Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Some 4,854 people live in this town, in Haute-Garonne, Occitanie.
What it saves you on housing, it gives back elsewhere. Cazères’s overall grade of C− puts it better than 21% of compared French towns, #81 of 85 in Haute-Garonne. Police record more crime here than in most towns (D): an average of 18.3 recorded violent incidents and 16.4 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Housing is within reach (A−): at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 4.6 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Getting around on foot or by bus is easy (B+): 78% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 13% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work.
Figures: prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · commuting and employment, INSEE census 2023 · recorded crime, SSMSI (Ministry of the Interior).
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 Cazères 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 2 things Cazères does most differently from other towns.
The Culture ministry’s list holds 2 historic monuments in Cazères; none is classé, France’s top protection.
The oldest protected part dates from the 14th century; the first monument here was protected in 1926.
12% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
The list names few of Cazères’ 2 monuments; beside them, the nearest classé monuments in other towns, within 15.5 mi.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Cazères.
Police and gendarmerie figures for Cazères show 165 offenses in 2025. Criminal damage topped the graded crimes in Cazères (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 burglary, 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, 1.7% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
The middle sale price: €1,704/m², below Haute-Garonne’s towns (€2,675/m²) and compared French towns (€2,430/m²) alike. The split in Cazères: €1,776/m² for houses, €1,650/m² for apartments. 220 houses and apartments changed hands locally from July 2023 to June 2026.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €1,776/m² | 154 |
| Apartments | €1,650/m² | 66 |
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.
Its care home for older people (102 places) counts its residents as Cazères’; allowing for it, deaths were 1% below expected. France’s death rates at each age would predict 588 deaths here from 2016 to 2025; there were 682, 16% more. Also worth knowing: the nearest emergency department to Cazères is Centre hospitalier Ariege Couserans site Saint Lizier, 14.8 mi away. In Haute-Garonne, life expectancy at birth reaches 86.4 years for women and 82.1 for men (2025), next to 85.9 and 80.3 for 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.
Households’ median disposable income: €22,460 a year per consumption unit. At the census, 5.5% of working residents in Cazères went to work by public transport.
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.
At the lycées within 5 km of Cazères, 98.0% passed the bac, above both Haute-Garonne’s towns (96.0%) and compared French towns (92.9%). By results, schools here place #63 of 91 in Haute-Garonne.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège du PlantaurelNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 119 | 83%−9 pts |
| Lycée polyvalent Martin MalvyNearest lycéeGeneral lycée | General lycée | 205 | 98%±0 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
The protected list starts in the 14th century. The Culture ministry’s list holds 2 historic monuments in Cazères; none is classé, France’s top protection.
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
24% of residents are 65 or over, higher than both Haute-Garonne’s towns (18%) and compared French towns (22%). Children are 19% of the town. Cazères has a median age of 44.6 years.
51% women, 49% men
About 95 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Haute-Garonne 51.3%, France 51.8%.
| Cazères | Haute-Garonne median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 19% | 19% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 11% | 10% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 21% | 25% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 25% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 24% | 18% | 22% |
| No diploma | 23% | 13% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 28% | 22% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 20% | 19% | 18% |
| Higher education | 23% | 40% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Haute-Garonne median and France median: the median of compared communes
Heritage, museums and other places to visit in and near Cazères. Best known first.
5 notable people were born in Cazères.
Pierre Pagès: LightPrimeape, CC BY-SA 4.0
Commune in Haute-Garonne, Occitanie
Cazères is a commune of 4,854 people in the Communauté de communes Cœur de 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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cazères | 4,854 | — | C− | A− | D | C− |
| Rieux-Volvestre | 2,639 | 6.2 | A | A− | A | C− |
| Montesquieu-Volvestre | 3,050 | 6.9 | B | A | A− | B− |
| Carbonne | 5,563 | 9.2 | C | B | C | B− |
| Bérat | 3,087 | 12 | B | B | A | C+ |
| Longages | 3,392 | 12 | B+ | B | A+ | B |
| Noé | 3,067 | 14 | A− | B− | A | A− |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
It grades D for safety, #77 of 85 in Haute-Garonne.
They grade C+, better than 36% of compared French towns and #63 of 91 in Haute-Garonne. 98% of 205 candidates passed the bac at Lycée polyvalent Martin Malvy in 2025, at the expected rate given its pupils’ backgrounds. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns too, so Cazères grades A− for cost of living.
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.