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With 1,446 residents, it is a town in Aveyron, Occitanie. People aged 65 and over make up 34% of residents.
Montbazens’s strongest subject is cost of living — at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 4.3 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Health is its weak spot: after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 8% below expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. Its remaining grades are unremarkable: C+ for jobs & income and C+ for walkability. Homes sell for a median €1,511/m².
Figures: prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025) · employment and commuting, INSEE census 2023 · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025. Montbazens 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 2 things Montbazens does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Montbazens 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.
Montbazens has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents.
How TownRatings grades French towns →
The Culture ministry lists no building in Montbazens as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Église Saint-Blaise, in Aubin, 3.6 mi away.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Montbazens.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
Renting a house costs an estimated €7.19/m² a month. The market in Montbazens: 49 sales of houses and apartments between July 2023 and June 2026. Among the homes sold, 80% were houses.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €1,502/m² | 39 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
17% of residents are children under 15. People 65 and over make up 34% of the town, above Aveyron’s towns (30%) and compared French towns (22%) alike. Ages in Montbazens split evenly at 51.8: half are older, half younger.
52% women, 48% men
About 90 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.
| Montbazens | Aveyron median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 17% | 14% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 6.7% | 8.9% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 18% | 21% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 25% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 34% | 30% | 22% |
| No diploma | 23% | 19% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 29% | 26% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 20% | 20% | 18% |
| Higher education | 22% | 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.
Montbazens has 2 family doctors. The nearest emergency department to Montbazens is Centre hospitalier Pierre Delpech Decazeville, 6.6 mi away. France’s death rates at each age would predict 261 deaths in the town from 2016 to 2025; there were 297, 14% more. Life expectancy in Aveyron: 85.1 years for women and 80 for men (2025); France averages 85.9 and 80.3.
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 adjustment is a TownRatings modeling step, not an official statistic. A less sure grade: it could be anywhere from C− to B.
Half of residents lived on more than €24,310 a year per consumption unit, close to Aveyron’s towns (€24,780) and below compared French towns (€25,970). Jobs based in Montbazens number 550, against 500 residents in work (1.1 per worker). At the census, 5.7% of working residents in Montbazens 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 Montbazens is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
One notable person was born in Montbazens.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Montbazens | 1,446 | — | — | A | — | C+ |
| Aubin | 3,444 | 4.5 | B | A+ | A+ | C+ |
| Decazeville | 5,020 | 6.2 | C | A | C | C |
| Capdenac-Gare | 4,440 | 9.6 | A | A | C+ | B |
| Villefranche-de-Rouergue | 11,271 | 13 | B+ | A− | C | B |
| Figeac Lot | 9,793 | 13 | C+ | B− | D | C+ |
| Druelle Balsac | 3,187 | 15 | A+ | B+ | A+ | A |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Montbazens has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. Recorded figures: an average of 3 recorded violent incidents and 3.5 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 Montbazens grades A for cost of living.
Commune in Aveyron, Occitanie
Montbazens is a commune of 1,446 people in the Communauté de communes du Plateau de Montbazens. 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.