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A town of 2,306 in Landes, Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
Léon has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents. Its weakest subject is cost of living (D): at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 10.7 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Its strongest is health (B+): after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 20% below expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas.
The 3 things Léon does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Léon 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.
How TownRatings grades French towns →
The Culture ministry lists no building in Léon as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Église Saint-Martin, in Lévignacq, 11.2 mi away.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Léon.
Léon sits below both Landes’ towns (8.9%) and compared French towns (11%) on this measure. Over-65s are 35% of the population.
52% women, 48% men
About 93 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Landes 51.9%, France 51.8%. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
| Léon | Landes median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 11% | 15% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 5.3% | 8.9% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 18% | 21% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 31% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 35% | 28% | 22% |
| No diploma | 14% | 16% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 28% | 27% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 20% | 20% | 18% |
| Higher education | 33% | 28% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Landes median and France median: the median of compared communes
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
That puts Léon above both Landes’ towns (€3,172/m²) and compared French towns (€2,430/m²).
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €4,005/m² | 94 |
| Apartments | €4,000/m² | 49 |
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.
On this, Léon is below both Landes’ towns (88) and compared French towns (88). From 2016 to 2025, 230 residents of Léon died, against 286 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 20% fewer. The care-home adjustment is a TownRatings modeling step, not an official statistic.
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
In the comparison, Léon comes above both Landes’ towns (€25,750) and compared French towns (€25,970). Unemployment stands at 12.0%. Léon has 650 jobs for 850 working residents, 0.8 per worker.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Police and gendarmerie recorded 27 offenses in the graded categories in Léon in 2025. For other physical violence, sexual violence, burglary, vehicle theft and theft from vehicles, 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, 34.2% of the index 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
Nothing in Léon is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
One notable person was born in Léon.
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more. The map uses IGN’s commune boundaries. See them on the map →
Léon has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. Recorded figures: an average of 2.9 recorded violent incidents and 8.5 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Estimated advertised apartment rents are €12.96/m² a month, charges included. Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Léon grades D for cost of living.
Commune in Landes, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Léon is a commune of 2,306 people in the Communauté de communes Côte Landes Nature. 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.