Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
A town of 1,735 in Gard, Occitanie.
Fons has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents. Its weakest subject is cost of living (C−): at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 7.6 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 44% 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 Fons 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.
How TownRatings grades French towns →
The Culture ministry lists no building in Fons as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Oppidum de Mauressip ou Mouressipe, in Saint-Côme-et-Maruéjols, 5.3 mi away.
14% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Fons.
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
Fons sits below both Gard’s towns (90) and compared French towns (88) on this measure. From 2016 to 2025, 129 residents of Fons died, against 149 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 13% 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 is the middle of 45 sales of houses and apartments in Fons from July 2023 to June 2026, against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns and €2,553/m² for the median of compared towns in Gard.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €2,501/m² | 45 |
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.
That puts Fons close to Gard’s towns (85.0%) and below compared French towns (87.5%).
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Frédéric DesmonsNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 107 | 85%−5 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
On this, Fons is below both Gard’s towns (11.9%) and compared French towns (10.1%). Fons has 200 jobs for 750 working residents, 0.3 per worker. 4.9% of commuters went to work on foot, by bike or by public transport at the census.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
In the comparison, Fons comes above both Gard’s towns (17%) and compared French towns (17%). 19% of residents are 65 or over.
52% women, 48% men
About 92 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Gard 51.9%, France 51.8%.
| Fons | Gard median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 22% | 17% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 9.7% | 9.5% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 25% | 21% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 24% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 19% | 24% | 22% |
| No diploma | 18% | 20% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 23% | 26% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 20% | 19% | 18% |
| Higher education | 33% | 27% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Gard median and France median: the median of compared communes
Nothing in Fons is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
Wikidata has nobody with a French article born in Fons 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fons | 1,735 | — | — | C− | — | A+ |
| Saint-Geniès-de-Malgoirès | 3,225 | 2.8 | C− | C | B | C+ |
| La Calmette | 2,604 | 3.6 | C | C− | B | B+ |
| Clarensac | 4,386 | 5.8 | — | D | — | A+ |
| Caveirac | 4,408 | 6.6 | — | D | — | A |
| Calvisson | 6,486 | 8.4 | C | C− | B+ | C+ |
| Nîmes | 151,839 | 9.4 | D | C− | D | C+ |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Fons has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. Recorded figures: an average of 3.7 recorded violent incidents and 8.6 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
They grade C−, better than 17% of compared French towns. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Estimated advertised apartment rents are €12.93/m² a month, charges included. Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Fons grades C− for cost of living.
Commune in Gard, Occitanie
Fons is a commune of 1,735 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.