Auzances has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents. Its weakest subject is health (C−): after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 1% below expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. Its strongest is cost of living (A+): at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 1.7 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.
Each subject compares Auzances 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
Older residents shape Auzances: 39% are 65 or over, above Creuse’s towns and compared French towns
Children under 15 count for just over a tenth of the people here. The 15-to-24 age group: 8.1%, below both Creuse’s towns (11%) and compared French towns (11%). 17% of adults hold a degree.
58median age
AuzancesCreuse medianFrance median
Ages · share of residents
39%
Under 1515–2425–4445–6465+
Highest diploma · residents 15 and older who have left education
No diploma30%
CAP or BEP27%
Baccalauréat18%
Higher education17%
Women and men · all residents
55% women, 45% men
WomenFrance medianMen
About 82 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Creuse 52.8%, France 51.8%. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
INSEE, census 2023 · Creuse median and France median: the median of compared communes
Work & commuteJobs & income C+
Getting about on foot is easier in Auzances than in 92% of compared French towns
Per consumption unit, the median disposable income is €23,050 a year. Unemployment stood at 10.0%, about level with compared French towns (10.1%) and below Creuse’s towns (15.4%). Jobs based in Auzances number 650, against 400 residents in work (1.7 per worker).
19%walk, cycle or take transit
How working residents got to work · census 2023
Driving73%
On foot17%
Bicycle2%
Public transport1%
Motorbike or scooter0%
650
jobs based in Auzances, 1.7 per working resident
10.0%
unemployment rate, ages 15 to 64 in the labor force · median of compared French towns 10.1%
€23,050
median annual income per consumption unit, 2023 · median of compared French towns €25,970
8%
worked without traveling (at or from home)
A
Walkability: better than 92% of compared French towns
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
HealthHealth C−
Auzances is 16.8 mi from the nearest emergency department
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
Weighed against its ages and care homes, Auzances records 99 deaths per 100 expected. There is one general practitioner locally. At birth, a girl in Creuse can expect 84.6 years and a boy 77.5 (2025); across France, 85.9 and 80.3. From 2016 to 2025, 332 residents of Auzances died, against 231 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 44% more.
−1%deaths against expected, after care homesC−Health Grade
Deaths per 100 expected · 2016–2025
Raw144
Adjusted99
Median town88
Expected100
1
GPs in Auzances · 2.5 GP consultations a year per resident within reach (APL)
16.8 mi
to the nearest emergency department, Site Croix Blanche Ch Aubusson
22.3 mi
to the nearest maternity unit, Centre hospitalier de Montlucon
84.6 · 77.5
years of life expectancy at birth, women · men, Creuse, 2025 (provisional) · France 85.9 · 80.3
Auzances keeps more of its old housing than Creuse’s towns or compared French towns: 17% built before 1919
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
The earliest of these monuments dates from Antiquity. The Culture ministry’s list holds 1 historic monument in Auzances; none is classé, France’s top protection.
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
Safety
Auzances has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average
Each year (2023–2025 average), violence against people came to 4.6 per 1,000 residents and the graded property crimes to 5.6. Auzances’s tally for 2025: 13 recorded offenses. Among the graded crimes here, the most frequent was criminal damage (2025).
4.6recorded violent incidents per 1,000 residents a year
Recorded by type · 2025
Criminal damage8
Family violence5
Armed robbery0
Fraud6
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.
4.6
recorded violent incidents per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025 average
5.6
recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025 average
13
offenses recorded in the graded categories in 2025
62.5%
of the index rests on the département’s average, used where small counts aren’t published
Source: SSMSI (Interior Ministry), recorded crime by commune, 2023–2025 · Licence Ouverte · Small counts of other physical violence, sexual violence, burglary, vehicle theft and theft from vehicles go unpublished (five or fewer in at least one of the last three years); the département’s average stands in, 62.5% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Questions about Auzances
Is Auzances safe?
Auzances has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average.
Is Auzances expensive to live in?
Homes cost less than in most compared French towns: the median sale price from July 2023 to June 2026 was €531/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns too, so Auzances grades A+ for cost of living.
About Auzances
Commune in Creuse, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Auzances is a commune of 1,129 people in the Communauté de communes Marche et Combraille en Aquitaine. 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
Population
1,129 (INSEE, census 2023)
Intercommunality
Communauté de communes Marche et Combraille en Aquitaine
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.
