Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Some 1,255 people live in this town, in Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
Schools do well: bac results at the expected rate; brevet results 1.8 points above the expected rate. Buying a home costs less than in most towns (B+): at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 5.2 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Its lowest grade is for walkability: a quarter of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 6% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work.
Figures: brevet and bac results, Ministry of Education · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · commuting and employment, INSEE census 2023. Mirepeix 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 one thing Mirepeix does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Mirepeix 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.
Mirepeix 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 Mirepeix as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Maison carrée ou de Jeanne d'Albret, in Nay, 0.9 mi away.
16% 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 Mirepeix.
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Vocational results within 5 km: 90% passed the bac pro, of 60 candidates at 2 lycées. For collège, the closest is 0.8 mi away. At the two general lycées, 99% of 215 candidates passed the bac, at the expected rate.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Henri IVNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 164 | 95%+1 pt |
| Lycée Paul ReyNearest lycéeGeneral lycée | General lycée | 132 | 98%±0 pts |
| Collège privé Saint-Joseph PrivateBest against expectations: 3 points above the expected rateCollège | Collège | 118 | 100%+3 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
At the census, 2.9% of working residents in Mirepeix didn’t travel to work at all. The median disposable income is €26,350 a year per consumption unit. 6.0% of the town’s working residents walked, cycled or took public transport to work in the 2023 census, against 13% for the median of compared French towns; 90% drove.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
At the median, a home went for €1,969/m², below Pyrénées-Atlantiques’ towns (€2,784/m²) and compared French towns (€2,430/m²) alike. From July 2023 to June 2026, 47 homes were sold in Mirepeix. Houses made up 94% of the homes sold; apartments the rest.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €1,972/m² | 44 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
Life expectancy at birth in Pyrénées-Atlantiques is 86.4 years for women and 81.3 for men (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 across France. France’s death rates at each age would predict 124 deaths in Mirepeix from 2016 to 2025; there were 101, 18% fewer. The nearest emergency department to Mirepeix is Centre hospitalier de Pau, 10.5 mi away.
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 C to A.
Children are 17% of the town. Young adults of 15 to 24 are 9.1% of residents, near Pyrénées-Atlantiques’ towns (9.3%) and lower than compared French towns (11%). The age that splits Mirepeix in two is 47.7.
51% women, 49% men
About 96 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Pyrénées-Atlantiques 52.5%, France 51.8%.
| Mirepeix | Pyrénées-Atlantiques median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 17% | 15% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 9.1% | 9.3% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 20% | 22% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 30% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 24% | 25% | 22% |
| No diploma | 14% | 15% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 31% | 25% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 18% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 31% | 36% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Pyrénées-Atlantiques median and France median: the median of compared communes
2025 saw 6 offenses recorded in Mirepeix. On average over 2023–2025, every 1,000 residents saw 3 violent offenses and 6.3 graded property crimes a year. The commonest graded crime locally was criminal damage (2025).
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.
Source: SSMSI (Interior Ministry), recorded crime by commune, 2023–2025 · Licence Ouverte · For family violence, other physical violence, burglary and theft from vehicles, the count isn’t published when it’s small (five or fewer in a year of the last three), so the index uses the département’s average, 65.5% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Heritage and museums in and near Mirepeix. Best known first.
Nothing in Mirepeix is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
2 notable people were born in Mirepeix.
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more. The map uses IGN’s commune boundaries. See them on the map →
Mirepeix has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average.
They grade A, better than 86% of compared French towns. 98% of 132 candidates passed the bac at Lycée Paul Rey in 2025, at the expected rate given its pupils’ backgrounds. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Mirepeix grades B+ for cost of living.
Commune in Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Mirepeix is a commune of 1,255 people in the Communauté de communes Pays de Nay. 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 9, 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.