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A town of 4,348 in Gard, Occitanie.
Poulx grades B+ overall: better than 70% of compared French towns, and #5 of 60 in Gard. 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 safety (A+): an average of 3.3 recorded violent incidents and 7.7 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas. The overall grade uses the other six subjects.
The 2 things Poulx does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Poulx 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 1 historic monument in Poulx, none of them classé, France’s highest protection.
The oldest protected part dates from the 12th century; the first monument here was protected in 1972.
1.9% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Poulx.
55 offenses were reported in Poulx during 2025. This Gard town ranks first of the 60 compared towns in Gard on the Safety Grade. Of the graded crimes in the town, criminal damage came up most often (2025).
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 · For other physical violence, sexual violence, vehicle theft and theft from vehicles, the count isn’t published when it’s small (five or fewer in a year of the last three), so the index uses the département’s average, 15.8% of the index here. With more than 10% of the index estimated that way, this Safety Grade is less sure than most. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
For a house, the estimated advertised rent is €11.46/m² a month. Houses made up 98% of the homes sold; apartments the rest. From July 2023 to June 2026, 114 homes were sold in Poulx.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €3,116/m² | 112 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
The nearest emergency department to Poulx is Polyclinique Grand Sud Nimes, 7 mi away. 290 deaths locally between 2016 and 2025, where France’s rates at each age predict 346: 16% below. In Gard, women can expect to live 85.7 years and men 80.6 (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 across France. This Gard town has 3 family doctors.
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.
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
Homes from before 1919 make up 1.9% of the total, below both Gard’s towns (10%) and compared French towns (7.4%). The protected list starts in the 12th century.
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
Poulx holds 350 jobs; 1,900 of its residents are in work, so 0.2 jobs each. Unemployment stands at 8.0%. 5.6% of commuters walked, cycled or took the bus or train at the census, close to Gard’s towns (8.1%) and below compared French towns (13.4%).
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Young adults of 15 to 24 are 8.7% of residents, below Gard’s towns (9.5%) and compared French towns (11%) alike. 16% of residents are children under 15. The median resident of Poulx is 49 years old.
51% women, 49% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Gard 51.9%, France 51.8%.
| Poulx | Gard median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 16% | 17% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 8.7% | 9.5% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 20% | 21% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 31% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 24% | 24% | 22% |
| No diploma | 9.8% | 20% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 20% | 26% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 21% | 19% | 18% |
| Higher education | 43% | 27% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Gard median and France median: the median of compared communes
Poulx has one historic monument; beside it, the nearest classé monuments in other towns, within 15.5 mi.
Église Saint-Michel: Photo: Gérard JOYON · CC BY-SA 3.0
Wikidata has nobody with a French article born in Poulx yet.
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more. The map uses IGN’s commune boundaries. See them on the map →
It grades A+ for safety, #1 of 60 in Gard. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 8 burglaries and 32 acts of criminal damage.
Estimated advertised apartment rents are €12.61/m² a month, charges included. Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Poulx grades D for cost of living.
Commune in Gard, Occitanie
Poulx is a commune of 4,348 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.