Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
3,753 residents make their home in this town in Pyrénées-Orientales, Occitanie.
Torreilles grades low on several counts. Safety is its weak spot (D): an average of 10.2 recorded violent incidents and 29.7 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Cost of living is weaker too: at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 9.5 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Fewer journeys need a car (B+): 98% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 7% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. The overall grade comes out at D−, behind almost every compared French town.
Figures: amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · commuting, INSEE census 2023 · recorded crime, SSMSI (Ministry of the Interior) · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas. The overall grade uses the other six subjects.
Each subject compares Torreilles 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.
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The 2 things Torreilles does most differently from other towns.
The Culture ministry’s list holds 1 historic monument in Torreilles; none is classé, France’s top protection.
The oldest protected part dates from the 20th century; the first monument here was protected in 2019.
Joseph Guiter, born in 1761, is the one person born in Torreilles before 1900 that Wikidata records.
Torreilles has one historic monument; beside it, the nearest classé monuments in other towns, within 15.5 mi.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Torreilles.
Criminal damage topped the graded crimes in Torreilles (2025). The police record for Torreilles lists 151 offenses in 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 armed robbery number five or fewer in a recent year, the figure is withheld, and the index uses the département’s average instead (0.1% of the index here). The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
Houses accounted for 93% of sales, apartments for the rest. Estimated advertised rent for houses: €10.93/m² a month. Torreilles recorded 263 home sales from July 2023 to June 2026.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €3,061/m² | 245 |
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.
Weighed against its ages and care homes, Torreilles records 104 deaths per 100 expected. 328 deaths here between 2016 and 2025, where France’s rates at each age predict 316: 4% above. Average lifespans in Pyrénées-Orientales: 85.5 years for women, 78.9 for men (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 nationally.
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.
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
The closest lycée for the general bac is 4 mi off. Its schools’ results rank #41 of 46 in Pyrénées-Orientales.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Jean MermozNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 230 | 81%−2 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
1,100 jobs are based in Torreilles, for 1,450 working residents (0.7 per worker). No commute at all: 4.4% of working residents here at the census. The median disposable income is €25,040 a year per consumption unit.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
The oldest protected building goes back to the 20th century. Homes from before 1919 make up 8.3% of the total, above Pyrénées-Orientales’ towns (5.7%) and compared French towns (7.4%) alike.
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
The 65-and-over age group makes up a quarter of residents. The median resident of Torreilles is 48.5 years old. Degrees are held by 27% of adults, near Pyrénées-Orientales’ towns (27%) and lower than compared French towns (30%).
52% women, 48% men
About 92 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Pyrénées-Orientales 52.6%, France 51.8%.
| Torreilles | Pyrénées-Orientales median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 15% | 16% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 8.4% | 9.4% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 21% | 21% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 30% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 25% | 28% | 22% |
| No diploma | 17% | 19% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 29% | 27% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 21% | 20% | 18% |
| Higher education | 27% | 27% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Pyrénées-Orientales median and France median: the median of compared communes
Family days out, other places to visit and museums in and near Torreilles. Best known first.
One notable person was born in Torreilles.
Commune in Pyrénées-Orientales, Occitanie
Torreilles is a commune of 3,753 people in the Communauté urbaine Perpignan Méditerranée Métropole. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Torreilles | 3,753 | — | D− | D | D | C− |
| Saint-Laurent-de-la-Salanque | 9,898 | 1.2 | D | C− | C+ | C |
| Sainte-Marie-la-Mer | 4,952 | 2.3 | D− | D− | D | C |
| Villelongue-de-la-Salanque | 3,335 | 2.3 | D | C− | B− | C+ |
| Claira | 4,922 | 2.5 | D− | D | C+ | C− |
| Saint-Hippolyte | 3,126 | 2.7 | D | C− | B+ | C+ |
| Le Barcarès | 6,109 | 3.7 | D− | D− | D− | C |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
It grades D for safety, #39 of 43 in Pyrénées-Orientales. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 22 burglaries and 43 acts of criminal damage.
They grade C−, better than 18% of compared French towns and #41 of 46 in Pyrénées-Orientales. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Estimated advertised apartment rents are €12.25/m² a month, charges included. Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns, so Torreilles grades D 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.