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People aged 65 and over make up 36% of residents. Home to 1,171 people, this town lies in Haute-Vienne, Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
Cost of living is its strong suit — at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 2.9 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. The local economy is weaker than most: 0.5 jobs per working resident; 13.8% unemployment. Walkability is weaker too (C−). 18% of homes here are second homes.
Figures: prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · employment and commuting, INSEE census 2023 · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025. Ladignac-le-Long 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 Ladignac-le-Long 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.
Ladignac-le-Long has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents.
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The 3 things Ladignac-le-Long does most differently from other towns.
Ladignac-le-Long 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 12th century; the first monument here was protected in 1910.
21% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Ladignac-le-Long has one historic monument; beside it, the nearest classé monuments in other towns, within 15.5 mi.
Église Saint-Aignan: Photo: Fourgeaudg · CC BY-SA 3.0
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Ladignac-le-Long.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
60 sales of houses and apartments in Ladignac-le-Long, from July 2023 to June 2026, give the median of €1,010/m². House rents are put at about €7.86/m² a month.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €1,010/m² | 60 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
13% of residents are children under 15. People 65 and over make up 36% of the town, above Haute-Vienne’s towns (27%) and compared French towns (22%) alike. Graduates make up nearly a quarter of adults.
52% women, 48% men
About 92 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Haute-Vienne 52.5%, France 51.8%. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
| Ladignac-le-Long | Haute-Vienne median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 13% | 16% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 5.9% | 9.2% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 17% | 20% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 28% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 36% | 27% | 22% |
| No diploma | 19% | 17% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 31% | 27% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 21% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 23% | 30% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Haute-Vienne median and France median: the median of compared communes
Unemployment stands at 13.8%. At the census, 7.3% went to work on foot, by bike or by public transport, near Haute-Vienne’s towns (7.3%) and lower than 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.
The nearest emergency department to Ladignac-le-Long is Centre hospitalier Jacques Boutard St Yrieix, 7 mi away. Its care home for older people (72 places) counts its residents as Ladignac-le-Long’s; allowing for it, deaths were 16% below expected. 296 deaths locally between 2016 and 2025, where France’s rates at each age predict 271: 9% above. Also worth knowing: women in Haute-Vienne live to 84.4 on average and men to 79.8 (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 · That adjustment for care homes is a model of TownRatings’ own, not official data. A less sure grade: it could be anywhere from C+ to A−.
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
The protected list starts in the 12th century. Among the classé monuments in Ladignac-le-Long is Église Saint-Aignan.
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
Criminal damage topped the graded crimes in Ladignac-le-Long (2025). On average over 2023–2025, every 1,000 residents saw 4.9 violent offenses and 8.2 graded property crimes a year. All told, Ladignac-le-Long had 9 recorded offenses in 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 · Small counts of family violence, other physical violence, sexual violence, burglary and vehicle theft go unpublished (five or fewer in at least one of the last three years); the département’s average stands in, 58.7% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
One notable person was born in Ladignac-le-Long.
Commune in Haute-Vienne, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Ladignac-le-Long is a commune of 1,171 people in the Communauté de communes du Pays de Saint-Yrieix. 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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ladignac-le-Long | 1,171 | — | — | A+ | — | B |
| Nexon | 2,548 | 6.9 | — | B+ | — | B |
| Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche | 6,830 | 7.1 | A− | A | B | C |
| Bosmie-l'Aiguille | 2,667 | 13 | — | B+ | — | A |
| Aixe-sur-Vienne | 5,890 | 14 | A− | A | A | C+ |
| Condat-sur-Vienne | 5,281 | 15 | B | C+ | A | B |
| Thiviers Dordogne | 2,876 | 15 | A | A | B+ | C |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Ladignac-le-Long has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average.
Homes cost less than in most compared French towns: the median sale price from July 2023 to June 2026 was €1,010/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns too, so Ladignac-le-Long grades A+ for cost of living.
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.