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A town of 3,748 in Tarn, Occitanie.
Saïx grades A overall: better than 92% of compared French towns, and #2 of 20 in Tarn. Its weakest subject is walkability (D): 29% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 3% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. At the median price of €1,849/m², a 70 m² home costs 5.1 times the median annual income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size) in the Communauté de communes du Sor et de l'Agout. Its strongest is health (A−): after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 25% 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 overall grade uses the other six subjects.
The 2 things Saïx does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Saïx 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 1 historic monument in Saïx, none of them classé, France’s highest protection.
The oldest protected part dates from the 17th century; the first monument here was protected in 1987.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Saïx.
2.9% of commuters walked, cycled or took the bus or train at the census, below both Tarn’s towns (10.8%) and compared French towns (13.4%). 7.5% of the labour force are out of work. Saïx has 1,000 jobs for 1,500 working residents, 0.7 per worker.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
In the comparison, Saïx comes below both Tarn’s towns (80) and compared French towns (88). From 2016 to 2025, 506 residents of Saïx died, against 522 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 3% 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
Police and gendarmerie recorded 38 offenses in the graded categories in Saïx in 2025. Violence against people ran at 3.7 per 1,000 residents a year and the graded property crimes at 12.1 (2023–2025 average). For other physical violence, sexual violence, armed robbery, vehicle theft and theft from vehicles, 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, 10.4% of the index here. Because that share is over 10%, this Safety Grade is less sure than most.
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
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
For Saïx, that is below both Tarn’s towns (€10.21/m²) and compared French towns (€12.41/m²). The median price, €1,849/m², comes from 97 sales of houses and apartments in Saïx from July 2023 to June 2026.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €1,836/m² | 94 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Saïx sits below both Tarn’s towns (9.2%) and compared French towns (11%) on this measure. Those 65 and older account for 29% of residents.
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.
| Saïx | Tarn median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 16% | 16% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 8% | 9.2% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 22% | 20% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 25% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 29% | 27% | 22% |
| No diploma | 17% | 22% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 30% | 26% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 20% | 19% | 18% |
| Higher education | 28% | 27% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Tarn median and France median: the median of compared communes
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
The Culture ministry lists 1 historic monument in Saïx, none of them classé, France’s highest protection.
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
Heritage and gardens in and near Saïx. Best known first.
Saïx has one historic monument; beside it, the nearest classé monuments in other towns, within 15.5 mi.
Château de Sendrone: Photo: Jean Laval · CC BY-SA 3.0
Wikidata places 1 person here, but the articles don’t both confirm Saïx as the birthplace, so nobody is listed.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saïx | 3,748 | — | A | A− | A− | A− |
| Soual | 2,637 | 3.2 | A | B+ | B− | A+ |
| Castres | 42,505 | 4.1 | B− | B | C− | B+ |
| Labruguière | 6,584 | 5.7 | A | A− | A− | B− |
| Puylaurens | 3,257 | 7.9 | — | A | — | C+ |
| Aiguefonde | 2,505 | 9.8 | — | A− | — | A |
| Sorèze | 2,965 | 11 | — | B+ | — | C+ |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
It grades A− for safety, #7 of 20 in Tarn. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 15 burglaries and 12 acts of criminal damage.
Homes cost less than in most compared French towns: the median sale price from July 2023 to June 2026 was €1,849/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns too, so Saïx grades A− for cost of living.
Commune in Tarn, Occitanie
Saïx is a commune of 3,748 people in the Communauté de communes du Sor et de l'Agout. 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.