, in AubinChurchChurchÉglise Notre-Dame-des-Mines d'Aubin2.3 km northwest, in AubinChurchChurchÉglise Saint-Amans du Fort2.7 km west, in AubinMuseumMuseumMusée du Patrimoine Industriel et Minier4.4 km northwest, in DecazevilleAttractionAttractionBuste de la vierge à l'enfant2.7 km west, in AubinPhotos from Wikimedia Commons, each under its own licence (our copy, resized).
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Cransac-les-Thermes.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
The median price, €1,029/m², comes from 68 sales of houses and apartments in Cransac-les-Thermes from July 2023 to June 2026. Of the homes sold, 87% were houses. House rents are put at about €6.46/m² a month.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €964/m² | 59 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Young adults of 15 to 24 are nearly one in ten residents, near Aveyron’s towns (8.9%) and lower than compared French towns (11%). Over-65s are just over a third of the population. Graduates make up 17% of adults.
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.
| Cransac-les-Thermes | Aveyron median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 12% | 14% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 8.8% | 8.9% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 16% | 21% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 29% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 35% | 30% | 22% |
| No diploma | 25% | 19% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 33% | 26% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 18% | 20% | 18% |
| Higher education | 17% | 29% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Aveyron median and France median: the median of compared communes
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
196 deaths in Cransac-les-Thermes between 2016 and 2025, where France’s rates at each age predict 214: 9% below. Life expectancy at birth in Aveyron is 85.1 years for women and 80 for men (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 across France. There are 2 general practitioners here.
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 figures behind this are our own model (TownRatings), not official statistics. A less sure grade: it could be anywhere from C− to B+.
Half of residents lived on more than €20,050 a year per consumption unit, below both Aveyron’s towns (€24,780) and compared French towns (€25,970). 6.9% of commuters left the car at home at the census, walking, cycling or taking public transport. At the census, 6.5% of working residents in Cransac-les-Thermes didn’t travel to work at all.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Nothing in Cransac-les-Thermes is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
5 notable people were born in Cransac-les-Thermes.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cransac-les-Thermes | 1,482 | — | — | A | — | C+ |
| Aubin | 3,444 | 1.6 | B | A+ | A+ | C+ |
| Decazeville | 5,020 | 3.2 | C | A | C | C |
| Capdenac-Gare | 4,440 | 11 | A | A | C+ | B |
| Figeac Lot | 9,793 | 14 | C+ | B− | D | C+ |
| Druelle Balsac | 3,187 | 15 | A+ | B+ | A+ | A |
| Villefranche-de-Rouergue | 11,271 | 17 | B+ | A− | C | B |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Cransac-les-Thermes has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. Recorded figures: an average of 2.9 recorded violent incidents and 8.7 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Homes cost less than in most compared French towns: the median sale price from July 2023 to June 2026 was €1,029/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns too, so Cransac-les-Thermes grades A for cost of living.
Commune in Aveyron, Occitanie
Cransac-les-Thermes is a commune of 1,482 people in the Communauté de communes Decazeville Communauté. 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 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.