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Some 2,204 people live in this town, in Haute-Vienne, Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
Buying a home costs less than in most towns: at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 4.8 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Its weakest is walkability — 29% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 3% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. Elsewhere it is close to typical: B for health and B for jobs & income. Homes sell for a median €1,720/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 · deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025). Saint-Gence 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 3 things Saint-Gence does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Saint-Gence 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.
Saint-Gence has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents.
How TownRatings grades French towns →
Saint-Gence has 3 historic monuments on the Culture ministry’s list, none at the highest level (classé).
The oldest protected part dates from prehistory; the first monument here was protected in 1966.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Saint-Gence.
3.4% of commuters walked, cycled or took the bus or train at the census, lower than both Haute-Vienne’s towns (7.3%) and compared French towns (13.4%). Of those in the labour force, 5.4% are unemployed. 200 jobs are based in Saint-Gence, for 1,050 working residents (0.2 per worker). After tax and benefits, the median income is €27,720 a year per consumption unit.
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.
The estimated advertised rent is €10.01/m² a month, near Haute-Vienne’s towns (€10.01/m²) and lower than compared French towns (€12.41/m²). A house rents for an estimated €9.36/m² a month. The market in Saint-Gence: 53 sales of houses and apartments between July 2023 and June 2026.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €1,720/m² | 53 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
3 GPs practise in Saint-Gence. Adjusted for age and care homes, Saint-Gence records 83 deaths per 100 expected, about level with Haute-Vienne’s towns (84) and below compared French towns (88). France’s death rates at each age would predict 147 deaths in the town from 2016 to 2025; there were 122, 17% fewer. Also worth knowing: the nearest emergency department to Saint-Gence is Centre hospitalier Universitaire Dupuytren Limoges, 8.4 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 · 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 oldest protected building goes back to prehistory. Just over a tenth of its homes were built before 1919, above both Haute-Vienne’s towns (9.8%) and compared French towns (7.4%).
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
Retirement age and beyond: a fifth of residents are 65 or older. Degrees are held by 37% of adults, above both Haute-Vienne’s towns (30%) and compared French towns (30%). At 44.8, the median resident of Saint-Gence sits in the middle of the age range.
49% women, 51% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Haute-Vienne 52.5%, France 51.8%.
| Saint-Gence | Haute-Vienne median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 19% | 16% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 9.2% | 9.2% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 22% | 20% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 30% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 20% | 27% | 22% |
| No diploma | 12% | 17% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 25% | 27% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 22% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 37% | 30% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Haute-Vienne median and France median: the median of compared communes
On average over 2023–2025, every 1,000 residents saw 3.1 violent offenses and 5.4 graded property crimes a year. Saint-Gence’s tally for 2025: 14 recorded offenses. In 2025, criminal damage led the graded crimes in the town.
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 other physical violence, sexual violence, burglary, vehicle theft and theft from vehicles, the count isn’t published when it’s small (five or fewer in a year of the last three), so the index uses the département’s average, 49.8% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Heritage and museums in and near Saint-Gence. Best known first.
Saint-Gence has 3 historic monuments on the Culture ministry’s list, none at the highest level (classé).
Église Saint-Gentien: Photo: Alex Hudghton · CC BY-SA 4.0
Wikidata has nobody with a French article born in Saint-Gence 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Gence | 2,204 | — | — | B+ | — | B |
| Verneuil-sur-Vienne | 4,903 | 4.6 | A+ | B | A+ | A− |
| Couzeix | 10,195 | 5.1 | A− | C+ | A | B+ |
| Oradour-sur-Glane | 2,550 | 5.5 | — | A− | — | B+ |
| Limoges | 129,937 | 7.5 | C | B+ | D | B− |
| Aixe-sur-Vienne | 5,890 | 7.9 | A− | A | A | C+ |
| Isle | 7,995 | 8.2 | A− | B− | A− | A− |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Saint-Gence has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average.
Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Saint-Gence grades B+ for cost of living.
Commune in Haute-Vienne, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Saint-Gence is a commune of 2,204 people in the Communauté urbaine Limoges Métropole. 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 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.
