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Population 1,719: a town in Gironde, Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
Buying 70 m² at the median €2,429/m² takes 6 years of the median income per consumption unit in the Communauté de communes Médoc Estuaire. Getting around depends on the car (D−). Jobs and pay trail most towns: 0.3 jobs per working resident; 9.3% unemployment.
Figures: amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · commuting and employment, INSEE census 2023 · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi. Soussans 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 Soussans 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.
Soussans 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 Soussans as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Église Saint-Didier, in Margaux-Cantenac, 2.7 mi away.
15% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Explore the history →Heritage in and near Soussans. Best known first.
ChâteauChâteau Margaux2.6 km east, in Margaux-Cantenac
ChâteauChâteau Rauzan-Ségla2.6 km southeast, in Margaux-Cantenac
ChâteauChâteau Lascombes1.7 km southeast, in Margaux-Cantenac
ChâteauChâteau Palmer2.9 km southeast, in Margaux-Cantenac
ChâteauChâteau Cantenac Brown3.1 km southeast, in Margaux-CantenacPhotos from Wikimedia Commons, each under its own licence (our copy, resized).
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Soussans.
On foot, by bike or by bus and train: that was how 3.5% of commuters travelled at the census. Unemployment stood at 9.3%, close to Gironde’s towns (9.7%) and below compared French towns (10.1%). Median disposable income comes to €26,360 a year per consumption unit.
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.
111 deaths in Soussans between 2016 and 2025, where France’s rates at each age predict 117: 5% below. Ages and care homes taken into account, deaths in Soussans come to 95 per 100 predicted. Also worth knowing: 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 · That adjustment for care homes is a model of TownRatings’ own, not official data. A less sure grade: it could be anywhere from D to B+.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
The estimated advertised rent is €13.89/m² a month, close to Gironde’s towns (€13.75/m²) and above compared French towns (€12.41/m²). House rents are put at about €11.91/m² a month. Houses made up 98% of the homes sold; apartments the rest.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €2,403/m² | 52 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Retirement age and beyond: nearly a fifth of residents are 65 or older. Typical age in Soussans: 41.4, the median. Under 15: 18% of residents.
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Gironde 51.8%, France 51.8%.
| Soussans | Gironde median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 18% | 18% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 11% | 10% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 27% | 24% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 26% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 19% | 20% | 22% |
| No diploma | 21% | 14% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 33% | 26% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 19% | 19% | 18% |
| Higher education | 22% | 34% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Gironde median and France median: the median of compared communes
For 2025, the figures show 12 offenses in Soussans. On average over 2023–2025, every 1,000 residents saw 6.4 violent offenses and 6.4 graded property crimes a year. The commonest graded crime here was family violence (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 other physical violence, sexual violence, vehicle theft, theft from vehicles and criminal damage, 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, 50.3% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Nothing in Soussans 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 Soussans 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Soussans | 1,719 | — | — | C | — | C |
| Margaux-Cantenac | 2,845 | 1.4 | A | C+ | A− | A− |
| Avensan | 3,140 | 3.1 | — | C− | — | C+ |
| Arsac | 4,124 | 3.9 | A− | C− | A− | B+ |
| Macau | 4,576 | 5.1 | A− | C | A− | A− |
| Listrac-Médoc | 2,807 | 5.1 | B− | C+ | A− | B− |
| Castelnau-de-Médoc | 4,907 | 5.2 | D | C | B+ | D |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Soussans has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average.
Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Soussans grades C for cost of living.
Commune in Gironde, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Soussans is a commune of 1,719 people in the Communauté de communes Médoc Estuaire. 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.