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A town of 2,346 in Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
Urt’s best grade is for jobs & income (A−) — 0.5 jobs per working resident; 5.3% unemployment. Walkability is its weak spot: 53% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 4% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. Buying 70 m² at the median €3,344/m² takes 8.8 years of the median income per consumption unit in the Communauté d'agglomération du Pays Basque.
Figures: employment and commuting, INSEE census 2023 · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi. Urt 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 Urt does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Urt 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.
Urt 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 Urt as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Château de Guiche, in Guiche, 5.1 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 Urt.
After tax and benefits, the median income is €27,630 a year per consumption unit. 4.9% of Urt’s working residents had no journey to work at the census.
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.
Advertised rents are estimated at €10.65/m² a month, lower than both Pyrénées-Atlantiques’ towns (€13.04/m²) and compared French towns (€12.41/m²). Houses made up 69% of the homes sold; apartments the rest. Between July 2023 and June 2026, buyers took 54 homes in Urt.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €3,484/m² | 37 |
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. 273 deaths in Urt between 2016 and 2025, where France’s rates at each age predict 251: 9% above. Its care home for older people (55 places) counts its residents as Urt’s; allowing for it, deaths were 15% below expected. The nearest emergency department to Urt is Clinique Belharra, 8.1 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 adjustment for care homes is TownRatings’ own modeling, not an official figure. A less sure grade: it could be anywhere from C+ to A−.
Children under 15 make up 17%, above Pyrénées-Atlantiques’ towns (15%) and close to compared French towns (17%). The age that splits Urt in two is 46.1. Degrees are held by just over a third of adults.
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Pyrénées-Atlantiques 52.5%, France 51.8%.
| Urt | Pyrénées-Atlantiques median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 17% | 15% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 8.1% | 9.3% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 24% | 22% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 27% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 25% | 25% | 22% |
| No diploma | 12% | 15% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 29% | 25% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 20% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 34% | 36% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Pyrénées-Atlantiques median and France median: the median of compared communes
The graded crime recorded most in Urt was other physical violence (2025). For 2025, the figures show 33 offenses here. Per 1,000 residents a year, there were 4.5 cases of violence against people and 5.5 graded property crimes (2023–2025 average).
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 · When family violence, sexual violence, burglary, vehicle theft and theft from vehicles number five or fewer in a recent year, the figure is withheld, and the index uses the département’s average instead (34.9% of the index here). The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Heritage and other places to visit in and near Urt. Best known first.
Nothing in Urt is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
Wikidata places 1 person here, but the articles don’t both confirm Urt 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 →
Urt 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 Urt grades C+ for cost of living.
Commune in Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Urt is a commune of 2,346 people in the Communauté d'agglomération du Pays Basque. 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.