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Home to 2,606 people, this town lies in Haute-Vienne, Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
Homes are affordable (A−): at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 5.3 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Most journeys need a car (D): 30% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 4% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. Homes sell for a median €1,878/m².
Figures: employment and commuting, INSEE census 2023 · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025. Saint-Just-le-Martel has no overall grade because safety and schools aren’t graded here.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas.
Each subject compares Saint-Just-le-Martel 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-Just-le-Martel has no overall grade because safety and schools aren’t graded here.
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The 2 things Saint-Just-le-Martel does most differently from other towns.
The Culture ministry lists 1 historic monument in Saint-Just-le-Martel, none of them classé, France’s highest protection.
The oldest protected part dates from the 13th century; the first monument here was protected in 1986.
Saint-Just-le-Martel has one historic monument; beside it, the nearest classé monuments in other towns, within 15.5 mi.
Église Saint-Just: Photo: Fourgeaudg · CC BY-SA 3.0
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Saint-Just-le-Martel.
Median disposable income is €28,640 a year for each consumption unit. At the census, 3.8% went to work on foot, by bike or by public transport, below Haute-Vienne’s towns (7.3%) and compared French towns (13.4%) alike.
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 market in Saint-Just-le-Martel: 60 sales of houses and apartments between July 2023 and June 2026.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €1,878/m² | 60 |
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.
France’s death rates at each age would predict 193 deaths in Saint-Just-le-Martel from 2016 to 2025; there were 147, 24% fewer. In Haute-Vienne, women can expect to live 84.4 years and men 79.8 (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 across France. This Haute-Vienne 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 adjustment is a TownRatings modeling step, not an official statistic.
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
Protection here reaches back to the 13th century. A tenth of its homes were built before 1919, about level with Haute-Vienne’s towns (9.8%) and above compared French towns (7.4%).
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
17% are under 15, about level with compared French towns (17%) and above Haute-Vienne’s towns (16%). Those 65 and older account for a fifth of residents. People aged 15 to 24 make up 11% of the town.
51% women, 49% men
About 96 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Haute-Vienne 52.5%, France 51.8%.
| Saint-Just-le-Martel | Haute-Vienne median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 17% | 16% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 11% | 9.2% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 21% | 20% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 31% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 20% | 27% | 22% |
| No diploma | 13% | 17% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 24% | 27% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 19% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 41% | 30% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Haute-Vienne median and France median: the median of compared communes
12 offenses were reported in Saint-Just-le-Martel during 2025. Violence against people averaged 2.2 per 1,000 residents a year over 2023–2025; graded property crimes averaged 5.1. In 2025, criminal damage led the graded crimes here.
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, vehicle theft and theft from vehicles go unpublished (five or fewer in at least one of the last three years); the département’s average stands in, 49.1% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Heritage and museums in and near Saint-Just-le-Martel. Best known first.
Wikidata has nobody with a French article born in Saint-Just-le-Martel yet.
Commune in Haute-Vienne, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Saint-Just-le-Martel is a commune of 2,606 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
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-Just-le-Martel | 2,606 | — | — | A− | — | A− |
| Saint-Priest-Taurion | 2,901 | 2.7 | B+ | A | A+ | C− |
| Le Palais-sur-Vienne | 5,775 | 3.2 | B | B | A | B+ |
| Panazol | 11,342 | 4.2 | A | B | A | A+ |
| Feytiat | 6,176 | 4.5 | A− | C+ | A | B+ |
| Rilhac-Rancon | 4,805 | 4.6 | B | B+ | A+ | C+ |
| Saint-Léonard-de-Noblat | 4,366 | 5.2 | A− | A | A− | C− |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Saint-Just-le-Martel has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 5 burglaries and 7 acts of criminal damage.
Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Saint-Just-le-Martel 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 9, 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.