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A town in Lot, Occitanie, home to 1,957 people.
Biars-sur-Cère is a safe place by the numbers: an average of 5.8 recorded violent incidents and 8.3 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Health is a strength: after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 23% below expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. Buying 70 m² at the median €1,538/m² takes 4.4 years of the median income per consumption unit in the Communauté de communes Causses et Vallée de la Dordogne. It has 3,000 jobs for 800 working residents.
Figures: recorded crime, SSMSI (Ministry of the Interior) · deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025) · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi. Biars-sur-Cère 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 Biars-sur-Cère does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Biars-sur-Cère 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.
Biars-sur-Cère has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents.
How TownRatings grades French towns →
The Culture ministry lists no building in Biars-sur-Cère as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Église du château de Castelnau-de-Bretenoux, in Prudhomat, 2.3 mi away.
3.9% 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 Biars-sur-Cère.
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
In Lot, life expectancy at birth reaches 85.1 years for women and 80.5 for men (2025), next to 85.9 and 80.3 for France. France’s death rates at each age would predict 256 deaths in Biars-sur-Cère from 2016 to 2025; there were 224, 13% fewer. 3 GPs practise here.
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 figures behind this are our own model (TownRatings), not official statistics.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
A house rents for an estimated €7.72/m² a month. The estimated advertised rent is €10.48/m² a month, about level with Lot’s towns (€10.36/m²) and below compared French towns (€12.41/m²). Among the homes sold, 99% were houses.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €1,540/m² | 68 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Collège pupils travel 0.9 mi to the nearest one. The nearest general lycée is 5.2 mi away.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège d'OrlindeNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 66 | 92%−1 pt |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
The median disposable income was €23,330 a year per consumption unit, near Lot’s towns (€24,345) and lower than compared French towns (€25,970). Unemployment runs at 11.0%. At the census, 2.9% of working residents in Biars-sur-Cère didn’t travel to work at all.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
16% are under 15, above Lot’s towns (11%) and close to compared French towns (17%). People aged 15 to 24 make up 8.2% of the town. Retirement age and beyond: just over a quarter of residents are 65 or older.
51% women, 49% men
About 96 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Lot 53.3%, France 51.8%.
| Biars-sur-Cère | Lot median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 16% | 11% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 8.2% | 8.8% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 21% | 19% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 28% | 25% | 26% |
| 65+ | 26% | 35% | 22% |
| No diploma | 27% | 21% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 33% | 24% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 17% | 19% | 18% |
| Higher education | 17% | 26% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Lot median and France median: the median of compared communes
Heritage and museums in and near Biars-sur-Cère. Best known first.
Nothing in Biars-sur-Cère is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
Wikidata has nobody with a French article born in Biars-sur-Cère 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Biars-sur-Cère | 1,957 | — | — | B+ | A | A− |
| Saint-Céré | 3,429 | 5.2 | A− | B+ | A− | B |
| Gramat | 3,512 | 12 | B− | B+ | B+ | B− |
| Argentat-sur-Dordogne Corrèze | 2,881 | 13 | A+ | A | A | C |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
They grade B+, better than 68% of compared French towns. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns too, so Biars-sur-Cère grades B+ for cost of living.
Commune in Lot, Occitanie
Biars-sur-Cère is a commune of 1,957 people in the Communauté de communes Causses et Vallée de la Dordogne. 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.