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1,001 people call this town in Haute-Vienne, Nouvelle-Aquitaine home.
Buying a home costs less than in most towns: at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 3.1 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Its weakest subject is walkability: 35% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 3% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. The local economy is weaker than most: 0.4 jobs per working resident; 8.0% unemployment. Homes change hands at a median €1,051/m².
Figures: prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · commuting and employment, INSEE census 2023. Linards 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 one thing Linards does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Linards 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.
Linards has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents.
How TownRatings grades French towns →
Linards has 1 historic monument on the Culture ministry’s list, none at the highest level (classé).
The oldest protected part dates from the 12th century; the first monument here was protected in 1926.
19% 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 Linards.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
A house rents for an estimated €7.17/m² a month. Linards recorded 45 home sales from July 2023 to June 2026.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €1,051/m² | 45 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
8.0% of the labour force were unemployed, below both Haute-Vienne’s towns (9.0%) and compared French towns (10.1%). At the census, 2.8% of commuters got to work without a car. The median disposable income is €24,430 a year per consumption unit.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
People 65 and over make up 27% of the town, about level with Haute-Vienne’s towns (27%) and above compared French towns (22%). Graduates make up nearly a quarter of adults. Ages in Linards split evenly at 50.5: half are older, half younger.
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Haute-Vienne 52.5%, France 51.8%.
| Linards | Haute-Vienne median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 15% | 16% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 7.1% | 9.2% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 20% | 20% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 30% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 27% | 27% | 22% |
| No diploma | 20% | 17% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 31% | 27% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 19% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 23% | 30% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Haute-Vienne median and France median: the median of compared communes
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
The nearest emergency department to Linards is Clinique Francois Chenieux, 14.4 mi away. France’s death rates at each age would predict 132 deaths locally from 2016 to 2025; there were 122, 8% fewer. Also worth knowing: at birth, a girl in Haute-Vienne can expect 84.4 years and a boy 79.8 (2025); across France, 85.9 and 80.3. The town has 2 family doctors.
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 D to B+.
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
Its heritage reaches back to the 12th century. Linards has 1 historic monument on the Culture ministry’s list, none at the highest level (classé).
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
Of the graded crimes in Linards, other physical violence came up most often (2025). Per 1,000 residents a year, there were 5.2 cases of violence against people and 5.6 graded property crimes (2023–2025 average).
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 family violence, sexual violence, burglary, vehicle theft and criminal damage, this figure isn’t published when it’s small (five or fewer in at least one of the last three years); the index uses the département’s average instead, 100.0% of the index here.
Linards has one historic monument; beside it, the nearest classé monuments in other towns, within 15.5 mi.
Église Saint-Martin: Photo: Bnico · CC BY-SA 3.0
Wikidata has nobody with a French article born in Linards 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linards | 1,001 | — | — | A+ | — | C+ |
| Saint-Léonard-de-Noblat | 4,366 | 9.6 | A− | A | A− | C− |
| Boisseuil | 3,010 | 11 | A+ | B− | A | A+ |
| Feytiat | 6,176 | 12 | A− | C+ | A | B+ |
| Saint-Just-le-Martel | 2,606 | 13 | — | A− | — | A− |
| Panazol | 11,342 | 14 | A | B | A | A+ |
| Saint-Priest-Taurion | 2,901 | 15 | B+ | A | A+ | C− |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Linards 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 Linards grades A+ for cost of living.
Commune in Haute-Vienne, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Linards is a commune of 1,001 people in the Communauté de communes Briance-Combade. 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.