Sauve has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents. Its weakest subject is schools (D−): brevet results 11 points below the expected rate. At the median price of €2,032/m², a 70 m² home costs 6 times the median annual income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size) in the Communauté de communes du Piémont Cévenol. Its strongest is walkability (A−): 77% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 13% 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.
Each subject compares Sauve 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.
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Work & commuteJobs & income D
Sauve has higher unemployment than Gard’s towns or compared French towns: 15.4%
In the comparison, Sauve comes above both Gard’s towns (11.9%) and compared French towns (10.1%). Sauve has 600 jobs for 750 working residents, 0.8 per worker. The median disposable income is €22,940 a year per consumption unit.
13%walk, cycle or take transit
How working residents got to work · census 2023
Driving73%
On foot8%
Public transport3%
Bicycle2%
Motorbike or scooter1%
600
jobs based in Sauve, 0.8 per working resident
15.4%
unemployment rate, ages 15 to 64 in the labor force · median of compared French towns 10.1%
€22,940
median annual income per consumption unit, 2023 · median of compared French towns €25,970
12%
worked without traveling (at or from home)
A−
Walkability: better than 75% of compared French towns
INSEE, census 2023 · Gard median and France median: the median of compared communes
History
Old homes shape Sauve: 33% were built before 1919, more than in Gard’s towns or compared French towns
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
Sauve sits above both Gard’s towns (10%) and compared French towns (7.4%) on this measure. Part of the town has been a protected historic area, a site patrimonial remarquable, since 2001. The Culture ministry lists 4 historic monuments in Sauve: 1 classé (France’s highest heritage protection) and 3 inscrit (the second level).
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
HealthHealth C+
Sauve’s death rate, adjusted for age and care homes, is higher than in 57% of compared French towns
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
From 2016 to 2025, 258 residents of Sauve died, against 220 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 17% more. Its care home for older people (52 places) counts its residents as Sauve’s; allowing for it, deaths were 10% below expected. The adjustment lowers most towns’ figures, so the comparison is what counts: the median of compared French towns is 12% below expected. The care-home adjustment is a TownRatings modeling step, not an official statistic. A less sure grade: it could be anywhere from C− to B+.
−10%deaths against expected, after care homesC+Health Grade
Deaths per 100 expected · 2016–2025
Raw117
Adjusted90
Median town88
Expected100
4
GPs in Sauve · 5.1 GP consultations a year per resident within reach (APL)
12.5 mi
to the nearest emergency department, Clinique Saint Louis
15.9 mi
to the nearest maternity unit, Centre hospitalier Ales Cevennes
85.7 · 80.6
years of life expectancy at birth, women · men, Gard, 2025 (provisional) · France 85.9 · 80.3
Estimated advertised rents run lower in Sauve than in Gard’s towns or across compared French towns: €10.38/m² a month
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
That puts Sauve below both Gard’s towns (€12.19/m²) and compared French towns (€12.41/m²). The median price, €2,032/m², comes from 77 sales of houses and apartments in Sauve from July 2023 to June 2026.
€2,032/m²median sale price
Median sale price per m² · Jul 2023 to Jun 2026
Sauve€2,032/m²
Median of towns€2,430/m²
Gard median€2,553/m²
By type
Median per m²
Sales
Houses
€2,345/m²
52
€10.38/m²
estimated advertised apartment rent a month, charges included (€8.31 to €12.98/m² a month)
6
times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality, for 70 m² at the median price
€9.90/m²
estimated advertised house rent a month, charges included
€23,740
median annual income per consumption unit, Communauté de communes du Piémont Cévenol
Maison médiévale dite de l'Evêque: Photo: Finoskov · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Tour de Môle ou tour des Bermond: Photo: Eric Walter · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Oppidum préromain: Photo: Anthony Morel · CC BY-SA 4.0
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Questions about Sauve
Is Sauve safe?
Sauve has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. Recorded figures: an average of 3.5 recorded violent incidents and 11 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Are schools in Sauve good?
They grade D−, better than 3% of compared French towns. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Is Sauve expensive to live in?
Homes cost less than in most compared French towns: the median sale price from July 2023 to June 2026 was €2,032/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns too, so Sauve grades B− for cost of living.
About Sauve
Commune in Gard, Occitanie
Sauve is a commune of 1,988 people in the Communauté de communes du Piémont Cévenol. 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
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.
