Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
With 1,247 residents, it is a town in Gironde, Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
Marsas’s weakest subject is schools: brevet results 11.6 points below the expected rate. Walkability is weaker too (D) — one in ten residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 6% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. Prices are high against local incomes: A year’s estimated rent on a 70 m² apartment is 42% of the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality.
Figures: brevet and bac results, Ministry of Education · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · commuting, INSEE census 2023 · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi. Marsas 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 Marsas 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.
Marsas 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 Marsas as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Église Notre-Dame, in Peujard, 3.6 mi away.
22% 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 Marsas.
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
For the general bac, the closest lycée is 6.1 mi away.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Philippe MadrelleNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 151 | 69%−19 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Unemployment stands at 8.3%. 5.6% of commuters walked, cycled or took the bus or train at the census, lower than both Gironde’s towns (11.1%) and compared French towns (13.4%). 250 jobs are based in Marsas, for 600 working residents (0.4 per worker). Households’ median disposable income: €25,300 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.
21 houses and apartments changed hands in Marsas from July 2023 to June 2026. A house rents for an estimated €9.97/m² a month.
Source: Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Degrees are held by nearly a quarter of adults. 17% of residents are 65 or over, below both Gironde’s towns (20%) and compared French towns (22%). Those aged 15 to 24 account for 8.9% of residents.
49% women, 51% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Gironde 51.8%, France 51.8%.
| Marsas | Gironde median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 21% | 18% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 8.9% | 10% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 25% | 24% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 28% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 17% | 20% | 22% |
| No diploma | 15% | 14% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 35% | 26% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 22% | 19% | 18% |
| Higher education | 24% | 34% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Gironde median and France median: the median of compared communes
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
From 2016 to 2025, 79 residents of Marsas died, against 89 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 11% fewer. The nearest emergency department to Marsas is Centre hospitalier Robert Boulin Libourne, 12.5 mi away. There are 2 general practitioners locally. In Gironde, women can expect to live 86.4 years and men 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 · TownRatings makes the care-home adjustment itself; it is a model, not an official statistic. A less sure grade: it could be anywhere from D to A−.
Nothing in Marsas is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
One notable person was born in Marsas.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marsas | 1,247 | — | — | C− | — | B− |
| Cézac | 2,727 | 3.1 | — | C | — | D |
| Val de Virvée | 3,793 | 3.2 | B− | C+ | A | B |
| Laruscade | 2,811 | 3.8 | — | B | — | B− |
| Saint-Yzan-de-Soudiac | 2,586 | 5.5 | C− | C+ | B+ | D− |
| Saint-André-de-Cubzac | 12,626 | 5.6 | C− | C | D | C− |
| La Lande-de-Fronsac | 2,729 | 5.7 | — | C | — | C |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Marsas has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. Recorded figures: an average of 5.5 recorded violent incidents and 8.5 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
They grade D−, better than 1% of compared French towns. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Commune in Gironde, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Marsas is a commune of 1,247 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) · 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.