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It is a town of 1,174 residents in Gironde, Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
Residents are healthier than most: after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 21% below expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. At the median price of €2,148/m², a 70 m² home costs 6.1 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the Communauté d'agglomération du Libournais. Jobs and pay trail most towns (C+): 0.5 jobs per working resident; 10.4% unemployment. The rest of its grades are middling: B− for schools and C+ for walkability.
Figures: deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025) · employment and commuting, INSEE census 2023 · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · brevet and bac results, Ministry of Education · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025. Les Billaux 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 Les Billaux 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.
Les Billaux has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents.
How TownRatings grades French towns →
The Culture ministry lists no building in Les Billaux as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Église Saint-Jean, in Lalande-de-Pomerol, 1.1 mi away.
Explore the history →Heritage, museums and family days out in and near Les Billaux. Best known first.
Art galleryMusée des Beaux-Arts de Libourne4.9 km south, in LibourneChâteauChâteauChâteau de Sales1.6 km south, in LibourneChâteauChâteauChâteau du Pintey2.8 km south, in LibourneWater parkWater parkLa calinésie1.9 km southwest, in LibourneChâteauChâteauChâteau Mazeyres2.9 km south, in LibournePhotos from Wikimedia Commons, each under its own licence (our copy, resized).
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Les Billaux.
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
In Gironde, women can expect to live 86.4 years and men 81.3 (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 across France. From 2016 to 2025, 89 residents of Les Billaux died, against 113 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 21% fewer. There is one general practitioner locally.
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. A less sure grade: it could be anywhere from C+ to A.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
The median price, €2,148/m², comes from 46 sales of houses and apartments in Les Billaux from July 2023 to June 2026. Houses accounted for 70% of sales, apartments for the rest.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €2,071/m² | 32 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Public transport took 6.4% of Les Billaux’s working residents to work at the census. At the census, 3.9% of working residents in Les Billaux didn’t travel to work at all. Households’ median disposable income: €27,210 a year per consumption unit.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
The closest collège is 0.8 mi off.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Les DagueysNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 112 | 88%−2 pts |
| Lycée Max LinderNearest lycéeGeneral lycée | General lycée | 561 | 93%−2 pts |
| Collège Eugène AtgetBest against expectations: 5 points above the expected rateCollège | Collège | 70 | 94%+5 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
People aged 15 to 24 make up a tenth of the town, below both Gironde’s towns (10%) and compared French towns (11%). 29% of adults hold a degree. Half the people of Les Billaux are older than 45.4.
52% women, 48% men
About 91 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Gironde 51.8%, France 51.8%.
| Les Billaux | Gironde median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 16% | 18% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 9.8% | 10% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 23% | 24% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 29% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 22% | 20% | 22% |
| No diploma | 15% | 14% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 27% | 26% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 24% | 19% | 18% |
| Higher education | 29% | 34% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Gironde median and France median: the median of compared communes
Nothing in Les Billaux 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 Les Billaux 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Les Billaux | 1,174 | — | — | C+ | — | B+ |
| Saint-Denis-de-Pile | 5,955 | 2.8 | B | C+ | A− | B− |
| Galgon | 3,144 | 2.9 | — | B− | — | B |
| Libourne | 25,036 | 3 | C− | C− | D− | B |
| Vayres | 4,615 | 5.9 | C+ | C− | B | B |
| Izon | 6,374 | 6.7 | B | C− | A | C+ |
| La Lande-de-Fronsac | 2,729 | 7.6 | — | C | — | C |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Les Billaux has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. Recorded figures: an average of 5.8 recorded violent incidents and 17.2 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
They grade B−, better than 52% of compared French towns. 93% of 561 candidates passed the bac at Lycée Max Linder in 2025, 2 points below the expected rate given its pupils’ backgrounds. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Homes cost less than in most compared French towns: the median sale price from July 2023 to June 2026 was €2,148/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Les Billaux grades C+ for cost of living.
Commune in Gironde, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Les Billaux is a commune of 1,174 people in the Communauté d'agglomération du Libournais. 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.