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A town of 2,127 in Tarn, Occitanie.
Cambon has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents. Its weakest subject is walkability (D): 40% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 5% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. At the median price of €1,948/m², a 70 m² home costs 5.4 times the median annual income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size) in the Communauté d'agglomération de l'Albigeois (C2A). Its strongest is health (A+): after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 53% below expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas.
The 2 things Cambon does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Cambon 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 Cambon as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Centrale hydroélectrique numéro 1 du Saut du Tarn, in Saint-Juéry, 2.7 mi away.
3.9% 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 Cambon.
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
On this, Cambon is below both Tarn’s towns (80) and compared French towns (88). From 2016 to 2025, 80 residents of Cambon died, against 172 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 53% fewer. The care-home adjustment is a TownRatings modeling step, not an official statistic.
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
In the comparison, Cambon comes below both Tarn’s towns (10.8%) and compared French towns (10.1%). Cambon has 600 jobs for 1,000 working residents, 0.6 per worker. The median disposable income is €28,990 a year per consumption unit.
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.
The median price, €1,948/m², comes from 39 sales of houses and apartments in Cambon from July 2023 to June 2026. Advertised rents are estimated at €10.22/m² a month, close to Tarn’s towns (€10.21/m²) and below compared French towns (€12.41/m²).
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €1,948/m² | 39 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
For Cambon, that is above both Tarn’s towns (27%) and compared French towns (30%). 8.7% of residents are aged 15 to 24.
49% women, 51% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Tarn 52.2%, France 51.8%.
| Cambon | Tarn median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 18% | 16% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 8.7% | 9.2% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 20% | 20% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 30% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 24% | 27% | 22% |
| No diploma | 10% | 22% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 26% | 26% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 21% | 19% | 18% |
| Higher education | 38% | 27% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Tarn median and France median: the median of compared communes
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
At the lycées within 5 km of Cambon, 98.0% passed the bac, above both Tarn’s towns (95.3%) and compared French towns (92.9%).
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège du Saut de SaboNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 171 | 82%−6 pts |
| Lycée général BellevueNearest lycéeGeneral lycée | General lycée | 241 | 98%±0 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Police and gendarmerie recorded 7 offenses in the graded categories in Cambon in 2025. For family violence, sexual violence, vehicle theft, theft from vehicles and criminal damage, this figure isn’t published when it’s small (five or fewer in at least one of the last three years); the index uses the département’s average instead, 80.5% of the index here.
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
Nothing in Cambon is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
One notable person was born in Cambon.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cambon | 2,127 | — | — | B | — | A+ |
| Saint-Juéry | 6,564 | 2 | B+ | B | A− | A− |
| Puygouzon | 3,548 | 2.8 | A | B− | A | B |
| Arthès | 2,528 | 3.1 | — | B | — | A |
| Albi | 51,290 | 3.5 | B | C+ | C | B+ |
| Lescure-d'Albigeois | 4,590 | 3.8 | B+ | B− | A− | B+ |
| Cagnac-les-Mines | 2,621 | 6.3 | — | B | — | C− |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Cambon has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. Recorded figures: an average of 2.1 recorded violent incidents and 3.5 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
They grade B−, better than 46% of compared French towns. 98% of 241 candidates passed the bac at Lycée général Bellevue in 2025, at the expected rate given its pupils’ backgrounds. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Homes cost less than in most compared French towns: the median sale price from July 2023 to June 2026 was €1,948/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Cambon grades B for cost of living.
Commune in Tarn, Occitanie
Cambon is a commune of 2,127 people in the Communauté d'agglomération de l'Albigeois (C2A). 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 October 30, 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.