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2,056 people live in this town in Gironde, Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
Prices are high against local incomes: at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 6.8 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. School results trail most towns: bac results 2.7 points below the expected rate; brevet results at the expected rate. The rest of its grades are middling: B− for safety and B− for walkability.
Figures: employment and commuting, INSEE census 2023 · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · brevet and bac results, Ministry of Education · recorded crime, SSMSI (Ministry of the Interior) · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025. Arveyres 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 one thing Arveyres does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Arveyres 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.
Arveyres 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 Arveyres as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Château de Vayres, in Vayres, 2 mi away.
23% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Explore the history →Heritage, museums and family days out in and near Arveyres. Best known first.
Art galleryMusée des Beaux-Arts de Libourne4 km northeast, in LibourneChâteauChâteauChâteau de Vayres3.3 km northwest, in VayresChâteauChâteauChâteau de la Dauphine4 km north, in FronsacTheme parkTheme parkVertigo Park4.3 km northeast, in LibourneMuseumMuseumChapelle du Carmel4.4 km northeast, in LibournePhotos from Wikimedia Commons, each under its own licence (our copy, resized).
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Arveyres.
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
At birth, a girl in Gironde can expect 86.4 years and a boy 81.3 (2025); across France, 85.9 and 80.3. 134 deaths in Arveyres between 2016 and 2025, where France’s rates at each age predict 173: 23% below. The town has one family doctor.
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 care-home figures behind this are our own model (TownRatings), not official statistics. A less sure grade: it could be anywhere from B− to A.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
Houses are advertised at an estimated €10.61/m² a month. The estimated advertised rent is €12.34/m² a month, below Gironde’s towns (€13.75/m²) and close to compared French towns (€12.41/m²). Arveyres recorded 59 home sales from July 2023 to June 2026.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €2,385/m² | 59 |
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.
At the three general lycées, 94% of 799 candidates passed the bac, 1.8 points below the expected rate.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Jean AuriacNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 161 | 86%−2 pts |
| Lycée polyvalent Jean MonnetNearest lycéeGeneral lycée | General lycée | 92 | 91%−2 pts |
| Collège Eugène AtgetBest against expectations: 5 points above the expected rateCollège | Collège | 70 | 94%+5 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
36% of adults hold a degree. Children under 15 make up 19%, higher than both Gironde’s towns (18%) and compared French towns (17%). At 44.4, the median resident of Arveyres sits in the middle of the age range.
49% women, 51% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Gironde 51.8%, France 51.8%.
| Arveyres | Gironde median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 19% | 18% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 7.9% | 10% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 24% | 24% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 26% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 23% | 20% | 22% |
| No diploma | 16% | 14% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 24% | 26% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 19% | 19% | 18% |
| Higher education | 36% | 34% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Gironde median and France median: the median of compared communes
6.0% of commuters walked, cycled or took the bus or train at the census, below both Gironde’s towns (11.1%) and compared French towns (13.4%). Per consumption unit, the median disposable income is €27,980 a year.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Over 2025, Arveyres logged 41 recorded offenses. The yearly rates for 2023–2025: 5.8 violent offenses and 15.4 graded property crimes per 1,000 residents. Of the graded crimes here, criminal damage came up most often (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 · When other physical violence, sexual violence and vehicle theft number five or fewer in a recent year, the figure is withheld, and the index uses the département’s average instead (18.1% of the index here). With more than 10% of the index estimated that way, this Safety Grade is less sure than most. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Nothing in Arveyres is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
3 notable people were born in Arveyres.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arveyres | 2,056 | — | — | C− | B− | A− |
| Vayres | 4,615 | 2.3 | C+ | C− | B | B |
| Libourne | 25,036 | 2.8 | C− | C− | D− | B |
| Izon | 6,374 | 4.4 | B | C− | A | C+ |
| Saint-Quentin-de-Baron | 2,713 | 4.6 | — | C− | — | B− |
| Beychac-et-Caillau | 2,625 | 5.1 | A− | C+ | B | A− |
| Saint-Sulpice-et-Cameyrac | 4,881 | 5.4 | A | C+ | A− | A− |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
It grades B− for safety. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 8 burglaries and 13 acts of criminal damage.
They grade C+, better than 39% of compared French towns. 91% of 92 candidates passed the bac at Lycée polyvalent Jean Monnet in 2025, 2 points below the expected rate given its pupils’ backgrounds. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Arveyres grades C− for cost of living.
Commune in Gironde, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Arveyres is a commune of 2,056 people in the Communauté d'agglomération du Libournais. 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.