Hassocks railway station serves the village. There are regular train services to London and Brighton.
Hassocks Infant School is a maintained infant school for pupils aged 4 to 7. It currently caters for around 180 pupils. The school is centrally located in the village.
After leaving the Infant School children in the main go onto Windmills School in Dale Avenue which caters for years 3–6.
Secondary education for the village and surrounding areas is looked after by Downlands Community School.
A new sports hall and AstroTurf football pitch have recently been constructed at Downlands Community School.
There is a windmill being worked on by lots of local volunteers to try and get it back to working condition again as it was completely ruined. The windmill made flour for the first time in 100 years in October 2008.
Hassocks's twin towns are:
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Hideki Okochi
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Ryuji Akiba
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Takayuki Nakahara
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Ryang Yong-Gi
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Shingo Tomita
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Kodai Watanabe
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Slobodan Dubajić
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Susumu Watanabe
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Marcos Paulo Souza Ribeiro
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Hiroshi Hayano
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Shogo Kobara
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Jozef Gašpar
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Goce Sedloski
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Masaya Nishitani
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Mont-de-Marsan is at the confluence of two rivers, the Douze and the Midou, forming the river Midouze just in the centre of the city.
It has an area of , and its average altitude is ; at the city hall, the altitude is .
Mont-de-Marsan is surrounded by the "communes" Uchacq-et-Parentis, Saint-Avit, Mazerolles, Bretagne-de-Marsan, Saint-Pierre-du-Mont and Campet-et-Lamolère.
The climate of Mont-de-Marsan is Marine West Coast Climate (Köppen climate classification: Cfb), with mild winters and warm summers.
The average temperature for the year in Mont-de-Marsan is 13.5 °C (56.3 °F). The warmest month, on average, is July with an average temperature of 21.4 °C (70.5 °F). The coolest month on average is January, with an average temperature of 6.2 °C (43.2 °F).
The average amount of precipitation for the year in Mont-de-Marsan is . The month with the most precipitation on average is October with of precipitation. The month with the least precipitation on average is August with an average of .
The inhabitants of Mont-de-Marsan are known, in French, as "Montois" (women: "Montoises").
With a population of 31,009, Mont-de-Marsan has a population density of inhabitants/km.
Evolution of the population in Mont-de-Marsan
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Mont-de-Marsan is the "prefecture" of the Landes department since 1790. It is also the capital of the "arrondissement" of Mont-de-Marsan and the administrative centre () of two "cantons":
Mont-de-Marsan is twinned with:
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