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1,719 people call this town in Landes, Nouvelle-Aquitaine home.
The local economy does well: 0.9 jobs per working resident; 10.6% unemployment. Homes sell for a median €3,157/m²: 70 m² comes to 8.4 years of the median income per consumption unit in the Communauté de communes Côte Landes Nature. Health is its weak spot (D): after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 10% above expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. Few people walk, cycle or take the bus to work: 46% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 9% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work.
Figures: employment and commuting, INSEE census 2023 · deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025) · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025. Lit-et-Mixe 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 2 things Lit-et-Mixe does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Lit-et-Mixe 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.
Lit-et-Mixe has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents.
How TownRatings grades French towns →
The Culture ministry lists no building in Lit-et-Mixe as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Monument aux morts de la guerre 1914-1918, in Uza, 3.1 mi away.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Lit-et-Mixe.
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
From 2016 to 2025, 323 residents of Lit-et-Mixe died, against 245 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 32% more. The nearest emergency department to Lit-et-Mixe is Ch Dax Antenne Saisonniere Smur Mimizan, 9.7 mi away. Life expectancy in Landes: 85.5 years for women and 80.3 for men (2025); France averages 85.9 and 80.3. For a family doctor, residents of Lit-et-Mixe can choose among 2 GPs.
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.
Young adults of 15 to 24 are 6.3% of residents, below Landes’ towns (8.9%) and compared French towns (11%) alike. 37% of residents have reached 65. Among adults, 25% have a degree.
52% women, 48% men
About 92 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.
| Lit-et-Mixe | Landes median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 9.6% | 15% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 6.3% | 8.9% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 17% | 21% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 30% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 37% | 28% | 22% |
| No diploma | 19% | 16% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 30% | 27% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 21% | 20% | 18% |
| Higher education | 25% | 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.
Behind the median of €3,157/m²: 121 houses and apartments sold in Lit-et-Mixe between July 2023 and June 2026. The split in the town: €3,234/m² for houses, €3,075/m² for apartments. The sales split: 64% houses, the rest apartments.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €3,234/m² | 78 |
| Apartments | €3,075/m² | 43 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
At the census, 6.6% of working residents in Lit-et-Mixe didn’t travel to work at all. Unemployment stood at 10.6%, about level with Landes’ towns (11.1%) and above compared French towns (10.1%).
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
The graded crime recorded most in Lit-et-Mixe was burglary (2025). Graded property crimes ran at 13 per 1,000 residents a year, and violence against people at 3.1 (2023–2025 average). 2025 saw 19 offenses recorded locally.
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 and vehicle theft go unpublished (five or fewer in at least one of the last three years); the département’s average stands in, 27.8% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Museums and heritage in and near Lit-et-Mixe. Best known first.
Nothing in Lit-et-Mixe 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 Lit-et-Mixe 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lit-et-Mixe | 1,719 | — | — | C | — | D |
| Castets | 2,516 | 12 | — | C+ | — | C− |
| Mimizan | 7,673 | 12 | C− | D | C− | B− |
| Morcenx-la-Nouvelle | 5,022 | 17 | C | B− | B− | D |
| Magescq | 2,698 | 17 | B− | C | A | B− |
| Rion-des-Landes | 3,142 | 18 | — | C+ | — | B |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Lit-et-Mixe has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 7 burglaries and 7 acts of criminal damage.
Homes cost more than in most compared French towns: the median sale price from July 2023 to June 2026 was €3,157/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Lit-et-Mixe grades C for cost of living.
Commune in Landes, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Lit-et-Mixe is a commune of 1,719 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 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.