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The town has 1,401 residents and lies in Gers, Occitanie.
Where it does best is cost of living (A) — at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 4 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Walkability is weaker too (C): nearly four in five residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 5% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. Homes sell for a median €1,406/m².
Figures: prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · employment and commuting, INSEE census 2023 · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025. Barcelonne-du-Gers 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 Barcelonne-du-Gers does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Barcelonne-du-Gers 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.
Barcelonne-du-Gers 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 Barcelonne-du-Gers as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Ancienne cathédrale Saint-Jean-Baptiste, in Aire-sur-l'Adour, 1.6 mi away.
11% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Explore the history →Heritage in and near Barcelonne-du-Gers. Best known first.
Monastery or conventCarmel Saint-Joseph2.5 km west, in Aire-sur-l'AdourManor houseManor houseChâteau de Lahitte2.4 km northeast, in VergoignanPhotos from Wikimedia Commons, each under its own licence (our copy, resized).
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Barcelonne-du-Gers.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
Houses were 88% of what sold. Between July 2023 and June 2026, buyers took 59 homes in Barcelonne-du-Gers.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €1,308/m² | 52 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
On average over 2023–2025, every 1,000 residents saw 2.5 violent offenses and 12.1 graded property crimes a year. All told, Barcelonne-du-Gers had 16 recorded offenses in 2025. Burglary topped the graded crimes in Barcelonne-du-Gers (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 family violence, other physical violence, sexual violence, vehicle theft and theft from vehicles go unpublished (five or fewer in at least one of the last three years); the département’s average stands in, 23.6% of the index here. Because that share is over 10%, this Safety Grade is less sure than most. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Vocational results within 5 km: 90% passed the bac pro, of 84 candidates at 2 lycées. The town’s pupils have a collège 2.5 mi away. At the general lycée, 97% of 149 candidates passed the bac, a point below the expected rate.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Gaston CrampeNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 77 | 96%+2 pts |
| Lycée polyvalent Gaston CrampeNearest lycéeGeneral lycée | General lycée | 149 | 97%−1 pt |
| Lycée professionnel Jean d'ArcetBest against expectations: 5 points above the expected rateVocational lycée | Vocational lycée | 44 | 89%+5 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Those aged 15 to 24 account for nearly one in ten residents. Children under 15 make up 14%, near Gers’ towns (13%) and lower than compared French towns (17%). The median resident of Barcelonne-du-Gers is 53.9 years old.
54% women, 46% men
About 86 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Gers 52.4%, France 51.8%. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
| Barcelonne-du-Gers | Gers median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 14% | 13% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 8.6% | 8.5% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 18% | 18% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 27% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 33% | 34% | 22% |
| No diploma | 21% | 25% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 27% | 24% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 21% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 24% | 24% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Gers median and France median: the median of compared communes
12.2% of the labour force are out of work. Half of residents lived on more than €24,390 a year per consumption unit, close to Gers’ towns (€23,470) and below compared French towns (€25,970).
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.
From 2016 to 2025, 166 residents of Barcelonne-du-Gers died, against 190 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 13% fewer. Life expectancy in Gers: 85.5 years for women and 80.8 for men (2025); France averages 85.9 and 80.3. One GP practises here.
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 · The adjustment for care homes is TownRatings’ own modeling, not an official figure. A less sure grade: it could be anywhere from C to A−.
Nothing in Barcelonne-du-Gers is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
Wikidata has nobody with a French article born in Barcelonne-du-Gers 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barcelonne-du-Gers | 1,401 | — | — | A | A− | B− |
| Aire-sur-l'Adour Landes | 6,211 | 1.7 | B+ | B+ | B− | C− |
| Villeneuve-de-Marsan Landes | 2,508 | 14 | — | B− | — | B |
| Saint-Sever Landes | 5,043 | 18 | A | B+ | A | C− |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
It grades A− for safety. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 10 burglaries and 6 acts of criminal damage.
They grade A−, better than 82% of compared French towns. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns too, so Barcelonne-du-Gers grades A for cost of living.
Commune in Gers, Occitanie
Barcelonne-du-Gers is a commune of 1,401 people in the Communauté de communes d'Aire-sur-l'Adour. 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.