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The town has 1,216 residents and lies in Gironde, Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
Homes are affordable: at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 4.4 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Residents’ health trails most towns: after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 1% above expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. It lags on jobs & income as well: 1.1 jobs per working resident; 11.5% unemployment. People aged 65 and over make up nearly two in five residents.
Grignols 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 Grignols does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Grignols 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.
Grignols 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 Grignols as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Église Saint-Laurent de Birac, in Birac, 5.2 mi away.
26% 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 Grignols.
Degrees are held by 16% of adults, below both Gironde’s towns (34%) and compared French towns (30%). The share aged 15 to 24 is 7.2%. Grignols has a median age of 56.5.
52% women, 48% men
About 91 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Gironde 51.8%, France 51.8%. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
| Grignols | Gironde median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 12% | 18% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 7.2% | 10% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 19% | 24% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 24% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 39% | 20% | 22% |
| No diploma | 32% | 14% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 29% | 26% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 16% | 19% | 18% |
| Higher education | 16% | 34% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Gironde median and France median: the median of compared communes
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
Life expectancy at birth in Gironde is 86.4 years for women and 81.3 for men (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 across France. Ages and care homes taken into account, deaths in Grignols come to 101 per 100 predicted. France’s death rates at each age would predict 327 deaths here from 2016 to 2025; there were 429, 31% more. Also worth knowing: the nearest emergency department to Grignols is Centre hospitalier de Marmande Chic Marmande Tonneins, 12.6 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 adjustment for care homes is TownRatings’ own modeling, not an official figure.
Unemployment stood at 11.5%, above Gironde’s towns (9.7%) and compared French towns (10.1%) alike. The census found 9.2% of commuters going to work on foot, by bike or by public transport.
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.
Advertised rents are estimated at €10.66/m² a month, below Gironde’s towns (€13.75/m²) and compared French towns (€12.41/m²) alike. Houses are advertised at an estimated €7.64/m² a month. From July 2023 to June 2026, 39 homes were sold in Grignols.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €1,469/m² | 38 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
In 2025, 14 offenses were recorded in Grignols. Each year (2023–2025 average), violence against people came to 6.9 per 1,000 residents and the graded property crimes to 9. The commonest graded crime here 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 · When other physical violence, sexual 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 (67.2% of the index here). The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Nothing in Grignols is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
One notable person was born in Grignols.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grignols | 1,216 | — | — | B | — | C− |
| Casteljaloux Lot-et-Garonne | 4,755 | 8.2 | C− | B | C− | C+ |
| Bazas | 4,854 | 9.3 | A− | B− | B− | B+ |
| Sainte-Bazeille Lot-et-Garonne | 3,171 | 12 | B | B+ | C+ | A− |
| Marmande Lot-et-Garonne | 17,328 | 13 | C+ | B− | D | B− |
| La Réole | 4,487 | 13 | C+ | B+ | D− | C |
| Langon | 7,674 | 15 | C | C+ | D− | B |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Grignols has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average.
Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns too, so Grignols grades B for cost of living.
Commune in Gironde, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Grignols is a commune of 1,216 people in the Communauté de communes du Bazadais. 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.