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A town of 2,902 in Tarn, Occitanie. It skews older: 29% of residents are 65 or over.
Low prices, and some weak spots to weigh against them. Prices are modest for what you get (A−): at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 3.6 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Blaye-les-Mines’s overall grade, A−, puts it better than 85% of compared French towns. The ranking puts it #9 of 20 in Tarn. Add health to its strengths: after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 20% below expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. Work and incomes lag: 0.9 jobs per working resident; 16.8% unemployment.
Figures: prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025) · employment, INSEE census 2023.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas. The overall grade uses the other six subjects.
The 3 things Blaye-les-Mines does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Blaye-les-Mines 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.
How TownRatings grades French towns →
The Culture ministry lists no building in Blaye-les-Mines as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Église Saint-Pierre, in Monestiés, 3.6 mi away.
13% 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 Blaye-les-Mines.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
Advertised rents are estimated at €9.32/m² a month, below both Tarn’s towns (€10.21/m²) and compared French towns (€12.41/m²). Renting a house costs an estimated €8.17/m² a month. Houses accounted for 98% of sales, apartments for the rest.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €1,174/m² | 92 |
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.
The nearest emergency department to Blaye-les-Mines is Clinique Claude Bernard Ctre Medico Chirurgical Obstetrical, 7.3 mi away. From 2016 to 2025, 346 residents of Blaye-les-Mines died, against 434 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 20% fewer. Ages and care homes taken into account, deaths in Blaye-les-Mines come to 80 per 100 predicted. Women in Tarn live to 86.5 on average and men to 81.6 (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 across France.
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.
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Its schools’ results rank #4 of 23 in Tarn. Collège pupils travel 1 mi to the nearest one. Near Blaye-les-Mines, 92.9% of lycée candidates passed the bac, below Tarn’s towns (95.3%) and close to compared French towns (92.9%).
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Augustin MalrouxNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 142 | 87%±0 pts |
| Lycée polyvalent Jean JaurèsNearest lycéeGeneral lycée | General lycée | 143 | 97%+1 pt |
| Collège Victor HugoBest against expectations: 6 points above the expected rateCollège | Collège | 81 | 94%+6 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Under 15: 14% of residents. People 65 and over make up 29% of the town, above Tarn’s towns (27%) and compared French towns (22%) alike. The share aged 15 to 24 is 9.7%.
52% women, 48% men
About 93 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Tarn 52.2%, France 51.8%. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
| Blaye-les-Mines | Tarn median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 14% | 16% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 9.7% | 9.2% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 19% | 20% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 28% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 29% | 27% | 22% |
| No diploma | 26% | 22% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 34% | 26% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 17% | 19% | 18% |
| Higher education | 15% | 27% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Tarn median and France median: the median of compared communes
On average over 2023–2025, every 1,000 residents saw 8.1 violent offenses and 9.3 graded property crimes a year. All told, Blaye-les-Mines had 71 recorded offenses in 2025. Of the graded crimes locally, criminal damage came up most often (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 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 (10.4% of the index here). As that share tops 10%, this Safety Grade carries more doubt than most. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
The median disposable income is €21,190 a year per consumption unit. Bus, tram or train carried 3.4% of working residents in Blaye-les-Mines to work at the census. At the census, 2.4% of working residents in Blaye-les-Mines didn’t travel to work at all.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Other places to visit, museums and family days out in and near Blaye-les-Mines. Best known first.
Nothing in Blaye-les-Mines is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
3 notable people were born in Blaye-les-Mines.
Pierre Jean Louis Campmas: Bruno Galiber d'Auque, CC BY-SA 4.0
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blaye-les-Mines | 2,902 | — | A− | A− | B+ | B+ |
| Carmaux | 9,872 | 1.2 | B+ | A− | C | B+ |
| Cagnac-les-Mines | 2,621 | 3.8 | — | B | — | C− |
| Lescure-d'Albigeois | 4,590 | 5.4 | B+ | B− | A− | B+ |
| Arthès | 2,528 | 6.1 | — | B | — | A |
| Saint-Juéry | 6,564 | 7 | B+ | B | A− | A− |
| Albi | 51,290 | 7.4 | B | C+ | C | B+ |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
It grades B+ for safety, #10 of 20 in Tarn. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 11 burglaries and 28 acts of criminal damage.
They grade B+, better than 73% of compared French towns and #4 of 23 in Tarn. The lycée stands out: 97% of 143 candidates passed the bac at Lycée polyvalent Jean Jaurès in 2025, a point above the expected rate given its pupils’ backgrounds. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns too, so Blaye-les-Mines grades A− for cost of living.
Commune in Tarn, Occitanie
Blaye-les-Mines is a commune of 2,902 people in the Communauté de communes Carmausin-Ségala. 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.