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Home to 1,124 people, this town lies in Gironde, Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
Virelade’s strongest subject is health: after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 30% below expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. Where it falls short is jobs & income — 0.1 jobs per working resident; 9.1% unemployment. At €2,206/m², the median price, 70 m² costs 6 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the Communauté de communes Convergence Garonne. It also trails on schools — brevet results 5 points below the expected rate.
Figures: deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025) · employment, INSEE census 2023 · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · brevet and bac results, Ministry of Education. Virelade 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.
The one thing Virelade does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Virelade 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.
Virelade has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents.
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Virelade has 1 historic monument on the Culture ministry’s list, none at the highest level (classé).
The oldest protected part dates from the 19th century; the first monument here was protected in 2010.
18% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Heritage, museums and gardens in and near Virelade. Best known first.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Virelade.
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
The nearest emergency department to Virelade is Ch Sud Gironde Langon la Reole site Langon, 10.6 mi away. Adjusted mortality locally: 70 deaths for every 100 expected. 55 deaths in the town between 2016 and 2025, where France’s rates at each age predict 78: 30% below. 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 care-home adjustment is a TownRatings modeling step, not an official statistic. A less sure grade: it could be anywhere from B to A+.
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
The town’s pupils have a collège 1.7 mi away. General-bac pupils go 6.7 mi to the nearest lycée.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Georges BrassensNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 142 | 87%−5 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
2.7% of Virelade’s working residents had no journey to work at the census. Unemployment stood at 9.1%, below both Gironde’s towns (9.7%) and compared French towns (10.1%). The typical income here, after tax and benefits, is €26,420 a year per consumption unit.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
Protection here reaches back to the 19th century. Virelade has 1 historic monument on the Culture ministry’s list, none at the highest level (classé).
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
32 sales of houses and apartments in Virelade, from July 2023 to June 2026, give the median of €2,206/m². From July 2023 to June 2026, 32 homes were sold locally.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €2,206/m² | 32 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
9.6% of the population is aged 15 to 24, lower than both Gironde’s towns (10%) and compared French towns (11%). Half the people of Virelade are older than 42.7. People 65 and over make up a fifth of the town.
49% women, 51% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Gironde 51.8%, France 51.8%.
| Virelade | Gironde median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 19% | 18% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 9.6% | 10% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 25% | 24% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 26% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 20% | 20% | 22% |
| No diploma | 12% | 14% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 31% | 26% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 22% | 19% | 18% |
| Higher education | 31% | 34% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Gironde median and France median: the median of compared communes
2025 saw 18 offenses recorded in Virelade. On average over 2023–2025, every 1,000 residents saw 6.1 violent offenses and 13.2 graded property crimes a year. More of the graded crimes in the town were burglary than anything else (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 family violence, other physical violence, sexual violence, vehicle theft and theft from vehicles, this figure isn’t published when it’s small (five or fewer in at least one of the last three years); the index uses the département’s average instead, 60.1% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Virelade has one historic monument; beside it, the nearest classé monuments in other towns, within 15.5 mi.
Château de Virelade: Photo: Henry Salomé · CC BY-SA 3.0
Wikidata has nobody with a French article born in Virelade 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Virelade | 1,124 | — | — | C+ | — | A |
| Podensac | 3,269 | 1.4 | C | C+ | C | C |
| Portets | 2,618 | 2.7 | — | C− | — | B |
| Castres-Gironde | 2,695 | 3.8 | — | C+ | — | C+ |
| Cadillac-sur-Garonne | 2,670 | 3.8 | D | B− | D | D− |
| Saint-Selve | 3,746 | 4.8 | — | C | — | B |
| Saint-Caprais-de-Bordeaux | 3,450 | 6.6 | — | C+ | — | B |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Virelade 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 9 acts of criminal damage.
They grade C−, better than 22% of compared French towns. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Prices are close to the median of compared French towns: the median sale price from July 2023 to June 2026 was €2,206/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Virelade grades C+ for cost of living.
Commune in Gironde, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Virelade is a commune of 1,124 people in the Communauté de communes Convergence Garonne. 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.