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The town has 1,486 residents and lies in Hérault, Occitanie.
Lieuran-lès-Béziers’s lowest grade is for cost of living — at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 8 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Jobs & income is weaker too: 0.2 jobs per working resident; 8.4% unemployment.
Figures: prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · employment, INSEE census 2023. Lieuran-lès-Béziers 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 Lieuran-lès-Béziers 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.
Lieuran-lès-Béziers has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents.
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The one thing Lieuran-lès-Béziers does most differently from other towns.
Lieuran-lès-Béziers has 1 historic monument on the Culture ministry’s list, none at the highest level (classé).
The oldest protected part dates from the 16th century; the first monument here was protected in 1997.
13% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Lieuran-lès-Béziers has one historic monument; beside it, the nearest classé monuments in other towns, within 15.5 mi.
Château de Ribaute: Photo: Sdo216 · CC BY-SA 4.0
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Lieuran-lès-Béziers.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
Behind the median of €2,402/m²: 68 houses and apartments sold in Lieuran-lès-Béziers between July 2023 and June 2026. Of the homes sold, 97% were houses.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €2,409/m² | 66 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Just over a quarter of adults hold a degree. People 65 and over make up 27% of the town, above both Hérault’s towns (24%) and compared French towns (22%). At 48.8, the median resident of Lieuran-lès-Béziers sits in the middle of the age range.
51% women, 49% men
About 96 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Hérault 52.0%, France 51.8%.
| Lieuran-lès-Béziers | Hérault median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 15% | 17% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 8.2% | 9.7% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 19% | 22% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 31% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 27% | 24% | 22% |
| No diploma | 18% | 17% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 29% | 23% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 19% | 19% | 18% |
| Higher education | 26% | 31% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Hérault median and France median: the median of compared communes
Unemployment stood at 8.4%, below both Hérault’s towns (11.8%) and compared French towns (10.1%). No commute at all: 2.4% of working residents in Lieuran-lès-Béziers at the census.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
The oldest protected building goes back to the 16th century. Lieuran-lès-Béziers 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
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
In Hérault, women can expect to live 86.3 years and men 80.6 (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 across France. From 2016 to 2025, 115 residents of Lieuran-lès-Béziers died, against 132 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 13% fewer. One GP practises here.
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 · This figure includes a care-home adjustment that TownRatings models; no official statistic exists. A less sure grade: it could be anywhere from C− to A−.
Heritage in and near Lieuran-lès-Béziers. Best known first.
Wikidata has nobody with a French article born in Lieuran-lès-Béziers yet.
Commune in Hérault, Occitanie
Lieuran-lès-Béziers is a commune of 1,486 people in the Communauté d'agglomération de Béziers-Méditerranée. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lieuran-lès-Béziers | 1,486 | — | — | C− | — | B− |
| Boujan-sur-Libron | 3,619 | 3.3 | B− | D | A+ | C |
| Thézan-lès-Béziers | 3,124 | 3.3 | A− | C+ | A | B |
| Servian | 5,517 | 3.6 | D | C− | C+ | C− |
| Magalas | 3,582 | 3.8 | C | C | B | B− |
| Lignan-sur-Orb | 3,227 | 4 | — | D | — | B+ |
| Murviel-lès-Béziers | 3,000 | 4.9 | B+ | C+ | B+ | C+ |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Lieuran-lès-Béziers has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. Recorded figures: an average of 4.8 recorded violent incidents and 13.8 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Prices are close to the median of compared French towns: the median sale price from July 2023 to June 2026 was €2,402/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns, so Lieuran-lès-Béziers grades C− 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.