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A town of 4,408 in Gard, Occitanie.
Caveirac has no overall grade because safety isn’t graded here. Its weakest subject is cost of living (D): at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 9.4 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Its strongest is health (A): after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 34% 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.
The one thing Caveirac does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Caveirac 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.
Caveirac has no overall grade because safety isn’t graded here.
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The Culture ministry lists 3 historic monuments in Caveirac: 2 classé (France’s highest heritage protection) and 1 inscrit (the second level).
The oldest protected part dates from Antiquity; the first monument here was protected in 1911.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Caveirac.
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
Caveirac sits below both Gard’s towns (90) and compared French towns (88) on this measure. From 2016 to 2025, 309 residents of Caveirac died, against 469 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 34% fewer. 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
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
That puts Caveirac above both Gard’s towns (€2,553/m²) and compared French towns (€2,430/m²).
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €3,127/m² | 110 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
The bac pass rate near Caveirac is 77.0%, below both Gard’s towns (94.6%) and compared French towns (92.9%).
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Théodore MonodNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 133 | 83%−9 pts |
| Lycée professionnel Gaston DarbouxNearest lycéeVocational lycée | Vocational lycée | 163 | 77%+2 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
On this, Caveirac is above both Gard’s towns (27%) and compared French towns (30%). Those 65 and older account for 29% of residents.
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.
| Caveirac | Gard median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 15% | 17% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 8% | 9.5% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 21% | 21% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 27% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 29% | 24% | 22% |
| No diploma | 13% | 20% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 21% | 26% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 22% | 19% | 18% |
| Higher education | 39% | 27% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Gard median and France median: the median of compared communes
In the comparison, Caveirac comes above both Gard’s towns (€24,880) and compared French towns (€25,970). Caveirac has 1,050 jobs for 1,750 working residents, 0.6 per worker.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
The Culture ministry lists 3 historic monuments in Caveirac: 2 classé (France’s highest heritage protection) and 1 inscrit (the second level).
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
Police and gendarmerie recorded 28 offenses in the graded categories in Caveirac in 2025. For family violence, other physical violence, sexual violence, vehicle theft and theft from vehicles, this figure isn’t published when it’s small (five or fewer in at least one of the last three years); the index uses the département’s average instead, 29.3% of the index here.
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
Other places to visit, heritage and museums in and near Caveirac. Best known first.
The Culture ministry lists 3 historic monuments in Caveirac: 2 classé (France’s highest heritage protection) and 1 inscrit (the second level).
Église Saint-Adrien: Photo: Finoskov · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Borne milliaire au nom d'Auguste: Photo: Daniel VILLAFRUELA . · CC BY-SA 3.0
Wikidata has nobody with a French article born in Caveirac yet.
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more. The map uses IGN’s commune boundaries. See them on the map →
Caveirac has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. Recorded figures: an average of 1.4 recorded violent incidents and 6.3 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 13 burglaries and 15 acts of criminal damage.
They grade C−, better than 18% of compared French towns and #35 of 53 in Gard. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Estimated advertised apartment rents are €13.16/m² a month, charges included. Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Caveirac grades D for cost of living.
Commune in Gard, Occitanie
Caveirac is a commune of 4,408 people in the Communauté d'agglomération de Nîmes Métropole. 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.
