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A town of 2,383 in Hérault, Occitanie.
Getting around on foot or by bus is easy: just over nine in ten residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 5% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. Incomes are on the low side (D): 0.2 jobs per working resident; 11.3% unemployment. It also trails on cost of living — at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 7.9 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. School results trail most towns: brevet results 4 points below the expected rate.
Bassan 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 Bassan does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Bassan 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.
Bassan 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 Bassan as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Église Notre-Dame-des-Pins, in Espondeilhan, 1.9 mi away.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Bassan.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
Homes sold for a median €2,373/m², below Hérault’s towns (€3,252/m²) and close to compared French towns (€2,430/m²). Among the homes sold, 93% were houses. Sales in Bassan from July 2023 to June 2026: 117 houses and apartments.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €2,417/m² | 109 |
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.
For the general bac, the closest lycée is 4.7 mi away. The nearest collège is 2.9 mi away. At the collèges within 5 km of Bassan, 89.0% passed the brevet, close to both Hérault’s towns (88.8%) and compared French towns (87.5%).
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Alfred CrouzetNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 132 | 89%−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 Hérault, life expectancy at birth reaches 86.3 years for women and 80.6 for men (2025), next to 85.9 and 80.3 for France. France’s death rates at each age would predict 218 deaths in Bassan from 2016 to 2025; there were 204, 6% fewer. The nearest emergency department to Bassan is Polyclinique Saint Privat, 2.9 mi away.
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 adjustment for care homes is TownRatings’ own modeling, not an official figure. A less sure grade: it could be anywhere from C− to B.
People 65 and over make up 26% of the town, above both Hérault’s towns (24%) and compared French towns (22%). Children under 15 count for 18% of the people here. Bassan has a median age of 45 years.
52% women, 48% men
About 91 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Hérault 52.0%, France 51.8%.
| Bassan | Hérault median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 18% | 17% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 8.2% | 9.7% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 24% | 22% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 24% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 26% | 24% | 22% |
| No diploma | 16% | 17% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 29% | 23% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 19% | 19% | 18% |
| Higher education | 29% | 31% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Hérault median and France median: the median of compared communes
2.5% of Bassan’s working residents had no journey to work at the census. Unemployment stood at 11.3%, near Hérault’s towns (11.8%) and higher than compared French towns (10.1%).
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
The yearly rates for 2023–2025: 2.7 violent offenses and 7.9 graded property crimes per 1,000 residents. All told, Bassan had 22 recorded offenses in 2025. In 2025, criminal damage led the graded crimes in the town.
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 (48.6% of the index here). The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Heritage, museums and other places to visit in and near Bassan. Best known first.
Nothing in Bassan is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
One notable person was born in Bassan.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bassan | 2,383 | — | — | C− | — | C |
| Boujan-sur-Libron | 3,619 | 2.7 | B− | D | A+ | C |
| Servian | 5,517 | 2.9 | D | C− | C+ | C− |
| Thézan-lès-Béziers | 3,124 | 4.3 | A− | C+ | A | B |
| Lignan-sur-Orb | 3,227 | 4.5 | — | D | — | B+ |
| Magalas | 3,582 | 4.5 | C | C | B | B− |
| Béziers | 81,545 | 4.5 | D | C | D | C− |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Bassan 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 13 acts of criminal damage.
They grade C, better than 33% 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, so Bassan grades C− for cost of living.
Commune in Hérault, Occitanie
Bassan is a commune of 2,383 people in the Communauté d'agglomération de Béziers-Méditerranée. 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.