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MaubourguetHautes-Pyrénées

Over-65s are 36% of the population. 2,242 people call this town in Hautes-Pyrénées, Occitanie home.

Is Maubourguet a good place to live?

Pupils here do better than most (A): brevet results 5 points above the expected rate. Cost of living is a strength too — at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 3.7 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Health lags: after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 3% above expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. Jobs and pay trail most towns: 2 jobs per working resident; 11.9% unemployment.

Figures: brevet and bac results, Ministry of Education · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025) · employment, INSEE census 2023. Maubourguet 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.

How Maubourguet grades

Each subject compares Maubourguet 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.

How grading works

Maubourguet has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents.

How TownRatings grades French towns →

What makes Maubourguet stand out

The 3 things Maubourguet does most differently from other towns.

Picked automatically from the data
Église de l'Assomption
Église de l'Assomption · Classé · Photo: Havang(nl) · CC0
Maubourguet’s story

Maubourguet in pictures

On the Culture ministry’s list, Maubourguet counts 4 historic monuments: 1 classé at the top level of protection and 3 inscrit at the second.

The oldest protected part dates from the 11th century; the first monument here was protected in 1979.

18% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.

Auguste-Charles-François Xavier de Lussy, born in 1784, is the one person born in Maubourguet before 1900 that Wikidata records.

  • 1979First protected: Église de l'Assomption
  • 2023Most recently protected: Villa « Maïtena »
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Landmarks

On the Culture ministry’s list, Maubourguet counts 4 historic monuments: 1 classé at the top level of protection and 3 inscrit at the second.

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Photo credits

Musée archéologique de Maubourguet: Photo: Poudou99 · CC BY 3.0

The data

Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Maubourguet.

Schools

Schools around Maubourguet do better than those of 94% of compared French towns

94.0%passed the brevetASchool Grade

Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.

The closest lycée for the general bac is 5.5 mi off. The town’s pupils have a collège 0.7 mi away.

Brevet pass rate · collèges within 5 km

Maubourguet94.0%
Median of towns87.5%
SchoolLevelCandidatesPassed, 2025
Collège Jean JaurèsNearest collègeCollègeCollège4894%+5 pts
94.0%
passed the brevet at the collèges, +5 pts against the expected rate
0.7 mi
to the nearest collège from the town center

Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte

HousingCost of living A

Renting in Maubourguet costs less than in Hautes-Pyrénées’ towns and across compared French towns, at an estimated advertised €8.76/m² a month

€1,259/m²median sale price

Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.

The middle sale price: €1,259/m², below Hautes-Pyrénées’ towns (€1,744/m²) and compared French towns (€2,430/m²) alike. Between July 2023 and June 2026, buyers took 94 homes in Maubourguet. Houses accounted for 98% of sales, apartments for the rest.

Median sale price per m² · Jul 2023 to Jun 2026

Maubourguet€1,259/m²
Median of towns€2,430/m²
Hautes-Pyrénées median€1,744/m²
By typeMedian per m²Sales
Houses€1,259/m²92
€8.76/m²
estimated advertised apartment rent a month, charges included (€7.08 to €10.84/m² a month)
3.7
times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality, for 70 m² at the median price
€7.75/m²
estimated advertised house rent a month, charges included
€24,070
median annual income per consumption unit, Communauté de communes Adour Madiran

Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte

Who lives here

Maubourguet skews older, with 36% of residents 65 or over, more than in Hautes-Pyrénées’ towns and across compared French towns

55.8median age

Those aged 15 to 24 account for 8% of residents. Children under 15 make up 12%, below both Hautes-Pyrénées’ towns (14%) and compared French towns (17%). Graduates make up 21% of adults.

MaubourguetHautes-Pyrénées medianFrance median

Ages · share of residents

Highest diploma · residents 15 and older who have left education

No diploma21%
CAP or BEP32%
Baccalauréat20%
Higher education21%

Women and men · all residents

52% women, 48% men

About 93 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Hautes-Pyrénées 53.4%, France 51.8%. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.

Ages and diplomas in Maubourguet
MaubourguetHautes-Pyrénées medianFrance median
Under 1512%14%17%
15–248%9.6%11%
25–4417%20%23%
45–6427%26%26%
65+36%29%22%
No diploma21%18%19%
CAP or BEP32%29%26%
Baccalauréat20%19%18%
Higher education21%26%30%

INSEE, census 2023 · Hautes-Pyrénées median and France median: the median of compared communes

HealthHealth C−

Maubourguet is 17.1 mi from the nearest emergency department

+3%deaths against expected, after care homesC−Health Grade

Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.

