Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
A town of 2,503 in Hérault, Occitanie.
Cers has no overall grade because safety isn’t graded here. Its weakest subject is jobs & income (D−): 0.4 jobs per working resident; 14.6% unemployment. At the median price of €2,508/m², a 70 m² home costs 8.3 times the median annual income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size) in the Communauté d'agglomération de Béziers-Méditerranée. Its strongest is walkability (B+): 98% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 7% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas.
The 2 things Cers does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Cers 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.
Cers has no overall grade because safety isn’t graded here.
How TownRatings grades French towns →
The Culture ministry lists no building in Cers as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Église Saint-Félix, in Portiragnes, 1.9 mi away.
4.4% 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 Cers.
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
On this, Cers is below both Hérault’s towns (88.8%) and compared French towns (87.5%).
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Katia et Maurice KrafftNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 134 | 77%−3 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
The median price, €2,508/m², comes from 67 sales of houses and apartments in Cers from July 2023 to June 2026.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €2,520/m² | 60 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
In the comparison, Cers comes above both Hérault’s towns (11.8%) and compared French towns (10.1%). The median disposable income is €24,050 a year per consumption unit.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
For Cers, that is below both Hérault’s towns (31%) and compared French towns (30%). Over-65s are 28% of the population.
52% women, 48% men
About 93 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Hérault 52.0%, France 51.8%. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
| Cers | Hérault median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 16% | 17% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 9.2% | 9.7% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 21% | 22% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 25% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 28% | 24% | 22% |
| No diploma | 24% | 17% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 31% | 23% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 19% | 19% | 18% |
| Higher education | 20% | 31% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Hérault median and France median: the median of compared communes
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
From 2016 to 2025, 339 residents of Cers died, against 322 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 5% more. Its care home for older people (50 places) counts its residents as Cers’; allowing for it, deaths were 10% below expected. The adjustment lowers most towns’ figures, so the comparison is what counts: the median of compared French towns is 12% below expected. The care-home adjustment is a TownRatings modeling step, not an official statistic.
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
Police and gendarmerie recorded 24 offenses in the graded categories in Cers in 2025. For family violence, other physical violence, sexual violence, vehicle theft and theft from vehicles, 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, 29.2% of the index here.
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
Museums and heritage in and near Cers. Best known first.
Art galleryMusée régional d'art contemporain Occitanie5 km southwest, in SérignanChâteauChâteauChâteau Saint-Bauzille4 km north, in BéziersChâteauChâteauChâteau de Sauvian4.6 km southwest, in SauvianMuseumMuseumMusée Archéologique3.2 km southeast, in PortiragnesPhotos from Wikimedia Commons, each under its own licence (our copy, resized).
Nothing in Cers is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
Wikidata has nobody with a French article born in Cers yet.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cers | 2,503 | — | — | D | — | C+ |
| Villeneuve-lès-Béziers | 4,500 | 1.4 | D | C− | C | C− |
| Portiragnes | 3,530 | 2.3 | D | D | B− | C |
| Sauvian | 5,608 | 3.5 | C− | D | A− | C |
| Sérignan | 8,588 | 4 | D− | D | D | C+ |
| Béziers | 81,545 | 4.3 | D | C | D | C− |
| Boujan-sur-Libron | 3,619 | 4.5 | B− | D | A+ | C |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Cers has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. Recorded figures: an average of 3.3 recorded violent incidents and 11 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 8 burglaries and 16 acts of criminal damage.
They grade D, better than 9% of compared French towns and #74 of 80 in Hérault. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns, so Cers grades D for cost of living.
Commune in Hérault, Occitanie
Cers is a commune of 2,503 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.