Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
3,225 people call this town in Gard, Occitanie home.
Prices are high against local incomes (C): at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 7.1 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. It is easy to get around without a car: just over nine in ten residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 10% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. The overall grade lands at C−, #41 of 60 in Gard. On that grade it does better than 23% of compared French towns. The rest of its grades are middling: B for safety and C+ for health.
Figures: amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · commuting and employment, INSEE census 2023 · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · recorded crime, SSMSI (Ministry of the Interior) · deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025).
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas. The overall grade uses the other six subjects.
Each subject compares Saint-Geniès-de-Malgoirès 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 one thing Saint-Geniès-de-Malgoirès does most differently from other towns.
The Culture ministry lists no building in Saint-Geniès-de-Malgoirès as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Domaine de la Tour, in Saint-Chaptes, 3.6 mi away.
14% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Explore the history →Nothing in Saint-Geniès-de-Malgoirès is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Saint-Geniès-de-Malgoirès.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
89 sales of houses and apartments in Saint-Geniès-de-Malgoirès, from July 2023 to June 2026, give the median of €2,352/m². From July 2023 to June 2026, 89 homes were sold here. Houses were 87% of what sold.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €2,372/m² | 77 |
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.
General-bac pupils go 10 mi to the nearest lycée. Ranked by results, schools here are #29 of 53 in Gard.
| 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
Half of residents lived on more than €23,370 a year per consumption unit, below both Gard’s towns (€24,880) and compared French towns (€25,970). 4.1% of Saint-Geniès-de-Malgoirès’ working residents had no journey to work at the census.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
People aged 15 to 24 are just over a tenth of the population. 18% of residents are 65 or over, lower than both Gard’s towns (24%) and compared French towns (22%). Typical age in Saint-Geniès-de-Malgoirès: 41.2, the median.
53% women, 47% men
About 90 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Gard 51.9%, France 51.8%.
| Saint-Geniès-de-Malgoirès | Gard median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 19% | 17% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 12% | 9.5% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 24% | 21% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 27% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 18% | 24% | 22% |
| No diploma | 20% | 20% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 28% | 26% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 20% | 19% | 18% |
| Higher education | 26% | 27% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Gard median and France median: the median of compared communes
Recorded offenses in Saint-Geniès-de-Malgoirès came to 83 in 2025. Violence against people averaged 7.4 per 1,000 residents a year over 2023–2025; graded property crimes averaged 11.2. Among the graded crimes in the town, the most frequent was criminal damage (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 · Small counts of sexual violence, burglary and vehicle theft go unpublished (five or fewer in at least one of the last three years); the département’s average stands in, 15.9% of the index here. That estimated share passes 10%, so treat this Safety Grade with more caution than most. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
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. 315 deaths in Saint-Geniès-de-Malgoirès between 2016 and 2025, where France’s rates at each age predict 276: 14% above. Its care home for older people (62 places) counts its residents as Saint-Geniès-de-Malgoirès’; allowing for it, deaths were 10% below expected. There are 4 general practitioners in the town.
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 · That adjustment for care homes is a model of TownRatings’ own, not official data.
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2 notable people were born in Saint-Geniès-de-Malgoirès.
Commune in Gard, Occitanie
Saint-Geniès-de-Malgoirès is a commune of 3,225 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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Geniès-de-Malgoirès | 3,225 | — | C− | C | B | C+ |
| La Calmette | 2,604 | 2.9 | C | C− | B | B+ |
| Clarensac | 4,386 | 8.4 | — | D | — | A+ |
| Caveirac | 4,408 | 8.7 | — | D | — | A |
| Poulx | 4,348 | 10 | B+ | D | A+ | A− |
| Nîmes | 151,839 | 10 | D | C− | D | C+ |
| Quissac | 3,528 | 11 | C | C | A− | B− |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
It grades B for safety, #23 of 60 in Gard.
They grade C, better than 28% of compared French towns and #29 of 53 in Gard. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Prices are close to the median of compared French towns: the median sale price from July 2023 to June 2026 was €2,352/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns, so Saint-Geniès-de-Malgoirès grades C for cost of living.
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.