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It is a town of 1,277 residents in Tarn, Occitanie.
Schools do well: brevet results 7 points above the expected rate. Buying a home costs less than in most towns: A year’s estimated rent on a 70 m² apartment is 32% of the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Elsewhere it is close to typical: C+ for health and C+ for jobs & income. It skews older: 37% of residents are 65 or over.
Figures: brevet and bac results, Ministry of Education · 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. Valence-d'Albigeois has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas.
Each subject compares Valence-d'Albigeois 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.
Valence-d'Albigeois has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents.
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The 2 things Valence-d'Albigeois does most differently from other towns.
The Culture ministry lists no building in Valence-d'Albigeois as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Viaduc du Viaur, in Tauriac-de-Naucelle, 8 mi away.
20% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Explore the history →Nothing in Valence-d'Albigeois is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Valence-d'Albigeois.
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
At the collèges within 5 km of Valence-d'Albigeois, 95.0% passed the brevet, above both Tarn’s towns (88.3%) and compared French towns (87.5%). The closest lycée for the general bac is 13 mi off.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Eustache de BeaumarchaisNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 42 | 95%+7 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
People aged 15 to 24 are nearly a tenth of the population. Degrees are held by a fifth of adults, below both Tarn’s towns (27%) and compared French towns (30%).
55% women, 45% men
About 81 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.
| Valence-d'Albigeois | Tarn median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 13% | 16% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 8.9% | 9.2% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 16% | 20% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 25% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 37% | 27% | 22% |
| No diploma | 30% | 22% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 27% | 26% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 17% | 19% | 18% |
| Higher education | 20% | 27% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Tarn median and France median: the median of compared communes
Valence-d'Albigeois has 700 jobs for 450 working residents, 1.5 per worker. At the census, 17.4% of commuters walked, cycled or took the bus or train. Half of residents lived on more than €23,060 a year per consumption unit, about level with Tarn’s towns (€24,045) and below compared French towns (€25,970).
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.
Between July 2023 and June 2026, buyers took 23 homes in Valence-d'Albigeois.
Source: Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
2 GPs practise in Valence-d'Albigeois. The nearest emergency department to Valence-d'Albigeois is Clinique Claude Bernard Ctre Medico Chirurgical Obstetrical, 13.1 mi away. Also worth knowing: 398 deaths here between 2016 and 2025, where France’s rates at each age predict 320: 24% above. In Tarn, women can expect to live 86.5 years and men 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 · This figure includes a care-home adjustment that TownRatings models; no official statistic exists.
Wikidata places 1 person here, but the articles don’t both confirm Valence-d'Albigeois as the birthplace, so nobody is listed.
Commune in Tarn, Occitanie
Valence-d'Albigeois is a commune of 1,277 people in the Communauté de communes Val 81. 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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Valence-d'Albigeois | 1,277 | — | — | A− | — | C+ |
| Arthès | 2,528 | 10 | — | B | — | A |
| Saint-Juéry | 6,564 | 11 | B+ | B | A− | A− |
| Lescure-d'Albigeois | 4,590 | 12 | B+ | B− | A− | B+ |
| Carmaux | 9,872 | 12 | B+ | A− | C | B+ |
| Blaye-les-Mines | 2,902 | 12 | A− | A− | B+ | B+ |
| Cagnac-les-Mines | 2,621 | 13 | — | B | — | C− |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Valence-d'Albigeois has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. Recorded figures: an average of 3.8 recorded violent incidents and 10.2 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
They grade A+, better than 97% of compared French towns. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Sources: INSEE, census 2023 (population, employment, commuting) · INSEE, Filosofi 2023 (income per consumption unit, poverty) · 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.