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A town of 1,608 in Gard, Occitanie.
Barjac has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents. Its weakest subject is health (D): after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 9% above expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. At the median price of €2,338/m², a 70 m² home costs 7.6 times the median annual income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size) in the Communauté de communes de Cèze Cévennes. Its strongest is walkability (B): 59% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 10% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas.
The 2 things Barjac does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Barjac 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 lists 2 historic monuments in Barjac: 1 classé (France’s highest heritage protection) and 1 inscrit (the second level).
The oldest protected part dates from prehistory; the first monument here was protected in 1889.
24% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Heritage, other places to visit and museums in and near Barjac. Best known first.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Barjac.
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
In the comparison, Barjac comes above both Gard’s towns (90) and compared French towns (88). From 2016 to 2025, 304 residents of Barjac died, against 240 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 27% more. The care-home adjustment is a TownRatings modeling step, not an official statistic.
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
For Barjac, that is above both Gard’s towns (24%) and compared French towns (22%). Children are 12% of the town.
52% women, 48% men
About 93 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Gard 51.9%, France 51.8%. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
| Barjac | Gard median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 12% | 17% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 7.1% | 9.5% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 15% | 21% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 32% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 34% | 24% | 22% |
| No diploma | 20% | 20% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 26% | 26% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 18% | 19% | 18% |
| Higher education | 27% | 27% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Gard median and France median: the median of compared communes
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
Barjac sits below both Gard’s towns (€12.19/m²) and compared French towns (€12.41/m²) on this measure. The median price, €2,338/m², comes from 65 sales of houses and apartments in Barjac from July 2023 to June 2026.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €2,671/m² | 55 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
That puts Barjac above both Gard’s towns (10%) and compared French towns (7.4%). The Culture ministry lists 2 historic monuments in Barjac: 1 classé (France’s highest heritage protection) and 1 inscrit (the second level). Among the classé monuments in Barjac is Groupe de trois dolmens.
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
On this, Barjac is above both Gard’s towns (11.9%) and compared French towns (10.1%). Barjac has 650 jobs for 500 working residents, 1.3 per worker. The median disposable income is €22,610 a year per consumption unit.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
The list names few of Barjac’s 2 monuments; beside them, the nearest classé monuments in other towns, within 15.5 mi.
Groupe de trois dolmens: Photo: Fab5669 · CC BY-SA 3.0
Wikidata has nobody with a French article born in Barjac 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barjac | 1,608 | — | — | C | — | D |
| Saint-Ambroix | 3,445 | 8.3 | D− | B | C− | D |
| Bessèges | 2,606 | 12 | C+ | A | C+ | D |
| Les Vans Ardèche | 2,662 | 12 | C | C | C | B |
| Rousson | 4,456 | 13 | D | C− | A+ | C+ |
| Salindres | 3,648 | 13 | D− | C− | B | D |
| Pont-Saint-Esprit | 10,958 | 15 | B− | B− | B− | C+ |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Barjac has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. Recorded figures: an average of 4.1 recorded violent incidents and 10.9 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, so Barjac grades C for cost of living.
Commune in Gard, Occitanie
Barjac is a commune of 1,608 people in the Communauté de communes de Cèze Cévennes. 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.