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With 3,000 residents, it is a town in Hérault, Occitanie.
Good on most counts; one lags. Its strongest is schools (A+): brevet results 8 points above the expected rate. Murviel-lès-Béziers’s overall grade, B+, puts it better than 71% of compared French towns. In the ranking it comes #12 of 84 in Hérault. It also does well on safety (B+) — an average of 5.9 recorded violent incidents and 12.2 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. The trade-off is jobs & income — 0.6 jobs per working resident; 10.5% unemployment. At €1,758/m², the median price, 70 m² costs 5.1 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the Communauté de communes Les Avant-Monts. Its remaining grades are unremarkable: C+ for health and B for walkability.
Figures: brevet and bac results, Ministry of Education · recorded crime, SSMSI (Ministry of the Interior) · employment and commuting, INSEE census 2023 · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025) · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas. The overall grade uses the other six subjects.
The 2 things Murviel-lès-Béziers does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Murviel-lès-Béziers 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 TownRatings grades French towns →
Murviel-lès-Béziers has 1 historic monument on the Culture ministry’s list, none at the highest level (classé).
The oldest protected part dates from the 15th century; the first monument here was protected in 2006.
18% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Murviel-lès-Béziers.
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Results rank its schools #2 of 80 in Hérault. 94.0% of candidates passed the brevet at the collèges within 5 km of Murviel-lès-Béziers, above both Hérault’s towns (88.8%) and compared French towns (87.5%). The nearest general lycée is 7.5 mi away.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Le CèdreNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 119 | 94%+8 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
The median disposable income was €23,970 a year per consumption unit, lower than both Hérault’s towns (€25,355) and compared French towns (€25,970). At the census, 4.8% of working residents in Murviel-lès-Béziers didn’t travel to work at all. Of those in the labour force, 10.5% are unemployed.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
Murviel-lès-Béziers has 1 historic monument on the Culture ministry’s list, none at the highest level (classé). The oldest protected building goes back to the 15th century.
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
25% of residents are 65 or over, near Hérault’s towns (24%) and higher than compared French towns (22%). Half the people of Murviel-lès-Béziers are older than 47.7. People aged 15 to 24 are a tenth of the population.
53% women, 47% men
About 90 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Hérault 52.0%, France 51.8%.
| Murviel-lès-Béziers | Hérault median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 17% | 17% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 10% | 9.7% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 19% | 22% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 28% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 25% | 24% | 22% |
| No diploma | 19% | 17% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 28% | 23% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 18% | 19% | 18% |
| Higher education | 26% | 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.
The nearest emergency department to Murviel-lès-Béziers is Polyclinique Saint Privat, 7.5 mi away. Its care home for older people (53 places) counts its residents as Murviel-lès-Béziers’; allowing for it, deaths were 9% below expected. 387 deaths in the town between 2016 and 2025, where France’s rates at each age predict 365: 6% above. Women in Hérault live to 86.3 on average and men to 80.6 (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 · The care-home adjustment is a TownRatings modeling step, not an official statistic.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
140 sales of houses and apartments in Murviel-lès-Béziers, from July 2023 to June 2026, give the median of €1,758/m². Of the homes sold, 95% were houses. House rents are put at about €11.36/m² a month.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €1,774/m² | 133 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Heritage and other places to visit in and near Murviel-lès-Béziers. Best known first.
Murviel-lès-Béziers has one historic monument; beside it, the nearest classé monuments in other towns, within 15.5 mi.
Wikidata places 1 person here, but the articles don’t both confirm Murviel-lès-Béziers as the birthplace, so nobody is listed.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Murviel-lès-Béziers | 3,000 | — | B+ | C+ | B+ | C+ |
| Thézan-lès-Béziers | 3,124 | 2.1 | A− | C+ | A | B |
| Cazouls-lès-Béziers | 5,261 | 3.9 | C+ | B+ | B | C+ |
| Lignan-sur-Orb | 3,227 | 4.3 | — | D | — | B+ |
| Magalas | 3,582 | 4.5 | C | C | B | B− |
| Maraussan | 4,789 | 5.1 | C+ | B− | B+ | C |
| Boujan-sur-Libron | 3,619 | 7.1 | B− | D | A+ | C |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
It grades B+ for safety, #25 of 84 in Hérault.
They grade A+, better than 98% of compared French towns and #2 of 80 in Hérault. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Homes cost less than in most compared French towns: the median sale price from July 2023 to June 2026 was €1,758/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns too, so Murviel-lès-Béziers grades C+ for cost of living.
Commune in Hérault, Occitanie
Murviel-lès-Béziers is a commune of 3,000 people in the Communauté de communes Les Avant-Monts. 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.