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A town of 2,025 in Tarn, Occitanie.
Le Sequestre has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents. Its weakest subject is cost of living (C): at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 6.8 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Its strongest is health (A−): after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 23% 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.
Each subject compares Le Sequestre 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 Culture ministry lists no building in Le Sequestre as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Cathédrale Sainte-Cécile, in Albi, 1.9 mi away.
3% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Explore the history →Museums, other places to visit and heritage in and near Le Sequestre. Best known first.
AttractionCathédrale Sainte-Cécile d'Albi3 km northeast, in Albi
MuseumMusée Toulouse-Lautrec3.1 km northeast, in Albi
MuseumMusée Lapérouse3.5 km northeast, in Albi
GardenJardins de la Berbie3.1 km northeast, in AlbiChâteauChâteauPalais de la Berbie3.1 km northeast, in AlbiChâteauChâteauChâteau de Castelnau-de-Lévis4.2 km northwest, in Castelnau-de-LévisPhotos from Wikimedia Commons, each under its own licence (our copy, resized).
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Le Sequestre.
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
Adjusted for age and care homes, Le Sequestre records 77 deaths per 100 expected, close to Tarn’s towns (80) and below compared French towns (88). The care-home adjustment is a TownRatings modeling step, not an official statistic. A less sure grade: it could be anywhere from B− to A.
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
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
The median price, €2,459/m², comes from 57 sales of houses and apartments in Le Sequestre from July 2023 to June 2026.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €2,397/m² | 53 |
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.
At the lycées within 5 km of Le Sequestre, 96.7% passed the bac, above both Tarn’s towns (95.3%) and compared French towns (92.9%).
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Sainte-Marie PrivateNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 104 | 100%+3 pts |
| Lycée général et technologique privé Amboise PrivateNearest lycéeGeneral lycée | General lycée | 106 | 100%+2 pts |
| Collège Bon Sauveur PrivateBest against expectations: 7 points above the expected rateCollège | Collège | 97 | 100%+7 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
In the comparison, Le Sequestre comes below both Tarn’s towns (10.8%) and compared French towns (10.1%). Le Sequestre has 950 jobs for 900 working residents, 1.1 per worker. 7.6% of commuters went to work on foot, by bike or by public transport at the census.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
For Le Sequestre, that is above both Tarn’s towns (16%) and compared French towns (17%). Over-65s are 22% of the population.
55% women, 45% men
About 83 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Tarn 52.2%, France 51.8%.
| Le Sequestre | Tarn median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 18% | 16% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 11% | 9.2% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 23% | 20% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 26% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 22% | 27% | 22% |
| No diploma | 15% | 22% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 26% | 26% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 22% | 19% | 18% |
| Higher education | 34% | 27% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Tarn median and France median: the median of compared communes
Police and gendarmerie recorded 29 offenses in the graded categories in Le Sequestre in 2025. For family violence, other physical violence, sexual violence, burglary and vehicle theft, 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, 26.8% 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 Le Sequestre is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
Wikidata has nobody with a French article born in Le Sequestre yet.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Le Sequestre | 2,025 | — | — | C | — | A− |
| Albi | 51,290 | 2.2 | B | C+ | C | B+ |
| Puygouzon | 3,548 | 3 | A | B− | A | B |
| Marssac-sur-Tarn | 3,518 | 4.1 | A | C | A+ | A |
| Lescure-d'Albigeois | 4,590 | 4.6 | B+ | B− | A− | B+ |
| Saint-Juéry | 6,564 | 5 | B+ | B | A− | A− |
| Cagnac-les-Mines | 2,621 | 5.1 | — | B | — | C− |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Le Sequestre has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. Recorded figures: an average of 2.4 recorded violent incidents and 12.4 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 73% of compared French towns. The lycée stands out: 100% of 106 candidates passed the bac at Lycée général et technologique privé Amboise in 2025, 2 points 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, so Le Sequestre grades C for cost of living.
Commune in Tarn, Occitanie
Le Sequestre is a commune of 2,025 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.