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A town of 1,511 in Gers, Occitanie.
Masseube has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents. Its weakest subject is jobs & income (C−): 1.2 jobs per working resident; 12.0% unemployment. Its strongest is cost of living (A): at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 3.2 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas.
The 2 things Masseube does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Masseube 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 Masseube, none of them classé, France’s highest protection.
The oldest protected part dates from the 18th century; the first monument here was protected in 1979.
25% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Masseube.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
For Masseube, that is below both Gers’ towns (€9.96/m²) and compared French towns (€12.41/m²). The median price, €1,105/m², comes from 54 sales of houses and apartments in Masseube from July 2023 to June 2026.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €1,031/m² | 47 |
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.
Masseube sits above both Gers’ towns (91.0%) and compared French towns (87.5%) on this measure.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Simone VeilNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 50 | 96%+2 pts |
| Collège Saint-Christophe PrivateBest against expectations: 5 points above the expected rateCollège | Collège | 56 | 93%+5 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
11% of residents are 15 to 24 and 33% are 65 or over, against 8.5% and 34% in the median compared commune of Gers. 23% of adults who have left education hold a higher-education diploma (Gers 24%, France 30%).
53% women, 47% men
About 90 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.
| Masseube | Gers median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 13% | 13% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 11% | 8.5% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 18% | 18% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 25% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 33% | 34% | 22% |
| No diploma | 22% | 25% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 25% | 24% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 20% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 23% | 24% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Gers median and France median: the median of compared communes
Police and gendarmerie recorded 22 offenses in the graded categories in Masseube in 2025. Violence against people ran at 7.9 per 1,000 residents a year and the graded property crimes at 7.3 (2023–2025 average). For family violence, other physical violence, burglary and vehicle theft, 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, 20.1% of the index here. Because that share is over 10%, this Safety Grade is less sure than most.
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
That puts Masseube below both Gers’ towns (€23,470) and compared French towns (€25,970). Unemployment stands at 12.0%.
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.
On this, Masseube is above both Gers’ towns (85) and compared French towns (88). From 2016 to 2025, 378 residents of Masseube died, against 314 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 20% more. 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.
In the comparison, Masseube comes above both Gers’ towns (21%) and compared French towns (7.4%). The Culture ministry lists 1 historic monument in Masseube, none of them classé, France’s highest protection.
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
Masseube has one historic monument; beside it, the nearest classé monuments in other towns, within 15.5 mi.
Wikidata places 1 person here, but the articles don’t both confirm Masseube as the birthplace, so nobody is listed.
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. With 650 jobs for 550 working residents, Masseube draws people from neighboring communes, and crimes are counted in the commune where they happen, then divided by its number of residents.
They grade A, better than 91% of compared French towns. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Homes cost less than in most compared French towns: the median sale price from July 2023 to June 2026 was €1,105/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns too, so Masseube grades A for cost of living.
Commune in Gers, Occitanie
Masseube is a commune of 1,511 people in the Communauté de communes Val de Gers. 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.