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A town of 1,208 in Gironde, Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
Lugos has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents. Its weakest subject is walkability (D): 0% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 4% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. Its strongest is health (B): after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 15% below expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas.
The one thing Lugos does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Lugos 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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Lugos has 1 historic monument on the Culture ministry’s list: 1 classé, the highest protection, and 0 inscrit, the second level.
The oldest protected part dates from the 10th century; the first monument here was protected in 1957.
12% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Lugos.
Unemployment runs at 6.9%. 3.7% of commuters walked, cycled or took the bus or train at the census, lower than both Gironde’s towns (11.1%) and compared French towns (13.4%). For its 600 residents in work, Lugos has 100 jobs: 0.2 each.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Children under 15 make up 20%, above both Gironde’s towns (18%) and compared French towns (17%). Aged 15 to 24: nearly one in ten residents. Graduates make up 31% of adults.
49% women, 51% men
About 105 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Gironde 51.8%, France 51.8%.
| Lugos | Gironde median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 20% | 18% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 8.8% | 10% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 28% | 24% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 28% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 16% | 20% | 22% |
| No diploma | 9.9% | 14% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 32% | 26% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 23% | 19% | 18% |
| Higher education | 31% | 34% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Gironde median and France median: the median of compared communes
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
Lugos recorded 28 home sales from July 2023 to June 2026.
Source: Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
Among the classé monuments in Lugos is Église du Vieux Lugo. The earliest of these monuments dates from the 10th century. 12% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
France’s death rates at each age would predict 73 deaths in Lugos from 2016 to 2025; there were 62, 15% fewer. The nearest emergency department to Lugos is Centre hospitalier D Arcachon, 13.9 mi away. 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.
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. A less sure grade: it could be anywhere from C− to A.
Lugos has one historic monument; beside it, the nearest classé monuments in other towns, within 15.5 mi.
Église du Vieux Lugo: Photo: Erics · CC BY-SA 3.0
Wikidata has nobody with a French article born in Lugos yet.
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Lugos has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. Recorded figures: an average of 5.7 recorded violent incidents and 7.3 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Commune in Gironde, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Lugos is a commune of 1,208 people in the Communauté de communes du Val de l'Eyre. 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) · 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.