Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
It is a town of 930 residents in Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
Pardies isn’t graded: grades begin at 1,000 residents. It skews older: 29% of residents are 65 or over.
The one thing Pardies does most differently from other towns.
The Culture ministry lists no building in Pardies as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Église Saint-Girons, in Monein, 3 mi away.
19% 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 Pardies.
Children under 15 make up 16% of residents. Degrees are held by 23% of adults, below both Pyrénées-Atlantiques’ towns (36%) and compared French towns (30%). People 65 and over make up 29% of the town.
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Pyrénées-Atlantiques 52.5%, France 51.8%.
| Pardies | Pyrénées-Atlantiques median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 16% | 15% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 6.8% | 9.3% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 23% | 22% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 26% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 29% | 25% | 22% |
| No diploma | 17% | 15% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 33% | 25% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 22% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 23% | 36% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Pyrénées-Atlantiques median and France median: the median of compared communes
Pardies has 450 jobs for 350 working residents, 1.3 per worker. Unemployment stood at 8.6%, lower than both Pyrénées-Atlantiques’ towns (9.1%) and compared French towns (10.1%). No commute at all: 4.0% of working residents locally at the census.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Near Pardies, 97.1% of lycée candidates passed the bac, near Pyrénées-Atlantiques’ towns (96.5%) and higher than compared French towns (92.9%). For collège, the closest is 2 mi away. At the general lycée, 98% of 121 candidates passed the bac, a point above the expected rate.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Pierre BourdieuNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 45 | 89%+10 pts |
| Lycée Albert CamusNearest lycéeGeneral lycée | General lycée | 121 | 98%+1 pt |
| Collège Jean MoulinBest against expectations: 2 points above the expected rateCollège | Collège | 138 | 95%+2 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
25 houses and apartments changed hands in Pardies from July 2023 to June 2026. House rents are put at about €10.54/m² a month.
Source: Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Other places to visit, museums and heritage in and near Pardies. Best known first.
Nothing in Pardies is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
Wikidata places 2 people here, but for none of them do the articles confirm Pardies as the birthplace, so nobody is listed.
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more. The map uses IGN’s commune boundaries. See them on the map →
Commune in Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Pardies is a commune of 930 people in the Communauté de communes de Lacq-Orthez. 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) · 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.