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A town of 5,981 in Vaucluse, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur.
Aubignan grades B+ overall: better than 71% of compared French towns, and #2 of 38 in Vaucluse. Its weakest subject is jobs & income (D): 0.3 jobs per working resident; 11.5% unemployment. At the median price of €2,706/m², a 70 m² home costs 8 times the median annual income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size) in the Communauté d'agglomération Ventoux-Comtat-Venaissin (COVE). Its strongest is schools (A): brevet results 4.4 points above the expected rate.
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 Aubignan does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Aubignan 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 2 historic monuments in Aubignan, none of them classé, France’s highest protection.
The oldest protected part dates from the 11th century; the first monument here was protected in 1970.
Louis Guichard, born in 1866, is the one person born in Aubignan before 1900 that Wikidata records.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Aubignan.
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
By results, schools here place #1 of 36 in Vaucluse. The closest collège is 2.8 mi off. For the general bac, the closest lycée is 3.3 mi away.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège François RaspailNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 123 | 89%+5 pts |
| Collège Marie Pila (Garçons) PrivateBest against expectations: 6 points above the expected rateCollège | Collège | 91 | 99%+6 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Police and gendarmerie recorded 87 offenses in Aubignan in 2025. Graded property crimes ran at 9.6 per 1,000 residents a year, and violence against people at 4.4 (2023–2025 average). The commonest graded crime in the town was criminal damage (2025).
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 · Small counts of other physical violence, sexual violence and theft from vehicles go unpublished (five or fewer in at least one of the last three years); the département’s average stands in, 9.1% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
11.5% of the labour force were unemployed, near Vaucluse’s towns (11.1%) and higher than compared French towns (10.1%). No commute at all: 3.4% of working residents in Aubignan at the census. The typical income here, after tax and benefits, is €25,090 a year per consumption unit.
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.
209 sales of houses and apartments in Aubignan, from July 2023 to June 2026, give the median of €2,706/m². The sales split: 87% houses, the rest apartments.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €2,852/m² | 181 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
Women in Vaucluse live to 85.7 on average and men to 80.3 (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 across France. From 2016 to 2025, 500 residents of Aubignan died, against 560 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 11% fewer. The nearest emergency department to Aubignan is Centre hospitalier de Carpentras, 3.5 mi away.
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 · The care-home step is TownRatings’ own calculation, not an official number.
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
Protection here reaches back to the 11th century. Homes from before 1919 make up 7.1% of the total, below Vaucluse’s towns (11%) and close to compared French towns (7.4%).
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
The 15-to-24 age group makes up 9.1% of residents. The age that splits Aubignan in two is 44.2. Degrees are held by 31% of adults.
51% women, 49% men
About 94 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Vaucluse 51.9%, France 51.8%.
| Aubignan | Vaucluse median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 19% | 17% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 9.1% | 9.7% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 23% | 23% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 26% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 23% | 23% | 22% |
| No diploma | 19% | 19% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 25% | 26% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 20% | 19% | 18% |
| Higher education | 31% | 30% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Vaucluse median and France median: the median of compared communes
Heritage in and near Aubignan. Best known first.
The list names few of Aubignan’s 2 monuments; beside them, the nearest classé monuments in other towns, within 15.5 mi.
Chapelle Saint-Sixte: Photo: Marianne Casamance · CC BY-SA 3.0
2 notable people were born in Aubignan.
Louis Guichard: Unknown 1910, Public domain
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aubignan | 5,981 | — | B+ | C | A | B+ |
| Carpentras | 31,619 | 3.1 | D | C+ | C− | C |
| Sarrians | 5,792 | 3.1 | B− | C | A− | B− |
| Caromb | 3,479 | 4 | — | C | — | B+ |
| Monteux | 13,301 | 4.7 | D | C− | C+ | C |
| Mazan | 6,285 | 5.6 | B− | C | A | B− |
| Jonquières | 5,201 | 6.3 | C | C− | A | C− |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
It grades A for safety, #7 of 38 in Vaucluse. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 22 burglaries and 33 acts of criminal damage.
They grade A, better than 94% of compared French towns and #1 of 36 in Vaucluse. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Homes cost more than in most compared French towns: the median sale price from July 2023 to June 2026 was €2,706/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns, so Aubignan grades C for cost of living.
Commune in Vaucluse, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Aubignan is a commune of 5,981 people in the Communauté d'agglomération Ventoux-Comtat-Venaissin (COVE). 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.
