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1,672 residents make their home in this town in Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
Ousse’s standout strength is health (B+): after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 21% below expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. Buying in is costly (C): at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 7 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality.
Figures: deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025) · employment, INSEE census 2023 · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi. Ousse 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 Ousse does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Ousse 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.
Ousse has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents.
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The Culture ministry lists no building in Ousse as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Église Sainte-Foy, in Morlaàs, 4.3 mi away.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Ousse.
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
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. 93 deaths in Ousse between 2016 and 2025, where France’s rates at each age predict 117: 21% below. There are 3 general practitioners locally.
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. A less sure grade: it could be anywhere from C+ to A.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
Advertised rents are estimated at €11.74/m² a month, lower than both Pyrénées-Atlantiques’ towns (€13.04/m²) and compared French towns (€12.41/m²). Renting a house costs an estimated €11.44/m² a month. The market in Ousse: 43 sales of houses and apartments between July 2023 and June 2026.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €2,595/m² | 43 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Median disposable income comes to €31,190 a year per consumption unit. 5.4% of commuters walked, cycled or took the bus or train at the census, lower than both Pyrénées-Atlantiques’ towns (9.8%) and compared French towns (13.4%). Also worth knowing: at the census, 3.2% of working residents in Ousse didn’t travel to work at all.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
20% of residents are 65 or over, below Pyrénées-Atlantiques’ towns (25%) and compared French towns (22%) alike. The under-15s are 18% of the population here. Ousse has a median age of 46.9.
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Pyrénées-Atlantiques 52.5%, France 51.8%.
| Ousse | Pyrénées-Atlantiques median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 18% | 15% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 9.7% | 9.3% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 19% | 22% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 33% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 20% | 25% | 22% |
| No diploma | 7.6% | 15% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 26% | 25% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 18% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 44% | 36% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Pyrénées-Atlantiques median and France median: the median of compared communes
Violence against people ran at 2.2 per 1,000 residents a year and the graded property crimes at 2.8 (2023–2025 average). In 2025, sexual violence led the graded crimes in Ousse.
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, theft from vehicles 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.
Nothing in Ousse 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 Ousse yet.
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more. The map uses IGN’s commune boundaries. See them on the map →
Ousse has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average.
Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Ousse grades C for cost of living.
Commune in Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Ousse is a commune of 1,672 people in the Communauté d'agglomération Pau Béarn Pyrénées. 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.