Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Over-65s are 31% of the population. A town in Landes, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, home to 1,781 people.
Where it does best is health: after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 14% below expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. Cost of living is its weak spot: at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 9 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. The rest of its grades are middling: C+ for jobs & income and B− for walkability. Nearly half of its homes are second homes.
Figures: deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025) · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · employment and commuting, INSEE census 2023 · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025. Saint-Julien-en-Born 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 Saint-Julien-en-Born 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-Julien-en-Born has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents.
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The 3 things Saint-Julien-en-Born does most differently from other towns.
Saint-Julien-en-Born has 1 historic monument on the Culture ministry’s list, none at the highest level (classé).
The oldest protected part dates from the 19th century; the first monument here was protected in 2009.
Numa Turpin, born in 1802, is the one person born in Saint-Julien-en-Born before 1900 that Wikidata records.
Saint-Julien-en-Born has one historic monument; beside it, the nearest classé monuments in other towns, within 15.5 mi.
Phare de Contis: Photo: Jibi44 · CC BY-SA 3.0
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Saint-Julien-en-Born.
People 65 and over make up 31% of the town. Children under 15 make up 13%, below both Landes’ towns (15%) and compared French towns (17%). Saint-Julien-en-Born has a median age of 53.4 years.
52% women, 48% men
About 94 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.
| Saint-Julien-en-Born | Landes median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 13% | 15% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 7% | 8.9% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 18% | 21% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 30% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 31% | 28% | 22% |
| No diploma | 16% | 16% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 26% | 27% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 22% | 20% | 18% |
| Higher education | 30% | 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.
Houses in Saint-Julien-en-Born sell for €3,198/m² and apartments for €3,528/m². The estimated advertised rent is €11.27/m² a month, below both Landes’ towns (€13.01/m²) and compared French towns (€12.41/m²). Also worth knowing: from July 2023 to June 2026, 91 homes were sold here.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €3,198/m² | 54 |
| Apartments | €3,528/m² | 37 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
The earliest of these monuments dates from the 19th century. The pre-1919 share of homes is 7.2%.
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.
The nearest emergency department to Saint-Julien-en-Born is Ch Dax Antenne Saisonniere Smur Mimizan, 7.2 mi away. From 2016 to 2025, 172 residents of Saint-Julien-en-Born died, against 200 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 14% fewer. Average lifespans in Landes: 85.5 years for women, 80.3 for men (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 nationally. There are 3 general practitioners 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 · Care-home places are adjusted for by TownRatings, using a model rather than an official statistic. A less sure grade: it could be anywhere from C to A−.
A tenth of the labour force were unemployed, about level with compared French towns (10.1%) and below Landes’ towns (11.1%). At the census, a tenth of working residents in Saint-Julien-en-Born didn’t travel to work at all.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Violence against people averaged 3 per 1,000 residents a year over 2023–2025; graded property crimes averaged 11.7. Over 2025, Saint-Julien-en-Born logged 23 recorded offenses. Of the graded crimes here, criminal damage came up most often (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 · For family violence, other physical violence, sexual violence, 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, 35.0% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Museums and heritage in and near Saint-Julien-en-Born. Best known first.
2 notable people were born in Saint-Julien-en-Born.
Commune in Landes, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Saint-Julien-en-Born is a commune of 1,781 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
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-Julien-en-Born | 1,781 | — | — | C | — | B |
| Mimizan | 7,673 | 9.4 | C− | D | C− | B− |
| Castets | 2,516 | 14 | — | C+ | — | C− |
| Morcenx-la-Nouvelle | 5,022 | 16 | C | B− | B− | D |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Saint-Julien-en-Born 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 13 acts of criminal damage.
Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns, so Saint-Julien-en-Born 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.