Rougiers 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 8.4 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Its strongest is health (B): after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 14% 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 Rougiers 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.
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Who lives here
Rougiers has fewer older residents than Var’s towns or compared French towns: 19% are 65 or over
17% of residents are children under 15. The 15-to-24 age group: 11%, higher than Var’s towns (8.8%) and near compared French towns (11%). Half of Rougiers is older than 43.3, half younger.
43.3median age
RougiersVar medianFrance median
Ages · share of residents
11%
Under 1515–2425–4445–6465+
Highest diploma · residents 15 and older who have left education
No diploma17%
CAP or BEP26%
Baccalauréat21%
Higher education31%
Women and men · all residents
49% women, 51% men
WomenFrance medianMen
About 105 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Var 51.4%, France 51.8%.
INSEE, census 2023 · Var median and France median: the median of compared communes
History
Rougiers keeps more of its old housing than Var’s towns or compared French towns: 18% built before 1919
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
On the Culture ministry’s list, Rougiers counts 2 historic monuments: 1 classé at the top level of protection and 1 inscrit at the second. Among the classé monuments here is Village (vestiges de l'ancien) et château (vestiges). The protected list starts in the 12th century.
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
HealthHealth B
Allowing for age and care homes, Rougiers sees 86 deaths per 100 expected, against 92 in Var’s towns and 88 in compared French towns
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
Average lifespans in Var: 86 years for women, 80.3 for men (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 nationally. From 2016 to 2025, 133 residents of Rougiers died, against 155 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 14% fewer. The nearest emergency department to Rougiers is Centre hospitalier de Brignoles Jean Marcel, 10.8 mi away.
−14%deaths against expected, after care homesBHealth Grade
Deaths per 100 expected · 2016–2025
Raw86
Adjusted86
Median town88
Expected100
0
GPs in Rougiers · 2.8 GP consultations a year per resident within reach (APL)
10.8 mi
to the nearest emergency department, Centre hospitalier de Brignoles Jean Marcel
10.8 mi
to the nearest maternity unit, Centre hospitalier de Brignoles Jean Marcel
86 · 80.3
years of life expectancy at birth, women · men, Var, 2025 (provisional) · France 85.9 · 80.3
Fewer commuters in Rougiers walk, cycle or take the bus or train than in Var’s towns or compared French towns: 7.1%
Per resident in work, Rougiers counts 0.3 jobs (200 jobs, 800 workers). 9.6% of the labour force were unemployed, below both Var’s towns (10.9%) and compared French towns (10.1%). Bus, tram or train carried 2.3% of working residents in Rougiers to work at the census.
7%walk, cycle or take transit
How working residents got to work · census 2023
Driving90%
On foot4%
Public transport2%
Bicycle1%
Motorbike or scooter1%
200
jobs based in Rougiers, 0.3 per working resident
9.6%
unemployment rate, ages 15 to 64 in the labor force · median of compared French towns 10.1%
€26,540
median annual income per consumption unit, 2023 · median of compared French towns €25,970
2%
worked without traveling (at or from home)
B−
Walkability: better than 47% of compared French towns
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Questions about Rougiers
Is Rougiers safe?
Rougiers has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. Recorded figures: an average of 7 recorded violent incidents and 7.5 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Is Rougiers expensive to live in?
Estimated advertised apartment rents are €13.15/m² a month, charges included. Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Rougiers grades C− for cost of living.
About Rougiers
Commune in Var, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Rougiers is a commune of 1,697 people in the Communauté d'agglomération de la Provence Verte. 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
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.
