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A town of 1,398 in Landes, Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
Heugas has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents. Its weakest subject is walkability (D): 33% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 4% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. At the median price of €2,335/m², a 70 m² home costs 6.5 times the median annual income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size) in the Communauté d'agglomération du Grand Dax. Its strongest is health (A−): after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 24% 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 Heugas 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 lists no building in Heugas as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Ancienne Cathédrale Sainte-Marie (église Notre-Dame), in Dax, 4.9 mi away.
21% 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 Heugas.
The typical income here, after tax and benefits, is €27,420 a year per consumption unit. Jobs based in Heugas number 200, against 600 residents in work (0.3 per worker). At the census, 4.3% of working residents in Heugas didn’t travel to work at all.
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.
From 2016 to 2025, 108 residents of Heugas died, against 142 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 24% fewer. Women in Landes live to 85.5 on average and men to 80.3 (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 across France. The nearest emergency department to Heugas is Centre hospitalier de Dax, 5.1 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 B− to A.
Graduates make up just over a third of adults. People 65 and over make up 27% of the town, about level with Landes’ towns (28%) and above compared French towns (22%). Heugas has a median age of 50.6 years.
49% women, 51% men
About 105 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Landes 51.9%, France 51.8%.
| Heugas | Landes median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 15% | 15% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 7.2% | 8.9% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 21% | 21% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 30% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 27% | 28% | 22% |
| No diploma | 13% | 16% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 30% | 27% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 19% | 20% | 18% |
| Higher education | 34% | 28% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Landes median and France median: the median of compared communes
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
Behind the median of €2,335/m²: 38 houses and apartments sold in Heugas between July 2023 and June 2026. House rents are put at about €10.74/m² a month.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €2,335/m² | 38 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Museums and heritage in and near Heugas. Best known first.
Nothing in Heugas is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
Wikidata places 1 person here, but the articles don’t both confirm Heugas 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heugas | 1,398 | — | — | C+ | — | A− |
| Dax | 22,109 | 4.5 | D | C | D− | D |
| Pouillon | 3,134 | 4.7 | — | C | — | C+ |
| Narrosse | 3,387 | 5.2 | B+ | C | A− | B+ |
| Saint-Paul-lès-Dax | 14,481 | 6.3 | C | C− | C | B |
| Peyrehorade | 3,700 | 6.5 | C | C | B− | C |
| Saint-Geours-de-Maremne | 3,089 | 8 | — | C− | — | B+ |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Heugas has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. Recorded figures: an average of 3.8 recorded violent incidents and 4.5 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Prices are close to the median of compared French towns: the median sale price from July 2023 to June 2026 was €2,335/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Heugas grades C+ for cost of living.
Commune in Landes, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Heugas is a commune of 1,398 people in the Communauté d'agglomération du Grand Dax. 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.