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A town of 2,637 in Tarn, Occitanie.
Soual grades A overall: better than 87% of compared French towns, and #5 of 20 in Tarn. At the median price of €1,667/m², a 70 m² home costs 4.6 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 37% 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 Soual does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Soual 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 Soual as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Ancienne abbaye bénédictine Notre-Dame de la Sagne, in Vielmur-sur-Agout, 4.9 mi away.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Soual.
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
For Soual, that is below both Tarn’s towns (80) and compared French towns (88). From 2016 to 2025, 204 residents of Soual died, against 291 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 30% 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
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
The median price, €1,667/m², comes from 57 sales of houses and apartments in Soual from July 2023 to June 2026. The estimated advertised rent is €10.67/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 | €1,711/m² | 55 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
8.7% of residents are 15 to 24 and 25% are 65 or over, against 9.2% and 27% in the median compared commune of Tarn. 26% of adults who have left education hold a higher-education diploma (Tarn 27%, France 30%).
52% women, 48% men
About 94 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Tarn 52.2%, France 51.8%.
| Soual | Tarn median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 17% | 16% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 8.7% | 9.2% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 24% | 20% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 26% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 25% | 27% | 22% |
| No diploma | 22% | 22% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 26% | 26% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 20% | 19% | 18% |
| Higher education | 26% | 27% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Tarn median and France median: the median of compared communes
7.5% of Soual’s working residents walked, cycled or took public transport to work in the 2023 census, against 13% for the median of compared French towns; 86% drove.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Police and gendarmerie recorded 74 offenses in the graded categories in Soual in 2025. For family violence, sexual violence 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, 5.4% of the index here. With 1,500 jobs for 1,100 working residents, Soual draws people from neighboring communes, and crimes are counted in the commune where they happen, then divided by its number of residents.
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
Heritage and gardens in and near Soual. Best known first.
Nothing in Soual is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
One notable person was born in Soual.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Soual | 2,637 | — | A | B+ | B− | A+ |
| Saïx | 3,748 | 3.2 | A | A− | A− | A− |
| Puylaurens | 3,257 | 5.6 | — | A | — | C+ |
| Castres | 42,505 | 7.2 | B− | B | C− | B+ |
| Labruguière | 6,584 | 7.3 | A | A− | A− | B− |
| Sorèze | 2,965 | 8 | — | B+ | — | C+ |
| Revel Haute-Garonne | 9,762 | 8.7 | A− | B+ | C+ | A |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
It grades B− for safety, #14 of 20 in Tarn. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 19 burglaries and 23 acts of criminal damage.
Homes cost less than in most compared French towns: the median sale price from July 2023 to June 2026 was €1,667/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns too, so Soual grades B+ for cost of living.
Commune in Tarn, Occitanie
Soual is a commune of 2,637 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.