Adjusted for age and care homes, Maubourguet records 103 deaths per 100 expected, higher than both Hautes-Pyrénées’ towns (87) and compared French towns (88). For a family doctor, residents of Maubourguet can choose among 4 GPs. In Hautes-Pyrénées, life expectancy at birth reaches 85.3 years for women and 80.5 for men (2025), next to 85.9 and 80.3 for France. From 2016 to 2025, 555 residents of Maubourguet died, against 448 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 24% more.

Deaths per 100 expected · 2016–2025

Raw124
Adjusted103
Median town88
Expected100
4
GPs in Maubourguet · 3.9 GP consultations a year per resident within reach (APL)
17.1 mi
to the nearest emergency department, Ch Tarbes Lourdes Gespe site Tarbes
16.3 mi
to the nearest maternity unit, Ch Tarbes Lourdes Gespe site Tarbes
85.3 · 80.5
years of life expectancy at birth, women · men, Hautes-Pyrénées, 2025 (provisional) · France 85.9 · 80.3

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 step is TownRatings’ own calculation, not an official number.

Work & commuteJobs & income C

Incomes in Maubourguet run lower than in Hautes-Pyrénées’ towns and across compared French towns: a median €22,470 a year per consumption unit

12%walk, cycle or take transit

Jobs based in Maubourguet number 1,600, against 800 residents in work (2 per worker). Unemployment runs at 11.9%. Bus, tram or train carried 2.3% of working residents in Maubourguet to work at the census.

How working residents got to work · census 2023

Driving83%
On foot7%
Bicycle3%
Public transport2%
Motorbike or scooter2%
1,600
jobs based in Maubourguet, 2 per working resident
11.9%
unemployment rate, ages 15 to 64 in the labor force · median of compared French towns 10.1%
€22,470
median annual income per consumption unit, 2023 · median of compared French towns €25,970
3%
worked without traveling (at or from home)
B+
Walkability: better than 71% of compared French towns

Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte

History

Old homes shape Maubourguet: 18% were built before 1919, more than in Hautes-Pyrénées’ towns and across compared French towns

4historic monuments

France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.

Among the classé monuments in Maubourguet is Église de l'Assomption. On the Culture ministry’s list, Maubourguet counts 4 historic monuments: 1 classé at the top level of protection and 3 inscrit at the second. Protection here reaches back to the 11th century.

Monuments by protection · Mérimée

Classé1
Inscrit3

Among them · Classé

11th c.
oldest protected part
1979
first monument protected

Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period

Keep exploring

Everything we know about Maubourguet

15pages on Maubourguet
Nearby attractions

Mosaïque au dieu Océan du domaine de Saint-Girons and 2 more in and around Maubourguet

Heritage and museums in and near Maubourguet. Best known first.

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Places: © OpenStreetMap contributors · Wikidata

Famous people from Maubourguet

3 notable people were born in Maubourguet.

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About Maubourguet

Commune in Hautes-Pyrénées, Occitanie

Maubourguet is a commune of 2,242 people in the Communauté de communes Adour Madiran. 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

Population
2,242 (INSEE, census 2023)
Intercommunality
Communauté de communes Adour Madiran
Département
Hautes-Pyrénées (65)
Région
Occitanie
Area
8.6 sq mi (22.3 km²)
INSEE code
65304

Maubourguet’s neighbors

The nearest towns of 2,500 or more. The map uses IGN’s commune boundaries. See them on the map →

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Vic-en-BigorreBordères-sur-l'ÉchezAureilhanIbosTarbesSéméacVic-en-BigorreBordères-sur-l'ÉchezAureilhanIbosTarbesSéméacMaubourguet
How the neighbors grade
TownPeopleMilesOverallCostSafetyHealth
Maubourguet2,242——A—C−
Vic-en-Bigorre4,8455.9A−B+A−C−
Bordères-sur-l'Échez5,39914A−BAB+
Aureilhan8,03116BB+B+B
Ibos2,81316A−B−B−A
Tarbes44,39916C+B+DB−
Séméac5,23617BBBB

People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.

Questions about Maubourguet

Is Maubourguet safe?

Maubourguet has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. Recorded figures: an average of 1.6 recorded violent incidents and 8.4 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.

Are schools in Maubourguet good?

They grade A, better than 94% of compared French towns. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.

Is Maubourguet expensive to live in?

Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns too, so Maubourguet 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 9, 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.