School results are strong: brevet results 6 points above the expected rate. The weak point is health (C−): after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 3% above expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. Getting around depends on the car (D): 54% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 5% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. A tenth of its homes are second homes.
Figures: brevet and bac results, Ministry of Education · deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025) · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · commuting, INSEE census 2023. Buzy 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.
Each subject compares Buzy 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.
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Work & commuteJobs & income B−
Fewer people in Buzy are out of work than in Pyrénées-Atlantiques’ towns or across compared French towns: 5.4%
5%walk, cycle or take transit
The census found 5.1% of commuters going to work on foot, by bike or by public transport. Jobs located in Buzy: 100, for 450 residents in work (0.2 each). Half of residents lived on more than €25,980 a year per consumption unit, near both Pyrénées-Atlantiques’ towns (€26,830) and compared French towns (€25,970).
How working residents got to work · census 2023
Driving89%
Public transport3%
Bicycle2%
On foot1%
Motorbike or scooter1%
100
jobs based in Buzy, 0.2 per working resident
5.4%
unemployment rate, ages 15 to 64 in the labor force · median of compared French towns 10.1%
€25,980
median annual income per consumption unit, 2023 · median of compared French towns €25,970
5%
worked without traveling (at or from home)
D
Walkability: better than 14% of compared French towns
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
HealthHealth C−
More deaths than expected: Buzy is above 83% of compared French towns once ages and care homes are allowed for
+3%deaths against expected, after care homesC−Health Grade
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
96 deaths in Buzy between 2016 and 2025, where France’s rates at each age predict 94: 3% above. After the care-home adjustment, the town’s deaths ran at 103 per 100 expected, higher than both Pyrénées-Atlantiques’ towns (83) and compared French towns (88). The nearest emergency department to Buzy is Centre hospitalier Oloron, 9 mi away. Also worth knowing: in Pyrénées-Atlantiques, women can expect to live 86.4 years and men 81.3 (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 across France.
Deaths per 100 expected · 2016–2025
Raw103
Adjusted103
Median town88
Expected100
0
GPs in Buzy · 5.1 GP consultations a year per resident within reach (APL)
9 mi
to the nearest emergency department, Centre hospitalier Oloron
14 mi
to the nearest maternity unit, Polyclinique Pau Pyrenees site Navarre
86.4 · 81.3
years of life expectancy at birth, women · men, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, 2025 (provisional) · France 85.9 · 80.3
Source: Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Who lives here
Few people in Buzy are 15 to 24: 7.1%, fewer than in Pyrénées-Atlantiques’ towns and across compared French towns
47.6median age
26% of residents are 65 or over, close to Pyrénées-Atlantiques’ towns (25%) and above compared French towns (22%). Children are 17% of the town. Degrees are held by nearly a third of adults.
BuzyPyrénées-Atlantiques medianFrance median
Ages · share of residents
26%
Under 1515–2425–4445–6465+
Highest diploma · residents 15 and older who have left education
No diploma11%
CAP or BEP31%
Baccalauréat22%
Higher education32%
Women and men · all residents
50% women, 50% men
WomenFrance medianMen
About an even split. Median share of women: Pyrénées-Atlantiques 52.5%, France 51.8%.
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
Safety
Buzy has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average
4.3recorded violent incidents per 1,000 residents a year
On average over 2023–2025, every 1,000 residents saw 4.3 violent offenses and 3.3 graded property crimes a year. More of the graded crimes in Buzy were armed robbery than anything else (2025).
Recorded by type · 2025
Armed robbery0
Vehicle theft0
Theft from vehicles0
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.
4.3
recorded violent incidents per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025 average
3.3
recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025 average
0
offenses recorded in the graded categories in 2025
100.0%
of the index rests on the département’s average, used where small counts aren’t published
Source: SSMSI (Interior Ministry), recorded crime by commune, 2023–2025 · Licence Ouverte · For family violence, other physical violence, sexual violence, burglary and criminal damage, this figure isn’t published when it’s small (five or fewer in at least one of the last three years); the index uses the département’s average instead, 100.0% of the index here.
Commune in Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Buzy is a commune of 1,006 people in the Communauté de communes de la Vallée d'Ossau. 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
1,006 (INSEE, census 2023)
Intercommunality
Communauté de communes de la Vallée d'Ossau
Département
Pyrénées-Atlantiques (64)
Région
Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Area
6.5 sq mi (16.9 km²)
INSEE code
64157
Buzy’s neighbors
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more. The map uses IGN’s commune boundaries. See them on the map →
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.
