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A town of 1,568 in Aveyron, Occitanie.
Creissels has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents. At the median price of €2,208/m², a 70 m² home costs 6.4 times the median annual income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size) in the Communauté de communes de Millau Grands Causses. Its strongest is health (A): after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 31% below expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas.
Each subject compares Creissels 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.
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The Culture ministry’s list holds 1 historic monument in Creissels; none is classé, France’s top protection.
12% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Museums, heritage and other places to visit in and near Creissels. Best known first.
Archaeological siteLa Graufesenque3 km northeast, in Millau
MuseumHôtel de Pégayrolles2.3 km northeast, in MillauTheme parkTheme parkLou pitchoolandin townAttractionAttractionOpgraving 1421 Grave from1421 Eglisein townGardenGardenJardin botanique des Causses2.2 km northeast, in MillauPhotos from Wikimedia Commons, each under its own licence (our copy, resized).
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Creissels.
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
Women in Aveyron live to 85.1 on average and men to 80 (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 across France. From 2016 to 2025, 105 residents of Creissels died, against 152 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 31% fewer. This Aveyron town has one family doctor.
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 · Allowing for care homes is a TownRatings estimate, not a published statistic.
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
For collège, the closest is 1.2 mi away.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Marcel AymardNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 171 | 91%±0 pts |
| Lycée général et technologique Jean VigoNearest lycéeGeneral lycée | General lycée | 133 | 95%−2 pts |
| Lycée professionnel Jean VigoBest against expectations: 9 points above the expected rateVocational lycée | Vocational lycée | 71 | 94%+9 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
34 sales of houses and apartments in Creissels, from July 2023 to June 2026, give the median of €2,208/m². Among the homes sold, 85% were houses.
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Just over a quarter of residents have reached 65. Children under 15 make up 17%, higher than Aveyron’s towns (14%) and near compared French towns (17%). Line up the people of Creissels by age and the one in the middle is 48.4.
52% women, 48% men
About 92 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Aveyron 52.1%, France 51.8%.
| Creissels | Aveyron median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 17% | 14% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 7.8% | 8.9% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 19% | 21% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 30% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 26% | 30% | 22% |
| No diploma | 17% | 19% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 31% | 26% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 21% | 20% | 18% |
| Higher education | 26% | 29% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Aveyron median and France median: the median of compared communes
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
The Culture ministry lists 1 historic monument in Creissels, none of them classé, France’s highest protection. 12% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
At the census, 8.2% went to work on foot, by bike or by public transport, below Aveyron’s towns (13.4%) and compared French towns (13.4%) alike. Per resident in work, Creissels counts 0.8 jobs (500 jobs, 650 workers). The median disposable income is €25,020 a year per consumption unit.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
The commonest graded crime in Creissels was criminal damage (2025). Police and gendarmerie recorded 17 offenses in the town in 2025. Graded property crimes ran at 11.4 per 1,000 residents a year, and violence against people at 2.7 (2023–2025 average).
Not in the gradeTheft without violence, drug use and fraud are shown for information but left out of the Safety Grade, which counts violence plus burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and criminal damage per resident.
Source: SSMSI (Interior Ministry), recorded crime by commune, 2023–2025 · Licence Ouverte · When family violence, other physical violence, sexual violence, vehicle theft and theft from vehicles number five or fewer in a recent year, the figure is withheld, and the index uses the département’s average instead (30.8% of the index here). The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Creissels has one historic monument; beside it, the nearest classé monuments in other towns, within 15.5 mi.
Ferme de Bel-Air: Photo: CptPixel · CC BY-SA 4.0
Wikidata has nobody with a French article born in Creissels yet.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Creissels | 1,568 | — | — | B+ | — | A |
| Millau | 22,044 | 1.4 | A− | B | B− | B+ |
| Saint-Affrique | 7,941 | 12 | A | A− | B− | B+ |
| Sévérac d'Aveyron | 4,026 | 17 | A+ | A | A− | B |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Creissels has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 8 burglaries and 9 acts of criminal damage.
They grade A−, better than 81% of compared French towns. 95% of 133 candidates passed the bac at Lycée général et technologique Jean Vigo in 2025, 2 points below the expected rate given its pupils’ backgrounds. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Prices are close to the median of compared French towns: the median sale price from July 2023 to June 2026 was €2,208/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns, so Creissels grades B+ for cost of living.
Commune in Aveyron, Occitanie
Creissels is a commune of 1,568 people in the Communauté de communes de Millau Grands Causses. 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.