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Some 2,643 people live in this town, in Haute-Garonne, Occitanie.
Daux’s best grade is for jobs & income: 0.2 jobs per working resident; 6.0% unemployment. Few people walk, cycle or take the bus to work: just over a fifth of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 5% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. Pupils here do less well than most: brevet results 4 points below the expected rate. At €2,590/m², the median price, 70 m² costs 6.4 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the Communauté de communes des Hauts-Tolosans.
Figures: employment and commuting, INSEE census 2023 · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · brevet and bac results, Ministry of Education · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi. Daux has no overall grade because safety isn’t graded here.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas.
Each subject compares Daux 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.
Daux has no overall grade because safety isn’t graded here.
How TownRatings grades French towns →
The 3 things Daux does most differently from other towns.
The Culture ministry lists 1 historic monument in Daux, none of them classé, France’s highest protection.
The oldest protected part dates from the 14th century; the first monument here was protected in 1926.
Explore the history →Daux has one historic monument; beside it, the nearest classé monuments in other towns, within 15.5 mi.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Daux.
People aged 15 to 24 make up nearly a tenth of the town, below Haute-Garonne’s towns (10%) and compared French towns (11%) alike. The under-15s are 22% of the population here. The 65-and-over age group makes up 13% of residents.
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Haute-Garonne 51.3%, France 51.8%.
| Daux | Haute-Garonne median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 22% | 19% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 8.4% | 10% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 31% | 25% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 25% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 13% | 18% | 22% |
| No diploma | 7.8% | 13% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 21% | 22% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 19% | 19% | 18% |
| Higher education | 49% | 40% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Haute-Garonne median and France median: the median of compared communes
At the census, 5.3% of commuters walked, cycled or took the bus or train. Unemployment stood at 6.0%, below Haute-Garonne’s towns (8.8%) and compared French towns (10.1%) alike.
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 nearest collège is 2.6 mi away. For the general bac, the closest lycée is 5 mi away. Schools rank #57 of 91 in Haute-Garonne.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Germaine TillionNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 178 | 90%−4 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
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. From 2016 to 2025, 115 residents of Daux died, against 126 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 8% fewer. There are 5 general practitioners here.
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 D to B+.
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
The earliest of these monuments dates from the 14th century. 7.6% of its homes were built before 1919, above Haute-Garonne’s towns (3.5%) and close to compared French towns (7.4%).
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.
The median price, €2,590/m², comes from 77 sales of houses and apartments in Daux from July 2023 to June 2026. From July 2023 to June 2026, 77 homes were sold locally. Among the homes sold, 75% were houses.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €2,718/m² | 58 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Burglary topped the graded crimes in Daux (2025). The 2025 count: 23 offenses locally. Violence against people ran at 2 per 1,000 residents a year and the graded property crimes at 7.3 (2023–2025 average).
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 · When family violence, other physical violence, sexual violence, vehicle theft and theft from vehicles number five or fewer in a recent year, the figure is withheld, and the index uses the département’s average instead (37.2% of the index here). The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Other places to visit, gardens and heritage in and near Daux. Best known first.
AttractionChâteau de Merville4.5 km northeast, in MervilleGardenGardenLabyrinthe de Merville4.7 km northeast, in MervilleChâteauChâteauChâteau d'Alliez4.4 km southeast, in CornebarrieuPhotos from Wikimedia Commons, each under its own licence (our copy, resized).
Wikidata has nobody with a French article born in Daux yet.
Commune in Haute-Garonne, Occitanie
Daux is a commune of 2,643 people in the Communauté de communes des Hauts-Tolosans. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Daux | 2,643 | — | — | B | — | C+ |
| Mondonville | 6,060 | 1.4 | D | C | C | C− |
| Aussonne | 7,997 | 2.7 | B | C− | B− | A− |
| Merville | 6,760 | 2.8 | B− | B− | A+ | D |
| Cornebarrieu | 8,978 | 3.4 | C+ | C− | C− | B+ |
| Seilh | 3,356 | 4.5 | B+ | C− | B− | A+ |
| Pibrac | 8,977 | 4.7 | B | C− | B− | A− |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Daux has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 15 burglaries and 8 acts of criminal damage.
They grade C+, better than 38% of compared French towns and #57 of 91 in Haute-Garonne. 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 €2,590/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Daux grades B 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.