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A town of 3,134 in Landes, Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
Pouillon has no overall grade because safety isn’t graded here. Its weakest subject is walkability (D): 35% 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 €2,202/m², a 70 m² home costs 6.1 times the median annual income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size) in the Communauté de communes Pays d'Orthe et Arrigans. Its strongest is schools (A−): brevet results a point above the expected rate.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas.
The one thing Pouillon does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Pouillon 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.
Pouillon has no overall grade because safety isn’t graded here.
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Pouillon has 1 historic monument on the Culture ministry’s list, none at the highest level (classé).
The oldest protected part dates from the 12th century; the first monument here was protected in 1996.
20% 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 Pouillon.
For its 1,200 residents in work, Pouillon has 800 jobs: 0.7 each. 3.5% of commuters walked, cycled or took the bus or train at the census, below both Landes’ towns (9.7%) and compared French towns (13.4%). At the census, 5.4% of working residents in Pouillon 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 exam results, it comes #14 of 31 in Landes. The closest lycée for the general bac is 6 mi off.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Rosa ParksNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 100 | 92%+1 pt |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
People aged 15 to 24 make up nearly a tenth of the town, about level with Landes’ towns (8.9%) and below compared French towns (11%). Children under 15 make up 14% of residents. 27% of adults hold a degree.
53% women, 47% men
About 90 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Landes 51.9%, France 51.8%. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
| Pouillon | Landes median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 14% | 15% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 8.6% | 8.9% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 18% | 21% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 30% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 29% | 28% | 22% |
| No diploma | 18% | 16% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 30% | 27% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 19% | 20% | 18% |
| Higher education | 27% | 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.
91 sales of houses and apartments in Pouillon, from July 2023 to June 2026, give the median of €2,202/m². Among the homes sold, 97% were houses. Houses are advertised at an estimated €11.59/m² a month.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €2,207/m² | 88 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
Protection here reaches back to the 12th century. Pouillon has 1 historic monument on the Culture ministry’s list, none at the highest level (classé).
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
Its care home for older people (82 places) counts its residents as Pouillon’s; allowing for it, deaths were 9% below expected. France’s death rates at each age would predict 440 deaths locally from 2016 to 2025; there were 476, 8% more. The nearest emergency department to Pouillon is Centre hospitalier de Dax, 7.4 mi away. This Landes town has 4 family doctors.
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 · Note: TownRatings models the care-home adjustment; it is not an official figure.
26 offenses were reported in Pouillon during 2025. Each year (2023–2025 average), violence against people came to 2.9 per 1,000 residents and the graded property crimes to 3. Of the graded crimes here, family violence came up most often (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 · When 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 (52.9% of the index here). The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Pouillon has one historic monument; beside it, the nearest classé monuments in other towns, within 15.5 mi.
Église Saint-Martin: Photo: Ghislain118 · CC BY-SA 3.0
One notable person was born in Pouillon.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pouillon | 3,134 | — | — | C | — | C+ |
| Narrosse | 3,387 | 6.3 | B+ | C | A− | B+ |
| Peyrehorade | 3,700 | 6.6 | C | C | B− | C |
| Dax | 22,109 | 7.2 | D | C | D− | D |
| Saint-Paul-lès-Dax | 14,481 | 9.1 | C | C− | C | B |
| Salies-de-Béarn Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 4,742 | 10 | A− | B− | A | C− |
| Saint-Vincent-de-Paul | 3,402 | 10 | B+ | C | A | B− |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Pouillon has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 7 burglaries and 6 acts of criminal damage.
They grade A−, better than 78% of compared French towns and #14 of 31 in Landes. 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 €2,202/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Estimated advertised apartment rents are €12.45/m² a month, charges included. Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns, so Pouillon grades C for cost of living.
Commune in Landes, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Pouillon is a commune of 3,134 people in the Communauté de communes Pays d'Orthe et Arrigans. 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.