Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
The town has 2,024 residents and lies in Deux-Sèvres, Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
Lezay’s strongest subject is cost of living: at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 2.9 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. The weak point is health: after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 2% below expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are on the low side: 1.2 jobs per working resident; 12.4% unemployment. School results trail most towns: brevet results 2 points below the expected rate.
Figures: prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025) · employment, INSEE census 2023 · brevet and bac results, Ministry of Education. Lezay 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 2 things Lezay does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Lezay 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.
Lezay has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents.
How TownRatings grades French towns →
The Culture ministry lists no building in Lezay as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Église Sainte-Soline, in Sainte-Soline, 2.7 mi away.
21% 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 Lezay.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
The median price, €994/m², comes from 77 sales of houses and apartments in Lezay from July 2023 to June 2026. Houses accounted for 99% of sales, apartments for the rest.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €993/m² | 76 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Children under 15 make up 14%, below Deux-Sèvres’ towns (16%) and compared French towns (17%) alike. The 15-to-24 age group makes up 6.9% of residents. Graduates make up just over a fifth of adults.
52% women, 48% men
About 91 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Deux-Sèvres 51.4%, France 51.8%. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
| Lezay | Deux-Sèvres median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 14% | 16% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 6.9% | 9.6% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 17% | 21% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 25% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 38% | 26% | 22% |
| No diploma | 28% | 20% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 28% | 29% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 16% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 22% | 25% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Deux-Sèvres median and France median: the median of compared communes
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
At birth, a girl in Deux-Sèvres can expect 85.3 years and a boy 79.4 (2025); across France, 85.9 and 80.3. Lezay has 7 family doctors. Ages and care homes taken into account, deaths in Lezay come to 98 per 100 predicted. France’s death rates at each age would predict 417 deaths locally from 2016 to 2025; there were 520, 25% more.
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 adjustment for care homes is TownRatings’ own modeling, not an official figure.
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
For the general bac, the closest lycée is 6.7 mi away.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Jean MonnetNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 57 | 86%−2 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
With 800 jobs for 650 working residents, Lezay draws people in from neighbouring communes. Recorded offenses here came to 27 in 2025. On average over 2023–2025, every 1,000 residents saw 8.7 violent offenses and 9.5 graded property crimes a year. Also worth knowing: among the graded crimes locally, the most frequent 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 · For other physical violence, sexual violence, burglary, vehicle theft and theft from vehicles, the count isn’t published when it’s small (five or fewer in a year of the last three), so the index uses the département’s average, 20.4% of the index here. With more than 10% of the index estimated that way, this Safety Grade is less sure than most. Crimes are counted in the commune where they happen, then divided by its residents, so a town that draws people in from around can look higher. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Half of residents lived on more than €22,850 a year per consumption unit, below Deux-Sèvres’ towns (€24,720) and compared French towns (€25,970) alike. 8.0% of Lezay’s working residents had no journey to work at the census.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Nothing in Lezay 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 Lezay 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lezay | 2,024 | — | — | A+ | B+ | C− |
| Melle | 5,752 | 6.9 | A | A | C+ | B− |
| Celles-sur-Belle | 3,829 | 10 | A | A | A+ | C |
| Rouillé Vienne | 2,533 | 11 | — | A+ | — | B |
| Valence-en-Poitou Vienne | 4,325 | 11 | A− | A | B+ | B− |
| Aigondigné | 4,710 | 12 | A+ | B+ | A+ | A− |
| Lusignan Vienne | 2,544 | 14 | A | A | B | B− |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
They grade C, better than 34% of compared French towns. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Homes cost less than in most compared French towns: the median sale price from July 2023 to June 2026 was €994/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns too, so Lezay grades A+ for cost of living.
Commune in Deux-Sèvres, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Lezay is a commune of 2,024 people in the Communauté de communes Mellois en Poitou. 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.