Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
The town, home to 3,804 people, lies in Gironde, Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
Bouliac’s best grade is for jobs & income: 1.2 jobs per working resident; 5.4% unemployment. Overall, Bouliac earns a B, better than 62% of compared French towns. That places it #33 of 100 in Gironde. It also does well on health (B+): after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 19% below expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. The drawback is cost of living (D): at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 10.1 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Its remaining grades are unremarkable: B− for safety, B for schools and B for walkability.
Figures: employment and commuting, INSEE census 2023 · deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025) · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · recorded crime, SSMSI (Ministry of the Interior) · brevet and bac results, Ministry of Education · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas. The overall grade uses the other six subjects.
The 2 things Bouliac does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Bouliac 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.
How TownRatings grades French towns →
Bouliac has 1 historic monument on the Culture ministry’s list: 1 classé, the highest protection, and 0 inscrit, the second level.
The oldest protected part dates from the 10th century; the first monument here was protected in 1862.
Heritage, museums and gardens in and near Bouliac. Best known first.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Bouliac.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
The median price, €3,950/m², comes from 96 sales of houses and apartments in Bouliac from July 2023 to June 2026. Renting a house costs an estimated €14.01/m² a month. Houses accounted for 83% of sales, apartments for the rest.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €4,261/m² | 80 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
Average lifespans in Gironde: 86.4 years for women, 81.3 for men (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 nationally. Its care home for older people (80 places) counts its residents as Bouliac’s; allowing for it, deaths were 19% below expected. From 2016 to 2025, 371 residents of Bouliac died, against 367 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 1% more.
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 · Note: TownRatings models the care-home adjustment; it is not an official figure.
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Ranked by results, schools here are #30 of 93 in Gironde. A collège lies 1.7 mi away. At the general lycée, 100% of 311 candidates passed the bac, a point above the expected rate.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Georges RayetNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 117 | 92%+1 pt |
| Lycée privé Sainte-Marie Bastide PrivateNearest lycéeGeneral lycée | General lycée | 311 | 100%+1 pt |
| Lycée professionnel Émile CombesBest against expectations: 4 points above the expected rateVocational lycée | Vocational lycée | 65 | 91%+4 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
The jobless rate is 5.4%. At the census, 16.7% went to work on foot, by bike or by public transport, above both Gironde’s towns (11.1%) and compared French towns (13.4%).
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
The oldest protected building goes back to the 10th century. Among the classé monuments in Bouliac is Église Saint-Siméon. 6.9% of homes date from before 1919.
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
Half of Bouliac is older than 43.5, half younger. A fifth of residents are 65 or over, near Gironde’s towns (20%) and lower than compared French towns (22%). Young adults of 15 to 24 are 10% of the population.
49% women, 51% men
About 104 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Gironde 51.8%, France 51.8%.
| Bouliac | Gironde median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 18% | 18% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 10% | 10% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 25% | 24% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 27% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 20% | 20% | 22% |
| No diploma | 8.6% | 14% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 16% | 26% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 20% | 19% | 18% |
| Higher education | 52% | 34% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Gironde median and France median: the median of compared communes
Among the graded crimes in Bouliac, the most frequent was criminal damage (2025). All told, Bouliac had 89 recorded offenses in 2025. On average over 2023–2025, every 1,000 residents saw 2.8 violent offenses and 19.5 graded property crimes a year.
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 family violence, sexual violence, armed robbery and vehicle theft number five or fewer in a recent year, the figure is withheld, and the index uses the département’s average instead (9.8% of the index here). The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Bouliac has one historic monument; beside it, the nearest classé monuments in other towns, within 15.5 mi.
Église Saint-Siméon: Photo: William Ellison · CC BY-SA 4.0
Wikidata has nobody with a French article born in Bouliac 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bouliac | 3,804 | — | B | D | B− | B+ |
| Carignan-de-Bordeaux | 4,388 | 1.2 | A | C− | A− | A− |
| Floirac | 18,300 | 1.8 | D | C− | C− | B− |
| Latresne | 3,714 | 2 | A+ | C | A− | A |
| Tresses | 5,290 | 2.2 | B+ | C+ | B | A |
| Cenon | 26,834 | 2.6 | D | C− | D | B |
| Artigues-près-Bordeaux | 8,687 | 2.8 | C | C | C− | A− |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
It grades B− for safety, #52 of 100 in Gironde. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 17 burglaries and 36 acts of criminal damage.
They grade B, better than 62% of compared French towns and #30 of 93 in Gironde. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Homes cost more than in most compared French towns: the median sale price from July 2023 to June 2026 was €3,950/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Bouliac grades D for cost of living.
Commune in Gironde, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Bouliac is a commune of 3,804 people in the Bordeaux Métropole. 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.