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With 1,586 residents, it is a town in Pyrénées-Orientales, Occitanie.
Schools lag (D): brevet results 5 points below the expected rate. Buying 70 m² at the median €2,711/m² takes 7.5 years of the median income per consumption unit in the Communauté de communes Sud-Roussillon. It lags on jobs & income as well (D) — 0.3 jobs per working resident; 13.2% unemployment. Few people walk, cycle or take the bus to work (C−).
Figures: brevet and bac results, Ministry of Education · employment and commuting, INSEE census 2023 · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025. Montescot 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.
Each subject compares Montescot 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.
Montescot has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents.
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The one thing Montescot does most differently from other towns.
The Culture ministry lists no building in Montescot as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Ancienne maternité Suisse d'Elne, ancien château d'En Bardou, in Elne, 1.3 mi away.
3.2% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Explore the history →Nothing in Montescot is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Montescot.
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
The nearest general lycée is 4.2 mi away. Collège pupils travel 2.4 mi to the nearest one.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Paul LangevinNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 226 | 77%−5 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.
The market in Montescot: 49 sales of houses and apartments between July 2023 and June 2026. The estimated advertised rent is €12.73/m² a month, higher than Pyrénées-Orientales’ towns (€11.84/m²) and near compared French towns (€12.41/m²). Houses are advertised at an estimated €11.56/m² a month.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €2,728/m² | 46 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Unemployment stood at 13.2%, between Pyrénées-Orientales’ towns (14.7%) and compared French towns (10.1%). Households’ median disposable income: €25,760 a year per consumption unit. 2.5% of Montescot’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
The 15-to-24 age group makes up nearly one in ten residents. 28% of residents are 65 or over, near Pyrénées-Orientales’ towns (28%) and higher than compared French towns (22%). Half of Montescot is older than 52.8, half younger.
53% women, 47% men
About 90 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.
| Montescot | Pyrénées-Orientales median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 13% | 16% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 8.6% | 9.4% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 19% | 21% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 31% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 28% | 28% | 22% |
| No diploma | 16% | 19% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 27% | 27% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 21% | 20% | 18% |
| Higher education | 30% | 27% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Pyrénées-Orientales median and France median: the median of compared communes
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
In Pyrénées-Orientales, women can expect to live 85.5 years and men 78.9 (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 across France. From 2016 to 2025, 141 residents of Montescot died, against 156 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 9% fewer. Adjusted for age and care homes, Montescot records 91 deaths per 100 expected, lower than Pyrénées-Orientales’ towns (96) and near compared French towns (88).
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 · That adjustment for care homes is a model of TownRatings’ own, not official data. A less sure grade: it could be anywhere from C− to B+.
2025 saw 18 offenses recorded in Montescot. Violence against people averaged 3.7 per 1,000 residents a year over 2023–2025; graded property crimes averaged 13.2. Among the graded crimes locally, the most frequent 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 · When family violence, other physical violence, sexual violence, 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 (46.5% of the index here). The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Museums, heritage and family days out in and near Montescot. Best known first.
MuseumCloître d'Elne3.5 km east, in ElneFortFortPorte de Perpignan3.5 km east, in ElneFortFortPorte de Collioure3.7 km east, in ElneTheme parkTheme parkLa plaine du Dahu2.4 km west, in BagesAttractionAttractionVerrerie D’art3.3 km east, in ElneArt galleryArt galleryLa Galerie4.8 km southeast, in Palau-del-VidrePhotos from Wikimedia Commons, each under its own licence (our copy, resized).
Wikidata has nobody with a French article born in Montescot yet.
Commune in Pyrénées-Orientales, Occitanie
Montescot is a commune of 1,586 people in the Communauté de communes Sud-Roussillon. 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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Montescot | 1,586 | — | — | C− | — | C+ |
| Corneilla-del-Vercol | 2,696 | 1.6 | — | C | — | C |
| Villeneuve-de-la-Raho | 4,470 | 2 | C | D | B | A− |
| Bages | 4,560 | 2 | C | C+ | A− | C |
| Elne | 9,511 | 2.1 | D | C | D | D |
| Palau-del-Vidre | 3,329 | 3 | C− | C | A− | C |
| Alénya | 3,782 | 3.3 | B− | C− | A− | B− |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Montescot has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 5 burglaries and 13 acts of criminal damage.
They grade D, better than 6% of compared French towns. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns, so Montescot grades C− for cost of living.
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.