Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
With 1,271 residents, it is a town in Haut-Rhin, Grand Est.
Homes are affordable: A year’s estimated rent on a 70 m² apartment is 30% of the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Health lags: after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 6% below expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns.
Figures: prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025). Leymen 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.
Each subject compares Leymen 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.
Leymen has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents.
How TownRatings grades French towns →
Leymen 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 13th century; the first monument here was protected in 1923.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Leymen.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
France’s property-sale records don’t cover Alsace and Moselle, which keep their own land register, so the Cost Grade here uses rent alone.
Source: Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Leymen holds 150 jobs; 600 of its residents are in work, so 0.2 jobs each. 6.0% of people in the labour force have no job. At the census, 22.9% went to work on foot, by bike or by public transport, higher than both Haut-Rhin’s towns (15.2%) and compared French towns (13.4%).
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
Ages and care homes taken into account, deaths in Leymen come to 94 per 100 predicted. France’s death rates at each age would predict 104 deaths in the town from 2016 to 2025; there were 98, 6% fewer. The nearest emergency department to Leymen is Pole Public Saint Louis Ghrmsa, 6.6 mi away. Life expectancy at birth in Haut-Rhin is 85.5 years for women and 80.5 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 · TownRatings makes the care-home adjustment itself; it is a model, not an official statistic. A less sure grade: it could be anywhere from D to B+.
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
The protected list starts in the 13th century. Among the classé monuments in Leymen is Ruines du château de Landskron. Homes from before 1919 make up 9.7% of the total.
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
Degrees are held by just over two in five adults, above both Haut-Rhin’s towns (31%) and compared French towns (30%). Leymen has a median age of 47.9 years. The share of residents under 15 is 17%.
51% women, 49% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Haut-Rhin 51.5%, France 51.8%.
| Leymen | Haut-Rhin median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 17% | 16% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 6.4% | 10% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 23% | 24% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 31% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 23% | 22% | 22% |
| No diploma | 15% | 18% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 23% | 29% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 17% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 42% | 31% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Haut-Rhin median and France median: the median of compared communes
Heritage and other places to visit in and near Leymen. Best known first.
Leymen has one historic monument; beside it, the nearest classé monuments in other towns, within 15.5 mi.
Ruines du château de Landskron: Photo: Tharsice Demand ( Photo-td ) · CC BY-SA 2.5
Wikidata has nobody with a French article born in Leymen 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Leymen | 1,271 | — | — | A | — | C |
| Hégenheim | 3,410 | 4.9 | A | B− | B | B |
| Hésingue | 2,972 | 5.6 | A+ | B | A | B |
| Saint-Louis | 22,805 | 7.2 | B | B | C− | C+ |
| Blotzheim | 5,282 | 7.3 | A | B | B+ | C |
| Huningue | 7,487 | 7.9 | B+ | B | C | C+ |
| Village-Neuf | 4,709 | 8.4 | A− | B+ | A− | D |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Leymen has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. Recorded figures: an average of 4.4 recorded violent incidents and 8.7 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Commune in Haut-Rhin, Grand Est
Leymen is a commune of 1,271 people in the Communauté d'agglomération Saint-Louis Agglomération. 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.