Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
A town of 8,701 in Landes, Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
Soustons grades C+ overall: better than 39% of compared French towns, and #20 of 29 in Landes. Its weakest subject is cost of living (C−): at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 10.6 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 17% 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 overall grade uses the other six subjects.
The 3 things Soustons does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Soustons 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 Soustons as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Église Saint-Martin, in Saint-Martin-de-Hinx, 12 mi away.
4.5% 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 Soustons.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
In the comparison, Soustons comes above both Landes’ towns (€3,172/m²) and compared French towns (€2,430/m²). In Soustons, houses go for €4,027/m² and apartments for €4,167/m².
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €4,027/m² | 305 |
| Apartments | €4,167/m² | 197 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
For Soustons, that is above both Landes’ towns (28%) and compared French towns (22%). Children under 15 make up 13% of residents.
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.
| Soustons | Landes median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 13% | 15% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 7.2% | 8.9% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 19% | 21% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 28% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 33% | 28% | 22% |
| No diploma | 17% | 16% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 24% | 27% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 20% | 20% | 18% |
| Higher education | 34% | 28% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Landes median and France median: the median of compared communes
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
Soustons sits below both Landes’ towns (88) and compared French towns (88) on this measure. From 2016 to 2025, 1,020 residents of Soustons died, against 1,137 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 10% 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
Police and gendarmerie recorded 190 offenses in the graded categories in Soustons in 2025. For armed robbery, 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, 0.3% 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
11.3% of Soustons’ working residents walked, cycled or took public transport to work in the 2023 census, against 13% for the median of compared French towns; 83% drove.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
That puts Soustons below Landes’ towns (92.6%) but above compared French towns (87.5%). Schools rank #30 of 31 in Landes.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège François MitterrandNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 121 | 91%−3 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Family days out, other places to visit and museums in and near Soustons. Best known first.
Nothing in Soustons is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
12 notable people were born in Soustons.
Robert Lassalle: Agence de presse Meurisse, Public domain · Bernard Pontneau: Capbourrut, CC BY-SA 4.0
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Soustons | 8,701 | — | C+ | C− | B− | B+ |
| Tosse | 3,556 | 4.2 | B+ | D | A+ | B |
| Seignosse | 4,056 | 4.9 | C− | D− | D | B |
| Magescq | 2,698 | 5.9 | B− | C | A | B− |
| Saint-Vincent-de-Tyrosse | 8,014 | 6.1 | C | D | B− | C+ |
| Saint-Geours-de-Maremne | 3,089 | 6.7 | — | C− | — | B+ |
| Soorts-Hossegor | 3,817 | 7.4 | B− | D− | D− | A− |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
It grades B− for safety, #19 of 29 in Landes. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 24 burglaries and 75 acts of criminal damage.
They grade B−, better than 50% of compared French towns. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Estimated advertised apartment rents are €13.01/m² a month, charges included. Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Soustons grades C− for cost of living.
Commune in Landes, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Soustons is a commune of 8,701 people in the Communauté de communes Maremne Adour Côte Sud. 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.