Cheap to live in, with trade-offs. Its best grade is for schools (A): brevet results 2 points above the expected rate. Incomes are on the low side (C): 1.1 jobs per working resident; 11.1% unemployment. Homes sell for a median €1,454/m²: 70 m² comes to 4.4 years of the median income per consumption unit in the Communauté de communes Artagnan de Fezensac. The overall grade comes out at A, #5 of 9 in Gers. That leaves it better than 86% of compared French towns. The rest of its grades are middling: B for safety, B− for health and B for walkability.
Figures: prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi.
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 Vic-Fezensac 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
Who lives here
Vic-Fezensac has fewer young adults than Gers’ towns or compared French towns: 7.6% are 15 to 24
Children under 15 make up 13% of residents. People 65 and over make up 34% of the town, about level with Gers’ towns (34%) and above compared French towns (22%). Vic-Fezensac has a median age of 53.7.
53.7median age
Vic-FezensacGers medianFrance median
Ages · share of residents
34%
Under 1515–2425–4445–6465+
Highest diploma · residents 15 and older who have left education
No diploma28%
CAP or BEP26%
Baccalauréat17%
Higher education24%
Women and men · all residents
53% women, 47% men
WomenFrance medianMen
About 88 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.
INSEE, census 2023 · Gers median and France median: the median of compared communes
HousingCost of living A−
Estimated advertised rents run lower in Vic-Fezensac than in Gers’ towns or across compared French towns: €9.15/m² a month
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
Behind the median of €1,454/m²: 126 houses and apartments sold in Vic-Fezensac between July 2023 and June 2026. Houses accounted for 96% of sales, apartments for the rest.
€1,454/m²median sale price
Median sale price per m² · Jul 2023 to Jun 2026
Vic-Fezensac€1,454/m²
Median of towns€2,430/m²
Gers median€1,500/m²
By type
Median per m²
Sales
Houses
€1,452/m²
121
€9.15/m²
estimated advertised apartment rent a month, charges included (€7.35 to €11.38/m² a month)
4.4
times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality, for 70 m² at the median price
€7.40/m²
estimated advertised house rent a month, charges included
€23,360
median annual income per consumption unit, Communauté de communes Artagnan de Fezensac
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Safety
Vic-Fezensac has less crime per resident than 64% of compared French towns
On average over 2023–2025, every 1,000 residents saw 4.9 violent offenses and 13.6 graded property crimes a year. Police and gendarmerie recorded 68 offenses in Vic-Fezensac in 2025. Among the graded crimes here, the most frequent was criminal damage (2025).
4.9recorded violent incidents per 1,000 residents a yearBSafety Grade
Recorded by type · 2025
Criminal damage32
Family violence17
Other physical violence12
Burglary7
Armed robbery0
Drug use52
Theft without violence17
Fraud17
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.
4.9
recorded violent incidents per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025 average
13.6
recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025 average
68
offenses recorded in the graded categories in 2025
6.9%
of the index rests on the département’s average, used where small counts aren’t published
Source: SSMSI (Interior Ministry), recorded crime by commune, 2023–2025 · Licence Ouverte · When sexual violence, vehicle theft and theft from vehicles number five or fewer in a recent year, the figure is withheld, and the index uses the département’s average instead (6.9% of the index here). The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Work & commuteJobs & income C
Incomes in Vic-Fezensac are lower than in 90% of French communes of 1,000+
The median disposable income was €22,880 a year per consumption unit, near Gers’ towns (€23,470) and lower than compared French towns (€25,970). 4.3% of Vic-Fezensac’s working residents had no journey to work at the census. The unemployment rate comes to 11.1%.
12%walk, cycle or take transit
How working residents got to work · census 2023
Driving83%
On foot10%
Bicycle1%
Public transport1%
Motorbike or scooter0%
1,500
jobs based in Vic-Fezensac, 1.1 per working resident
11.1%
unemployment rate, ages 15 to 64 in the labor force · median of compared French towns 10.1%
€22,880
median annual income per consumption unit, 2023 · median of compared French towns €25,970
4%
worked without traveling (at or from home)
B
Walkability: better than 60% of compared French towns
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
History
2 historic monuments, none of them classé
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
Homes from before 1919 make up 21% of the total, about level with Gers’ towns (21%) and above compared French towns (7.4%). The earliest of these monuments dates from the 16th century.
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
HealthHealth B−
More deaths than expected: Vic-Fezensac is above 53% of compared French towns once ages and care homes are allowed for
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
There are 3 general practitioners in Vic-Fezensac. Its two care homes for older people (169 places) count their residents as Vic-Fezensac’s; allowing for them, deaths were 11% below expected. France’s death rates at each age would predict 660 deaths here from 2016 to 2025; there were 734, 11% more. The nearest emergency department to Vic-Fezensac is Centre hospitalier de Condom, 14.2 mi away.
−11%deaths against expected, after care homesB−Health Grade
Deaths per 100 expected · 2016–2025
Raw111
Adjusted89
Median town88
Expected100
3
GPs in Vic-Fezensac · 4 GP consultations a year per resident within reach (APL)
14.2 mi
to the nearest emergency department, Centre hospitalier de Condom
16.3 mi
to the nearest maternity unit, Centre hospitalier D Auch En Gascogne
85.5 · 80.8
years of life expectancy at birth, women · men, Gers, 2025 (provisional) · France 85.9 · 80.3
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Questions about Vic-Fezensac
Is Vic-Fezensac safe?
It grades B for safety, #3 of 9 in Gers. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 7 burglaries and 32 acts of criminal damage.
Are schools in Vic-Fezensac good?
They grade A, better than 89% of compared French towns and #1 of 11 in Gers. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Is Vic-Fezensac expensive to live in?
Homes cost less than in most compared French towns: the median sale price from July 2023 to June 2026 was €1,454/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns too, so Vic-Fezensac grades A− for cost of living.
About Vic-Fezensac
Commune in Gers, Occitanie
Vic-Fezensac is a commune of 3,577 people in the Communauté de communes Artagnan de Fezensac. 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.
