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It skews older: 28% of residents are 65 or over. This town in Hautes-Pyrénées, Occitanie has a population of 1,362.
Tournay’s best grade is for cost of living — at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 4.1 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. School results are strong: brevet results a point above the expected rate. Elsewhere it is close to typical: C+ for health, B− for jobs & income and B for walkability. The median price paid is €1,521/m².
Figures: prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · brevet and bac results, Ministry of Education · deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025) · employment and commuting, INSEE census 2023 · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025. Tournay 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 2 things Tournay does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Tournay 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.
Tournay 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 Tournay as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Abbaye de l'Escaladieu, in Bonnemazon, 5.3 mi away.
12% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Tournay.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
Among the homes sold, 95% were houses. Renting a house costs an estimated €8.90/m² a month. Sales in Tournay from July 2023 to June 2026: 39 houses and apartments.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €1,370/m² | 37 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
General-bac pupils go 8.3 mi to the nearest lycée.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège du Val d'ArrosNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 57 | 93%+1 pt |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
The share of residents under 15 is 13%. People 65 and over make up 28% of the town, close to Hautes-Pyrénées’ towns (29%) and above compared French towns (22%). Line up the people of Tournay by age and the one in the middle is 49.2.
52% women, 48% men
About 92 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.
| Tournay | Hautes-Pyrénées median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 13% | 14% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 8.4% | 9.6% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 22% | 20% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 28% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 28% | 29% | 22% |
| No diploma | 15% | 18% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 30% | 29% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 18% | 19% | 18% |
| Higher education | 30% | 26% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Hautes-Pyrénées median and France median: the median of compared communes
Nearly one in ten commuters walked, cycled or took the bus or train at the census, lower than both Hautes-Pyrénées’ towns (10.9%) and compared French towns (13.4%). At the census, 4.3% of working residents in Tournay didn’t travel to work at all. Per consumption unit, the median disposable income is €25,260 a year.
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.
125 deaths in Tournay between 2016 and 2025, where France’s rates at each age predict 139: 10% below. The nearest emergency department to Tournay is Centre hospitalier de Bagneres de Bigorre, 9.6 mi away. There are 4 general practitioners locally. Women in Hautes-Pyrénées live to 85.3 on average and men to 80.5 (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 · Note: TownRatings models the care-home adjustment; it is not an official figure. A less sure grade: it could be anywhere from C− to A−.
Nothing in Tournay is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
3 notable people were born in Tournay.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tournay | 1,362 | — | — | A | — | C+ |
| Barbazan-Debat | 3,478 | 6.3 | A+ | A− | A+ | A+ |
| Soues | 2,988 | 7.3 | A− | B+ | A+ | B+ |
| Séméac | 5,236 | 7.6 | B | B | B | B |
| Aureilhan | 8,031 | 8.5 | B | B+ | B+ | B |
| Lannemezan | 5,811 | 8.6 | C− | A | D | C− |
| Tarbes | 44,399 | 9.4 | C+ | B+ | D | B− |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Tournay has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. Recorded figures: an average of 2.7 recorded violent incidents and 11.9 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. With 650 jobs for 550 working residents, Tournay draws people from neighboring communes, and crimes are counted in the commune where they happen, then divided by its number of residents.
They grade A−, better than 81% of compared French towns. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns too, so Tournay grades A for cost of living.
Commune in Hautes-Pyrénées, Occitanie
Tournay is a commune of 1,362 people in the Communauté de communes des Coteaux du Val d'Arros. 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 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.