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93 residents make their home in this town in Lot, Occitanie.

Is Bouziès a good place to live?

Bouziès is too small to grade: French towns get subject grades from 1,000 residents. 51% of its homes are second homes. People aged 65 and over make up just over a third of residents.

What makes Bouziès stand out

The 2 things Bouziès does most differently from other towns.

Picked automatically from the data
Château de Condat
Château de Condat · Inscrit · Photo: Benjamin Smith · CC BY-SA 4.0
Bouziès’ story

Bouziès in pictures

The Culture ministry lists 3 historic monuments in Bouziès: 2 classé (France’s highest heritage protection) and 1 inscrit (the second level).

The oldest protected part dates from prehistory; the first monument here was protected in 1980.

47% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.

  • 1980First protected: Grotte préhistorique ornée dite Grotte-Christian
  • 1993Most recently protected: Grotte Carriot
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Nearby attractions

Château de Condat and 16 more in and around Bouziès

Museums, heritage and other places to visit in and near Bouziès. Best known first.

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Places: © OpenStreetMap contributors · Wikidata

The data

Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Bouziès.

Who lives here

Bouziès has fewer young adults than Lot’s towns or compared French towns: 6.7% are 15 to 24

35% of residents have reached 65. Children under 15 make up 11%, about level with Lot’s towns (11%) and below compared French towns (17%). Among adults, 38% have a degree.

52.5median age
BouzièsLot medianFrance median

Ages · share of residents

Highest diploma · residents 15 and older who have left education

No diploma9%
CAP or BEP24%
Baccalauréat20%
Higher education38%

Women and men · all residents

53% women, 47% men

About 89 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Lot 53.3%, France 51.8%. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.

Ages and diplomas in Bouziès
BouzièsLot medianFrance median
Under 1511%11%17%
15–246.7%8.8%11%
25–4417%19%23%
45–6430%25%26%
65+35%35%22%
No diploma9.2%21%19%
CAP or BEP24%24%26%
Baccalauréat20%19%18%
Higher education38%26%30%

INSEE, census 2023 · Lot median and France median: the median of compared communes

History

Bouziès keeps more of its old housing than Lot’s towns or compared French towns: 47% built before 1919

France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.

The protected list starts in prehistory. Among the classé monuments in Bouziès is Grotte Carriot. 3 of the 3 are houses and mansions. The Culture ministry lists 3 historic monuments locally: 2 classé (France’s highest heritage protection) and 1 inscrit (the second level).

3historic monuments

Monuments by protection · Mérimée

Classé2
Inscrit1

Among them · Classé

Prehistory
oldest protected part
1980
first monument protected

Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period

Work & commute

Fewer commuters in Bouziès walk, cycle or take the bus or train than in Lot’s towns or compared French towns: 5.4%

Unemployment stood at 10.0%, lower than Lot’s towns (12.8%) and near compared French towns (10.1%). No commute at all: 10.8% of working residents in Bouziès at the census.

5%walk, cycle or take transit

How working residents got to work · census 2023

Driving81%
On foot5%
Motorbike or scooter3%
Public transport0%
Bicycle0%
0
jobs based in Bouziès, 0.5 per working resident
10.0%
unemployment rate, ages 15 to 64 in the labor force · median of compared French towns 10.1%
11%
worked without traveling (at or from home)

Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte

Housing

Estimated advertised rents run lower in Bouziès than in Lot’s towns or across compared French towns: €8.77/m² a month

Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.

House rents are put at about €9.63/m² a month. Bouziès recorded 2 home sales from July 2023 to June 2026.

€8.77/m²estimated apartment rent a month

Estimated advertised apartment rent per m² a month

Bouziès€8.77/m²
Median of towns€12.41/m²
Lot median€10.36/m²
€8.77/m²
estimated advertised apartment rent a month, charges included (€6.66 to €11.53/m² a month)
€9.63/m²
estimated advertised house rent a month, charges included

Source: Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte

Keep exploring

Everything we know about Bouziès

12pages on Bouziès

Landmarks

The Culture ministry lists 3 historic monuments in Bouziès: 2 classé (France’s highest heritage protection) and 1 inscrit (the second level).

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Famous people from Bouziès

Wikidata has nobody with a French article born in Bouziès yet.

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Bouziès’ neighbors

The nearest towns of 2,500 or more. The map uses IGN’s commune boundaries. See them on the map →

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CahorsPradinesCahorsPradinesBouziès
How the neighbors grade
TownPeopleMilesOverallCostSafetyHealth
Bouziès93—————
Cahors20,05010C+BC−B−
Pradines3,61712B+B−A+C+

People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.

About Bouziès

Commune in Lot, Occitanie

Bouziès is a commune of 93 people in the Communauté d'agglomération du Grand Cahors. 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

Population
93 (INSEE, census 2023)
Intercommunality
Communauté d'agglomération du Grand Cahors
Département
Lot (46)
Région
Occitanie
Area
3.2 sq mi (8.2 km²)
INSEE code
46037

Sources: INSEE, census 2023 (population, employment, commuting) · INSEE, Filosofi 2023 (income per consumption unit, poverty) · 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.