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A town of 1,685 in Hérault, Occitanie.
Valros has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents. Its weakest subject is jobs & income (D): 0.4 jobs per working resident; 11.7% unemployment. At the median price of €2,428/m², a 70 m² home costs 8 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 health (B): after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 16% below expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas.
Each subject compares Valros 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.
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The Culture ministry’s list holds 1 historic monument in Valros; none is classé, France’s top protection.
The oldest protected part dates from the 14th century; the first monument here was protected in 1988.
13% 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 Valros.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
The median price, €2,428/m², comes from 61 sales of houses and apartments in Valros from July 2023 to June 2026. Houses accounted for 92% of sales, apartments for the rest. Renting a house costs an estimated €9.78/m² a month.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €2,479/m² | 56 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Half of residents lived on more than €24,680 a year per consumption unit, near Hérault’s towns (€25,355) and lower than compared French towns (€25,970). The unemployment rate comes to 11.7%. At the census, 4.2% of working residents in Valros didn’t travel to work at all.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); 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 3.6 mi away. The closest collège is 2.9 mi off.
| 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
The 15-to-24 age group makes up 8.3% of residents. Children under 15 make up 16%, lower than both Hérault’s towns (17%) and compared French towns (17%). Residents of Valros have a median age of 47.9.
52% women, 48% men
About 94 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Hérault 52.0%, France 51.8%.
| Valros | Hérault median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 16% | 17% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 8.3% | 9.7% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 22% | 22% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 26% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 27% | 24% | 22% |
| No diploma | 18% | 17% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 27% | 23% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 21% | 19% | 18% |
| Higher education | 28% | 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.
France’s death rates at each age would predict 221 deaths in Valros from 2016 to 2025; there were 185, 16% fewer. 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. The nearest emergency department to Valros is Polyclinique Pasteur, 3.8 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 · TownRatings makes the care-home adjustment itself; it is a model, not an official statistic. A less sure grade: it could be anywhere from C+ to A−.
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
Its oldest listed monument dates from the 14th century. Homes from before 1919 make up 13% of the total, higher than both Hérault’s towns (8.8%) and compared French towns (7.4%).
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
Violence against people averaged 4.2 per 1,000 residents a year over 2023–2025; graded property crimes averaged 11.6. Valros’s tally for 2025: 19 recorded offenses. More of the graded crimes in the town were burglary than anything else (2025).
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 · For family violence, other physical violence, sexual violence, vehicle theft and theft from vehicles, the count isn’t published when it’s small (five or fewer in a year of the last three), so the index uses the département’s average, 48.7% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Heritage, gardens and other places to visit in and near Valros. Best known first.
GardenJardin de Saint-Adrien4.1 km southwest, in ServianAbbeyAbbeyAbbaye de Saint-Thibéry4.9 km southeast, in Saint-ThibéryAttractionAttractionPont Vieux4.8 km southeast, in Saint-ThibéryChâteauChâteauChâteau de Conas4.9 km northeast, in PézenasChâteauChâteauChâteau de Saint-Pierre1.8 km south, in MontblancPhotos from Wikimedia Commons, each under its own licence (our copy, resized).
Valros has one historic monument; beside it, the nearest classé monuments in other towns, within 15.5 mi.
église Saint-Étienne: Photo: Fagairolles 34 · CC BY-SA 4.0
Wikidata has nobody with a French article born in Valros yet.
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more. The map uses IGN’s commune boundaries. See them on the map →
Valros has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 13 burglaries and 6 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.
Prices are close to the median of compared French towns: the median sale price from July 2023 to June 2026 was €2,428/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns, so Valros grades D for cost of living.
Commune in Hérault, Occitanie
Valros is a commune of 1,685 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.