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With 1,167 residents, it is a town in Landes, Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
Schools do well: brevet results 2 points above the expected rate. Homes sell for a median €1,688/m²: 70 m² comes to 5 years of the median income per consumption unit in the Communauté de communes des Landes d'Armagnac. Its weakest is walkability — just over a fifth of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 5% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. It has 750 jobs for 500 working residents.
Figures: brevet and bac results, Ministry of Education · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · commuting, INSEE census 2023 · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi. Sarbazan has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas.
The 2 things Sarbazan does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Sarbazan 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.
Sarbazan has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents.
How TownRatings grades French towns →
Sarbazan has 2 historic monuments on the Culture ministry’s list: 1 classé, the highest protection, and 1 inscrit, the second level.
The oldest protected part dates from prehistory; the first monument here was protected in 1997.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Sarbazan.
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
The nearest collège is 0.7 mi away. For the general bac, the closest lycée is 12.5 mi away.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège George SandNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 54 | 96%+2 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
From 2016 to 2025, 89 residents of Sarbazan died, against 123 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 27% fewer. The nearest emergency department to Sarbazan is Chi de Mont de Marsan et du Pays des Sources, 12.1 mi away. There are 2 general practitioners locally. Also worth knowing: in Landes, women can expect to live 85.5 years and men 80.3 (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. A less sure grade: it could be anywhere from B to A+.
4.8% of commuters walked, cycled or took the bus or train at the census, lower than both Landes’ towns (9.7%) and compared French towns (13.4%). Of those in the labour force, 9.5% are unemployed. The typical income here, after tax and benefits, is €25,300 a year per consumption unit.
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.
Its oldest listed monument dates from prehistory. Among the classé monuments in Sarbazan is Église Saint-Pierre. The town has 2 historic monuments on the Culture ministry’s list: 1 classé, the highest protection, and 1 inscrit, the second level.
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
People 65 and over make up a quarter of the town, below Landes’ towns (28%) but above compared French towns (22%). Children under 15 make up 16% of residents. The median resident of Sarbazan is 49 years old.
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Landes 51.9%, France 51.8%.
| Sarbazan | Landes median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 16% | 15% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 8.4% | 8.9% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 19% | 21% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 32% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 25% | 28% | 22% |
| No diploma | 18% | 16% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 32% | 27% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 21% | 20% | 18% |
| Higher education | 24% | 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.
37 sales of houses and apartments in Sarbazan, from July 2023 to June 2026, give the median of €1,688/m². House rents are put at about €9.85/m² a month.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €1,688/m² | 37 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Sarbazan has 2 historic monuments on the Culture ministry’s list: 1 classé, the highest protection, and 1 inscrit, the second level.
Église Saint-Pierre: Photo: Les Meloures · CC BY-SA 3.0
Wikidata has nobody with a French article born in Sarbazan 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sarbazan | 1,167 | — | — | B− | — | A |
| Villeneuve-de-Marsan | 2,508 | 9.1 | — | B− | — | B |
| Mont-de-Marsan | 31,592 | 12 | C+ | B− | D | B− |
| Saint-Pierre-du-Mont | 10,092 | 14 | B+ | C+ | B | B+ |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Sarbazan has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. Recorded figures: an average of 3.7 recorded violent incidents and 5.4 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
They grade A, better than 90% of compared French towns. 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 €1,688/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns too, so Sarbazan grades B− for cost of living.
Commune in Landes, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Sarbazan is a commune of 1,167 people in the Communauté de communes des Landes d'Armagnac. 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.