Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
A town of 4,950 in Gironde, Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
Créon grades B− overall: better than 51% of compared French towns, and #47 of 100 in Gironde. Its weakest subject is cost of living (C): at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 7 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Its strongest is walkability (A−): 79% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 12% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas. The overall grade uses the other six subjects.
Each subject compares Créon 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.
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The Culture ministry’s list holds 1 historic monument in Créon; none is classé, France’s top protection.
The oldest protected part dates from the 15th century; the first monument here was protected in 2002.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Créon.
1,800 jobs are based in Créon, for 2,150 working residents (0.8 per worker). Half of residents lived on more than €25,020 a year per consumption unit, about level with compared French towns (€25,970) and below Gironde’s towns (€27,420). Public transport took 5.7% of the town’s working residents to work at the census.
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.
Houses accounted for 86% of sales, apartments for the rest. Advertised rents are estimated at €13.18/m² a month, about level with Gironde’s towns (€13.75/m²) and above compared French towns (€12.41/m²). A house rents for an estimated €11.03/m² a month.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €2,733/m² | 163 |
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 504 deaths in Créon from 2016 to 2025; there were 539, 7% more. Its two care homes for older people (132 places) count their residents as Créon’s; allowing for them, deaths were 16% below expected. The nearest emergency department to Créon is Nouvelle clinique Bordeaux Tondu, 9.6 mi away. This Gironde town has 39 family doctors.
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 · This figure includes a care-home adjustment that TownRatings models; no official statistic exists.
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
The protected list starts in the 15th century. Homes from before 1919 make up 7.7% of the total, above Gironde’s towns (5.8%) and close to compared French towns (7.4%).
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
General-bac pupils go 9.7 mi to the nearest lycée. The town’s schools place #32 of 93 in Gironde on results.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège François MitterrandNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 228 | 91%−2 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Nearly a quarter of residents are 65 or over, above Gironde’s towns (20%) and close to compared French towns (22%). Half of Créon is older than 44.9, half younger. Children under 15 count for 17% of the people here.
54% women, 46% men
About 84 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Gironde 51.8%, France 51.8%.
| Créon | Gironde median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 17% | 18% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 11% | 10% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 23% | 24% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 27% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 23% | 20% | 22% |
| No diploma | 19% | 14% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 30% | 26% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 19% | 19% | 18% |
| Higher education | 26% | 34% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Gironde median and France median: the median of compared communes
All told, Créon had 96 recorded offenses in 2025. Per 1,000 residents a year, there were 8.2 cases of violence against people and 13.6 graded property crimes (2023–2025 average). Criminal damage topped the graded crimes in Créon (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 · For sexual violence, the count isn’t published when it’s small (five or fewer in a year of the last three), so the index uses the département’s average, 1.8% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Heritage and museums in and near Créon. Best known first.
Créon has one historic monument; beside it, the nearest classé monuments in other towns, within 15.5 mi.
Église Notre-Dame: Photo: Ophelia2 · CC BY-SA 3.0
2 notable people were born in Créon.
Nicolas Thierry: Greenbox, CC BY-SA 4.0
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Créon | 4,950 | — | B− | C | B− | B |
| Sadirac | 4,769 | 2.6 | A− | C | A+ | B |
| Saint-Caprais-de-Bordeaux | 3,450 | 4.2 | — | C+ | — | B |
| Saint-Quentin-de-Baron | 2,713 | 4.5 | — | C− | — | B− |
| Sallebœuf | 2,767 | 5.3 | — | C+ | — | B− |
| Fargues-Saint-Hilaire | 3,543 | 5.7 | A− | C | A− | C |
| Camblanes-et-Meynac | 3,181 | 6.2 | A | C− | A− | B |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
It grades B− for safety, #50 of 100 in Gironde. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 18 burglaries and 34 acts of criminal damage.
They grade B, better than 58% of compared French towns and #32 of 93 in Gironde. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns, so Créon grades C for cost of living.
Commune in Gironde, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Créon is a commune of 4,950 people in the Communauté de communes du Créonnais. 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.