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Home to 1,102 people, this town lies in Gard, Occitanie.
Health outcomes beat most towns: after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 15% below expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. Most journeys need a car: 55% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 6% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. Homes sell for a median €2,047/m²: 70 m² comes to 6.7 years of the median income per consumption unit in the Communauté de communes de Cèze Cévennes.
Figures: deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025) · employment and commuting, INSEE census 2023 · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi. Gagnières 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 Gagnières does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Gagnières 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.
Gagnières 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 Gagnières as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Croix de cimetière, in Saint-André-de-Cruzières, 4.4 mi away.
28% 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 Gagnières.
Degrees are held by a fifth of adults, below Gard’s towns (27%) and compared French towns (30%) alike. Retirement age and beyond: 29% of residents are 65 or older. The 15-to-24 age group makes up 9% of residents.
52% women, 48% men
About 94 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.
| Gagnières | Gard median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 13% | 17% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 9% | 9.5% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 18% | 21% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 31% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 29% | 24% | 22% |
| No diploma | 22% | 20% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 32% | 26% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 19% | 19% | 18% |
| Higher education | 20% | 27% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Gard median and France median: the median of compared communes
Households’ median disposable income: €21,230 a year per consumption unit. 5.7% of commuters walked, cycled or took the bus or train at the census, below Gard’s towns (8.1%) and compared French towns (13.4%) alike. At the census, 7.6% of working residents in Gagnières didn’t travel to work at all.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
Average lifespans in Gard: 85.7 years for women, 80.6 for men (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 nationally. 136 deaths in Gagnières between 2016 and 2025, where France’s rates at each age predict 160: 15% below. The nearest emergency department to Gagnières is Centre hospitalier Ales Cevennes, 11.3 mi away. The town has one family doctor.
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 · TownRatings makes the care-home adjustment itself; it is a model, not an official statistic. A less sure grade: it could be anywhere from C to A−.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
Behind the median of €2,047/m²: 56 houses and apartments sold in Gagnières between July 2023 and June 2026. Among the homes sold, 86% were houses. House rents are put at about €6.53/m² a month.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €2,169/m² | 48 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Museums, heritage and other places to visit in and near Gagnières. Best known first.
Nothing in Gagnières is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
Wikidata places 1 person here, but the articles don’t both confirm Gagnières as the birthplace, so nobody is listed.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gagnières | 1,102 | — | — | C+ | — | B |
| Bessèges | 2,606 | 1.9 | C+ | A | C+ | D |
| Saint-Ambroix | 3,445 | 5 | D− | B | C− | D |
| Les Vans Ardèche | 2,662 | 6.5 | C | C | C | B |
| La Grand-Combe | 4,783 | 8.2 | C | A | C− | C− |
| Rousson | 4,456 | 8.7 | D | C− | A+ | C+ |
| Saint-Julien-les-Rosiers | 3,533 | 9.3 | — | C | — | C |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Gagnières has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. Recorded figures: an average of 5.8 recorded violent incidents and 9.6 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Homes cost less than in most compared French towns: the median sale price from July 2023 to June 2026 was €2,047/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns too, so Gagnières grades C+ for cost of living.
Commune in Gard, Occitanie
Gagnières is a commune of 1,102 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 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.