Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
A town of 9,408 in Var, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur.
Carqueiranne grades C overall: better than 25% of compared French towns, and #26 of 73 in Var. Its weakest subject is cost of living (D−): at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 16.4 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 24% 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 3 things Carqueiranne does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Carqueiranne 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 Carqueiranne as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Villa l'Artaude, in Le Pradet, 2.3 mi away.
3.5% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Explore the history →Heritage, museums and family days out in and near Carqueiranne. Best known first.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Carqueiranne.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
In the comparison, Carqueiranne comes above both Var’s towns (€3,797/m²) and compared French towns (€2,430/m²). In Carqueiranne, houses go for €7,403/m² and apartments for €5,352/m².
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €7,403/m² | 216 |
| Apartments | €5,352/m² | 318 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
For Carqueiranne, that is above both Var’s towns (26%) and compared French towns (22%). Children under 15 make up 10% of residents.
53% women, 47% men
About 89 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Var 51.4%, France 51.8%. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
| Carqueiranne | Var median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 10% | 15% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 7.3% | 8.8% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 15% | 21% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 28% | 28% | 26% |
| 65+ | 39% | 26% | 22% |
| No diploma | 14% | 16% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 20% | 25% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 19% | 20% | 18% |
| Higher education | 41% | 31% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Var median and France median: the median of compared communes
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
Carqueiranne sits below both Var’s towns (92) and compared French towns (88) on this measure. From 2016 to 2025, 1,174 residents of Carqueiranne died, against 1,512 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 22% 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 245 offenses in the graded categories in Carqueiranne in 2025. Violence against people ran at 6 per 1,000 residents a year and the graded property crimes at 22.4 (2023–2025 average). For armed robbery, 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, 0.4% 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
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
That puts Carqueiranne below both Var’s towns (85.4%) and compared French towns (87.5%).
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Frédéric Joliot CurieNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 177 | 85%−5 pts |
| Lycée CostebelleNearest lycéeGeneral lycée | General lycée | 367 | 95%−1 pt |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
On this, Carqueiranne is above both Var’s towns (€26,770) and compared French towns (€25,970). Carqueiranne has 1,900 jobs for 3,500 working residents, 0.5 per worker.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Nothing in Carqueiranne 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 Carqueiranne 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carqueiranne | 9,408 | — | C | D− | C− | A− |
| Le Pradet | 10,933 | 2.7 | B− | D− | B− | B+ |
| Hyères | 55,858 | 3.1 | C− | D− | C− | B+ |
| La Crau | 19,556 | 3.4 | C+ | D− | B+ | B |
| La Garde | 26,476 | 3.9 | C+ | D− | C | B |
| La Farlède | 10,014 | 5.2 | C | D | C | B+ |
| La Valette-du-Var | 23,719 | 5.3 | C | D | C | C+ |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
It grades C− for safety, #51 of 73 in Var. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 49 burglaries and 96 acts of criminal damage.
They grade C, better than 26% of compared French towns and #40 of 63 in Var. 95% of 367 candidates passed the bac at Lycée Costebelle in 2025, a point below the expected rate given its pupils’ backgrounds. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Estimated advertised apartment rents are €17.95/m² a month, charges included. Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Carqueiranne grades D− for cost of living.
Commune in Var, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Carqueiranne is a commune of 9,408 people in the Métropole Toulon-Provence-Méditerranée. 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.