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Some 2,256 people live in this town, in Pyrénées-Orientales, Occitanie.
Health outcomes beat most towns (B+): after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 19% below expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. It also does well on walkability: 75% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 8% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. Housing is expensive: at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 9.2 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Schools are weaker too: bac results 5 points below the expected rate; brevet results 2 points below the expected rate.
Figures: deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025) · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · commuting, INSEE census 2023 · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · brevet and bac results, Ministry of Education. Laroque-des-Albères 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 Laroque-des-Albères does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Laroque-des-Albères 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.
Laroque-des-Albères 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 Laroque-des-Albères as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Église Saint-Michel, in Saint-Génis-des-Fontaines, 1.5 mi away.
Explore the history →Other places to visit, heritage and museums in and near Laroque-des-Albères. Best known first.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Laroque-des-Albères.
Degrees are held by two in five adults. Just over two in five residents are 65 or over, above both Pyrénées-Orientales’ towns (28%) and compared French towns (22%). People aged 15 to 24 make up 6.6% of the town.
52% women, 48% men
About 91 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Pyrénées-Orientales 52.6%, France 51.8%. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
| Laroque-des-Albères | Pyrénées-Orientales median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 9.9% | 16% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 6.6% | 9.4% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 13% | 21% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 29% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 42% | 28% | 22% |
| No diploma | 12% | 19% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 22% | 27% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 19% | 20% | 18% |
| Higher education | 40% | 27% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Pyrénées-Orientales median and France median: the median of compared communes
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
Renting a house costs an estimated €11.29/m² a month. Between July 2023 and June 2026, buyers took 134 homes in Laroque-des-Albères. Advertised rents are estimated at €11.60/m² a month, near Pyrénées-Orientales’ towns (€11.84/m²) and lower than compared French towns (€12.41/m²).
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €3,230/m² | 130 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Collège pupils travel 2.6 mi to the nearest one.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Pierre Mendès FranceNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 130 | 88%−2 pts |
| Lycée Alfred SauvyNearest lycéeVocational lycée | Vocational lycée | 80 | 80%−5 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
At birth, a girl in Pyrénées-Orientales can expect 85.5 years and a boy 78.9 (2025); across France, 85.9 and 80.3. From 2016 to 2025, 292 residents of Laroque-des-Albères died, against 362 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 19% fewer. Also worth knowing: the nearest emergency department to Laroque-des-Albères is Clinique du Vallespir, 9.5 mi away. For a family doctor, residents of Laroque-des-Albères can choose among 2 GPs.
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.
For its 650 residents in work, Laroque-des-Albères has 450 jobs: 0.7 each. Unemployment stood at 14.9%, near Pyrénées-Orientales’ towns (14.7%) and higher than compared French towns (10.1%). At the census, nearly one in ten commuters walked, cycled or took the bus or train.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Per 1,000 residents a year, there were 2.9 cases of violence against people and 16.3 graded property crimes (2023–2025 average). The 2025 count: 46 offenses in Laroque-des-Albères. In 2025, burglary led the graded crimes in the town.
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 · Small counts of family violence, other physical violence, sexual violence, vehicle theft and theft from vehicles go unpublished (five or fewer in at least one of the last three years); the département’s average stands in, 26.0% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Nothing in Laroque-des-Albères is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
One notable person was born in Laroque-des-Albères.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Laroque-des-Albères | 2,256 | — | — | C− | — | B+ |
| Sorède | 3,512 | 1.3 | B− | C− | A | B− |
| Saint-Génis-des-Fontaines | 3,059 | 1.3 | — | C | — | B |
| Saint-André | 3,388 | 2.7 | D | C | C+ | C+ |
| Palau-del-Vidre | 3,329 | 3.5 | C− | C | A− | C |
| Argelès-sur-Mer | 10,616 | 5 | D− | D | D− | D |
| Le Boulou | 5,487 | 5.1 | D | C | D | B |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Laroque-des-Albères has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 26 burglaries and 20 acts of criminal damage.
They grade C, better than 28% of compared French towns. At the collège (Collège Pierre Mendès France), 88.0% passed the brevet, 2 points below the expected rate. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Laroque-des-Albères grades C− for cost of living.
Commune in Pyrénées-Orientales, Occitanie
Laroque-des-Albères is a commune of 2,256 people in the Communauté de communes des Albères, de la Côte Vermeille et de l'Illibéris. 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.