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A town of 1,306 in Vaucluse, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur.
Villes-sur-Auzon’s best grade is for walkability: 85% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 7% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. Homes sell for a median €2,667/m²: 70 m² comes to 7.9 years of the median income per consumption unit in the Communauté de communes Ventoux Sud. Work and incomes lag: 0.4 jobs per working resident; 11.7% unemployment. Holiday and other second homes account for nearly a fifth of homes.
Figures: amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · commuting and employment, INSEE census 2023 · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi. Villes-sur-Auzon 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.
The one thing Villes-sur-Auzon does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Villes-sur-Auzon 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.
Villes-sur-Auzon has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents.
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The Culture ministry lists no building in Villes-sur-Auzon as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Gisement mésolithique dit de Gramari, in Méthamis, 2.7 mi away.
19% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Villes-sur-Auzon.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
69 sales of houses and apartments in Villes-sur-Auzon, from July 2023 to June 2026, give the median of €2,667/m². Houses accounted for 94% of sales, apartments for the rest. From July 2023 to June 2026, 69 homes were sold here.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €2,760/m² | 65 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
People 65 and over make up 27% of the town, above both Vaucluse’s towns (23%) and compared French towns (22%). Graduates make up 26% of adults. Villes-sur-Auzon has a median age of 51.2 years.
51% women, 49% men
About 96 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Vaucluse 51.9%, France 51.8%.
| Villes-sur-Auzon | Vaucluse median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 13% | 17% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 9.6% | 9.7% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 20% | 23% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 30% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 27% | 23% | 22% |
| No diploma | 20% | 19% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 27% | 26% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 22% | 19% | 18% |
| Higher education | 26% | 30% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Vaucluse median and France median: the median of compared communes
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
122 deaths in Villes-sur-Auzon between 2016 and 2025, where France’s rates at each age predict 135: 10% below. The nearest emergency department to Villes-sur-Auzon is Centre hospitalier de Carpentras, 10.3 mi away. Life expectancy at birth in Vaucluse is 85.7 years for women and 80.3 for men (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 across France. Also worth knowing: this Vaucluse town has one family doctor.
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 · Care-home places are adjusted for by TownRatings, using a model rather than an official statistic. A less sure grade: it could be anywhere from C− to A−.
6.8% of commuters walked, cycled or took the bus or train at the census, below both Vaucluse’s towns (8.0%) and compared French towns (13.4%). Unemployment runs at 11.7%.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
The yearly rates for 2023–2025: 4.7 violent offenses and 10.7 graded property crimes per 1,000 residents. The police record for Villes-sur-Auzon lists 5 offenses in 2025. Of the graded crimes here, criminal damage came up most often (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 · When family violence, other physical violence, burglary, vehicle theft and theft from vehicles number five or fewer in a recent year, the figure is withheld, and the index uses the département’s average instead (78.4% of the index here). The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Heritage, other places to visit and museums in and near Villes-sur-Auzon. Best known first.
Nothing in Villes-sur-Auzon is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
Wikidata places 1 person here, but the articles don’t both confirm Villes-sur-Auzon as the birthplace, so nobody is listed.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Villes-sur-Auzon | 1,306 | — | — | C | — | C+ |
| Bédoin | 3,106 | 5 | — | D | — | A− |
| Mazan | 6,285 | 5.6 | B− | C | A | B− |
| Caromb | 3,479 | 7.2 | — | C | — | B+ |
| Carpentras | 31,619 | 9.2 | D | C+ | C− | C |
| Malaucène | 2,758 | 9.7 | C− | C | B− | C− |
| Pernes-les-Fontaines | 10,504 | 10 | C− | D | B+ | C+ |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Villes-sur-Auzon has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average.
Prices are close to the median of compared French towns: the median sale price from July 2023 to June 2026 was €2,667/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns, so Villes-sur-Auzon grades C for cost of living.
Commune in Vaucluse, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Villes-sur-Auzon is a commune of 1,306 people in the Communauté de communes Ventoux Sud. 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 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.