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3,227 people live in this town in Hérault, Occitanie.
People here tend to be in good health: after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 20% below expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. The weak point is cost of living: at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 8.2 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Jobs and pay trail most towns (C−): 0.4 jobs per working resident; 10.2% unemployment. It skews older: 30% of residents are 65 or over.
Figures: deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025) · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · employment, INSEE census 2023. Lignan-sur-Orb 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.
The one thing Lignan-sur-Orb does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Lignan-sur-Orb 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.
Lignan-sur-Orb has no overall grade because safety and schools aren’t graded here.
How TownRatings grades French towns →
The Culture ministry lists no building in Lignan-sur-Orb as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Ancienne abbaye Saint-Aphrodise, in Béziers, 3.2 mi away.
3.6% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Lignan-sur-Orb.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
Behind the median of €2,481/m²: 100 houses and apartments sold in Lignan-sur-Orb between July 2023 and June 2026. Among the homes sold, 99% were houses. House rents are put at about €9.96/m² a month.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €2,479/m² | 99 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Over-65s are 30% of the population. Children under 15 make up 16%, below both Hérault’s towns (17%) and compared French towns (17%). Graduates make up 28% of adults.
51% women, 49% men
About 95 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Hérault 52.0%, France 51.8%.
| Lignan-sur-Orb | Hérault median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 16% | 17% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 7.7% | 9.7% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 20% | 22% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 27% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 30% | 24% | 22% |
| No diploma | 17% | 17% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 29% | 23% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 21% | 19% | 18% |
| Higher education | 28% | 31% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Hérault median and France median: the median of compared communes
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
4 GPs practise in Lignan-sur-Orb. Women in Hérault live to 86.3 on average and men to 80.6 (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 across France. 281 deaths locally between 2016 and 2025, where France’s rates at each age predict 350: 20% below.
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 · Note: TownRatings models the care-home adjustment; it is not an official figure.
No commute at all: 4.5% of working residents in Lignan-sur-Orb at the census. Unemployment stood at 10.2%, about level with compared French towns (10.1%) and below Hérault’s towns (11.8%).
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Violence against people ran at 2.2 per 1,000 residents a year and the graded property crimes at 9.3 (2023–2025 average). In 2025, 31 offenses were recorded in Lignan-sur-Orb. The commonest graded crime locally was criminal damage (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 · When family violence, other physical violence, sexual violence and theft from vehicles number five or fewer in a recent year, the figure is withheld, and the index uses the département’s average instead (30.8% of the index here). The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Heritage and other places to visit in and near Lignan-sur-Orb. Best known first.
Nothing in Lignan-sur-Orb is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
Wikidata has nobody with a French article born in Lignan-sur-Orb 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lignan-sur-Orb | 3,227 | — | — | D | — | B+ |
| Maraussan | 4,789 | 1.3 | C+ | B− | B+ | C |
| Thézan-lès-Béziers | 3,124 | 2.4 | A− | C+ | A | B |
| Cazouls-lès-Béziers | 5,261 | 3.6 | C+ | B+ | B | C+ |
| Béziers | 81,545 | 3.8 | D | C | D | C− |
| Boujan-sur-Libron | 3,619 | 3.9 | B− | D | A+ | C |
| Montady | 3,990 | 3.9 | — | C+ | — | B− |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Lignan-sur-Orb has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 10 burglaries and 16 acts of criminal damage.
Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns, so Lignan-sur-Orb grades D for cost of living.
Commune in Hérault, Occitanie
Lignan-sur-Orb is a commune of 3,227 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
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.