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Home to 1,360 people, this town lies in Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
Prices are modest for what you get: at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 3.4 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Residents’ health trails most towns (C−): after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 2% above expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. Its remaining grades are unremarkable: B for schools, B− for jobs & income and B for walkability. Homes go for a median €1,325/m².
Figures: prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025) · brevet and bac results, Ministry of Education · employment and commuting, INSEE census 2023 · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025. Garlin 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 Garlin does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Garlin 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.
Garlin 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 Garlin as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Église de l'Assomption de la Bienheureuse Vierge Marie de Taron, in Taron-Sadirac-Viellenave, 3.6 mi away.
14% 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 Garlin.
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
Its care home for older people (85 places) counts its residents as Garlin’s; allowing for it, deaths were 2% above expected. From 2016 to 2025, 358 residents of Garlin died, against 252 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 42% more. Also worth knowing: the nearest emergency department to Garlin is Gcs Pays de L Adour, 10.8 mi away. At birth, a girl in Pyrénées-Atlantiques can expect 86.4 years and a boy 81.3 (2025); across France, 85.9 and 80.3.
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 step is TownRatings’ own calculation, not an official number.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
Renting a house costs an estimated €8.51/m² a month. From July 2023 to June 2026, 30 homes were sold in Garlin. That is the middle of 30 sales of houses and apartments locally from July 2023 to June 2026, against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns and €2,784/m² for the median of compared towns in Pyrénées-Atlantiques.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €1,325/m² | 30 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
14% are under 15, below Pyrénées-Atlantiques’ towns (15%) and compared French towns (17%) alike. Among adults, 27% have a degree. Typical age in Garlin: 49.9, the median.
52% women, 48% men
About 92 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Pyrénées-Atlantiques 52.5%, France 51.8%. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
| Garlin | Pyrénées-Atlantiques median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 14% | 15% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 9.6% | 9.3% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 21% | 22% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 23% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 33% | 25% | 22% |
| No diploma | 21% | 15% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 28% | 25% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 20% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 27% | 36% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Pyrénées-Atlantiques median and France median: the median of compared communes
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Joseph PeyreNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 58 | 90%−1 pt |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
For its 550 residents in work, Garlin has 600 jobs: 1.1 each. Unemployment stood at 8.1%, below Pyrénées-Atlantiques’ towns (9.1%) and compared French towns (10.1%) alike. Public transport took 3.1% of the town’s working residents to work at the census.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Nothing in Garlin is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
One notable person was born in Garlin.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Garlin | 1,360 | — | — | A− | — | C− |
| Aire-sur-l'Adour Landes | 6,211 | 10 | B+ | B+ | B− | C− |
| Sauvagnon | 3,579 | 12 | — | B− | — | B+ |
| Serres-Castet | 4,418 | 13 | A+ | B | A+ | B+ |
| Morlaàs | 4,374 | 15 | A+ | C+ | A | B+ |
| Lons | 13,606 | 17 | A− | C | B | A− |
| Hagetmau Landes | 4,624 | 17 | A | B+ | A | C |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Garlin has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. Recorded figures: an average of 3.2 recorded violent incidents and 3.9 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
They grade B, better than 61% 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 Garlin grades A− for cost of living.
Commune in Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Garlin is a commune of 1,360 people in the Communauté de communes des Luys en Béarn. 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 8, 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.