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This town in Gironde, Nouvelle-Aquitaine has a population of 2,332.
Cissac-Médoc’s lowest grade is for cost of living (C): at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 6.3 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. It is hard to get around without a car: 35% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 6% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. Incomes are on the low side: 0.7 jobs per working resident; 12.2% unemployment.
Figures: prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · commuting and employment, INSEE census 2023. Cissac-Médoc 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.
Each subject compares Cissac-Médoc 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.
Cissac-Médoc has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents.
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The Culture ministry lists 1 historic monument in Cissac-Médoc, none of them classé, France’s highest protection.
The oldest protected part dates from the 12th century; the first monument here was protected in 1925.
15% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Heritage and museums in and near Cissac-Médoc. Best known first.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Cissac-Médoc.
Walking, cycling and public transport carried 5.7% of commuters at the census. Households’ median disposable income: €25,690 a year per consumption unit.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
For a house, the estimated advertised rent is €9.67/m² a month. Houses were 97% of what sold. The estimated advertised rent is €12.62/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 | €2,140/m² | 67 |
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.
France’s death rates at each age would predict 152 deaths in Cissac-Médoc from 2016 to 2025; there were 144, 5% fewer. The nearest emergency department to Cissac-Médoc is Clinique Mutualiste du Medoc, 7 mi away. 3 GPs practise locally. Women in Gironde live to 86.4 on average and men to 81.3 (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 across France.
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 adjustment for care homes is TownRatings’ own modeling, not an official figure. A less sure grade: it could be anywhere from D to B.
People aged 15 to 24 make up nearly a tenth of the town, lower than both Gironde’s towns (10%) and compared French towns (11%). 20% of residents are children under 15. Half of Cissac-Médoc is older than 43.2, half younger.
49% women, 51% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Gironde 51.8%, France 51.8%.
| Cissac-Médoc | Gironde median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 20% | 18% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 8.5% | 10% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 24% | 24% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 29% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 19% | 20% | 22% |
| No diploma | 21% | 14% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 36% | 26% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 18% | 19% | 18% |
| Higher education | 19% | 34% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Gironde median and France median: the median of compared communes
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
The Culture ministry lists 1 historic monument in Cissac-Médoc, none of them classé, France’s highest protection. The oldest protected building goes back to the 12th century.
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
The yearly rates for 2023–2025: 5.8 violent offenses and 9.4 graded property crimes per 1,000 residents. Cissac-Médoc’s tally for 2025: 43 recorded offenses. Of the graded crimes locally, 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 · Small counts of sexual violence, armed robbery, vehicle theft and theft from vehicles go unpublished (five or fewer in at least one of the last three years); the département’s average stands in, 27.8% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Cissac-Médoc has one historic monument; beside it, the nearest classé monuments in other towns, within 15.5 mi.
Église Notre-Dame: Photo: Unozoe · CC BY-SA 3.0
Wikidata has nobody with a French article born in Cissac-Médoc 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cissac-Médoc | 2,332 | — | — | C | — | C |
| Pauillac | 5,190 | 4.7 | C− | B | D | C− |
| Saint-Laurent-Médoc | 4,914 | 5.8 | B | C | A+ | B |
| Lesparre-Médoc | 5,872 | 6.7 | D | C+ | D | C− |
| Listrac-Médoc | 2,807 | 11 | B− | C+ | A− | B− |
| Hourtin | 4,045 | 11 | B− | D | A− | C |
| Blaye | 5,066 | 11 | D− | C+ | D− | C |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Cissac-Médoc has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 9 burglaries and 18 acts of criminal damage.
Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns too, so Cissac-Médoc grades C for cost of living.
Commune in Gironde, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Cissac-Médoc is a commune of 2,332 people in the Communauté de communes Médoc Cœur de Presqu'île. 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.