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A town of 2,415 in Gironde, Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
Carcans has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents. Its weakest subject is cost of living (D): at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 11.1 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 Carcans does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Carcans 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 →
The Culture ministry lists no building in Carcans as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Église Notre-Dame de Benon, in Saint-Laurent-Médoc, 10.7 mi away.
2.9% 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 Carcans.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
Apartments in Carcans sell for €3,967/m², houses for €4,102/m². Houses made up just over three fifths of the homes sold; apartments the rest. Sales in the town from July 2023 to June 2026: 214 houses and apartments.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €4,102/m² | 130 |
| Apartments | €3,967/m² | 84 |
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.
For a family doctor, residents of Carcans have one GP on hand. Adjusted for age and care homes, Carcans records 99 deaths per 100 expected, higher than both Gironde’s towns (84) and compared French towns (88). France’s death rates at each age would predict 236 deaths in the town from 2016 to 2025; there were 234, 1% fewer. At birth, a girl in Gironde can expect 86.4 years and a boy 81.3 (2025); across France, 85.9 and 80.3.
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 step is TownRatings’ own calculation, not an official number.
Carcans’s tally for 2025: 72 recorded offenses. Per 1,000 residents a year, there were 11.7 cases of violence against people and 16.9 graded property crimes (2023–2025 average). In 2025, criminal damage led the graded crimes in the town.
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 vehicle theft number five or fewer in a recent year, the figure is withheld, and the index uses the département’s average instead (4.2% of the index here). The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
14% are under 15, lower than both Gironde’s towns (18%) and compared French towns (17%). Retirement age and beyond: 28% of residents are 65 or older. Degrees are held by 29% of adults.
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Gironde 51.8%, France 51.8%.
| Carcans | Gironde median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 14% | 18% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 7% | 10% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 19% | 24% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 32% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 28% | 20% | 22% |
| No diploma | 17% | 14% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 27% | 26% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 20% | 19% | 18% |
| Higher education | 29% | 34% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Gironde median and France median: the median of compared communes
Just over a tenth of the labour force were unemployed, above Gironde’s towns (9.7%) and compared French towns (10.1%) alike. Per resident in work, Carcans counts 0.6 jobs (550 jobs, 950 workers). The typical income here, after tax and benefits, is €27,080 a year per consumption unit.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Nothing in Carcans 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 Carcans 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carcans | 2,415 | — | — | D | C− | C− |
| Lacanau | 5,739 | 7.1 | C− | D− | D− | B+ |
| Hourtin | 4,045 | 7.5 | B− | D | A− | C |
| Sainte-Hélène | 3,091 | 11 | — | C− | — | A− |
| Saint-Laurent-Médoc | 4,914 | 12 | B | C | A+ | B |
| Listrac-Médoc | 2,807 | 13 | B− | C+ | A− | B− |
| Castelnau-de-Médoc | 4,907 | 13 | D | C | B+ | D |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
It grades C− for safety. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 11 burglaries and 20 acts of criminal damage.
Estimated advertised apartment rents are €12.62/m² a month, charges included. Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Carcans grades D for cost of living.
Commune in Gironde, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Carcans is a commune of 2,415 people in the Communauté de communes Médoc Atlantique. 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.