Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Some 2,727 people live in this town, in Gironde, Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
Buying 70 m² at the median €2,226/m² takes 6.4 years of the median income per consumption unit in the Communauté de communes Latitude Nord Gironde. Its weakest subject is jobs & income — 0.2 jobs per working resident; 9.3% unemployment. It also trails on health — after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 6% above expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. Only 15% of residents are 65 or over.
Figures: prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi. Cézac has no overall grade because safety and schools aren’t graded here.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas.
The 2 things Cézac does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Cézac 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.
Cézac has no overall grade because safety and schools aren’t graded here.
How TownRatings grades French towns →
The Culture ministry lists no building in Cézac as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Église de Magrigne ou Chapelle Sainte-Quitterie, in Saint-Laurent-d'Arce, 3.5 mi away.
18% 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 Cézac.
On foot, by bike or by bus and train: that was how 5.5% of commuters travelled at the census. Half of residents lived on more than €24,980 a year per consumption unit, about level with compared French towns (€25,970) and below Gironde’s towns (€27,420). The jobless rate is 9.3%.
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.
The nearest emergency department to Cézac is Centre hospitalier de la Haute Gironde, 11.5 mi away. From 2016 to 2025, 159 residents of Cézac died, against 150 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 6% more. Life expectancy in Gironde: 86.4 years for women and 81.3 for men (2025); France averages 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 adjustment is a TownRatings modeling step, not an official statistic.
Over-65s are 15% of the population. Just over a tenth of the population is aged 15 to 24, about level with compared French towns (11%) and above Gironde’s towns (10%). Graduates make up 25% of adults.
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Gironde 51.8%, France 51.8%.
| Cézac | Gironde median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 21% | 18% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 11% | 10% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 26% | 24% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 27% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 15% | 20% | 22% |
| No diploma | 18% | 14% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 28% | 26% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 24% | 19% | 18% |
| Higher education | 25% | 34% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Gironde median and France median: the median of compared communes
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
A house rents for an estimated €10.87/m² a month. Cézac recorded 66 home sales from July 2023 to June 2026. The estimated advertised rent is €12.34/m² a month, about level with compared French towns (€12.41/m²) and below Gironde’s towns (€13.75/m²).
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €2,226/m² | 66 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
In 2025, burglary led the graded crimes in Cézac. The town’s tally for 2025: 31 recorded offenses. Violence against people ran at 3.5 per 1,000 residents a year and the graded property crimes at 10.2 (2023–2025 average).
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 · For other physical violence, sexual violence, vehicle theft and theft from vehicles, 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, 25.8% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Nothing in Cézac 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 Cézac 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cézac | 2,727 | — | — | C | — | D |
| Saint-Savin | 3,582 | 3.7 | B− | B− | A− | C+ |
| Saint-Yzan-de-Soudiac | 2,586 | 3.8 | C− | C+ | B+ | D− |
| Laruscade | 2,811 | 4.5 | — | B | — | B− |
| Val de Virvée | 3,793 | 5.2 | B− | C+ | A | B |
| Saint-André-de-Cubzac | 12,626 | 6.6 | C− | C | D | C− |
| Ambès | 3,313 | 7.4 | D | B+ | C | C− |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Cézac has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 14 burglaries and 6 acts of criminal damage.
Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns, so Cézac grades C for cost of living.
Commune in Gironde, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Cézac is a commune of 2,727 people in the Communauté de communes Latitude Nord Gironde. 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.