Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
A town of 8,908 in Gard, Occitanie.
Les Angles grades B+ overall: better than 71% of compared French towns, and #4 of 60 in Gard. Its weakest subject is cost of living (D): at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 9.6 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Its strongest is walkability (A): 90% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 14% 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 overall grade uses the other six subjects.
The one thing Les Angles does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Les Angles 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 1 historic monument in Les Angles: 1 classé (France’s highest heritage protection) and 0 inscrit (the second level).
The oldest protected part dates from the 14th century; the first monument here was protected in 1912.
1.7% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Museums, heritage and other places to visit in and near Les Angles. Best known first.
AttractionPalais des papes3.2 km east, in Avignon
CathedralCathédrale Notre-Dame-des-Doms d'Avignon3.2 km east, in Avignon
MuseumMusée du Petit Palais3.1 km east, in Avignon
AttractionFort Saint-André2.8 km east, in Villeneuve-lès-Avignon
MuseumMusée Calvet3.1 km east, in AvignonPhotos from Wikimedia Commons, each under its own licence (our copy, resized).
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Les Angles.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
On this, Les Angles is above both Gard’s towns (€12.19/m²) and compared French towns (€12.41/m²). The median price, €3,188/m², comes from 356 sales of houses and apartments in Les Angles from July 2023 to June 2026. Houses in Les Angles sell for €3,429/m² and apartments for €2,936/m².
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €3,429/m² | 190 |
| Apartments | €2,936/m² | 166 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
In the comparison, Les Angles comes above both Gard’s towns (€24,880) and compared French towns (€25,970). Les Angles has 3,650 jobs for 3,600 working residents, 1 per worker. Unemployment stands at 9.6%.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
For Les Angles, that is above both Gard’s towns (24%) and compared French towns (22%). Children under 15 make up 13% of residents.
54% women, 46% men
About 84 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.
| Les Angles | Gard median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 13% | 17% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 7.8% | 9.5% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 21% | 21% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 26% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 33% | 24% | 22% |
| No diploma | 14% | 20% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 19% | 26% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 19% | 19% | 18% |
| Higher education | 42% | 27% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Gard median and France median: the median of compared communes
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Les Angles sits above both Gard’s towns (85.0%) and compared French towns (87.5%) on this measure.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège du MourionNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 227 | 94%−1 pt |
| Lycée Frédéric MistralNearest lycéeGeneral lycée | General lycée | 273 | 98%+1 pt |
| Collège Anselme MathieuBest against expectations: 17 points above the expected rateCollège | Collège | 92 | 83%+17 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
That puts Les Angles below both Gard’s towns (90) and compared French towns (88). From 2016 to 2025, 1,107 residents of Les Angles died, against 1,322 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 16% 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
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
The Culture ministry lists 1 historic monument in Les Angles: 1 classé (France’s highest heritage protection) and 0 inscrit (the second level). 1.7% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
Police and gendarmerie recorded 214 offenses in the graded categories in Les Angles in 2025. For other physical violence, sexual violence and armed robbery, 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, 2.3% 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
Les Angles has one historic monument; beside it, the nearest classé monuments in other towns, within 15.5 mi.
Wikidata has nobody with a French article born in Les Angles 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Les Angles | 8,908 | — | B+ | D | B− | A− |
| Villeneuve-lès-Avignon | 13,148 | 1.1 | A− | D | B+ | A |
| Avignon Vaucluse | 92,188 | 3.3 | D | C− | D− | C |
| Pujaut | 3,982 | 3.4 | A | D | A | A− |
| Rochefort-du-Gard | 8,117 | 3.6 | C− | D | B | B+ |
| Barbentane Bouches-du-Rhône | 4,266 | 4 | B+ | D | B+ | A− |
| Rognonas Bouches-du-Rhône | 4,261 | 4.4 | B+ | D | B+ | A− |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
It grades B− for safety, #37 of 60 in Gard. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 74 burglaries and 88 acts of criminal damage.
They grade A−, better than 81% of compared French towns and #7 of 53 in Gard. The lycée stands out: 98% of 273 candidates passed the bac at Lycée Frédéric Mistral in 2025, a point above the expected rate given its pupils’ backgrounds. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Homes cost more than in most compared French towns: the median sale price from July 2023 to June 2026 was €3,188/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Les Angles grades D for cost of living.
Commune in Gard, Occitanie
Les Angles is a commune of 8,908 people in the Communauté d'agglomération du Grand Avignon (COGA). 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.