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Home to 1,518 people, this town lies in Landes, Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
Vielle-Saint-Girons’s schools beat most: brevet results a point above the expected rate. Buying in is costly (C−): at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 9.9 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. It is hard to get around without a car: 27% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 8% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. 48% of its homes are second homes.
Figures: brevet and bac results, Ministry of Education · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · commuting, INSEE census 2023. Vielle-Saint-Girons 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 Vielle-Saint-Girons 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.
Vielle-Saint-Girons has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents.
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The 3 things Vielle-Saint-Girons does most differently from other towns.
The Culture ministry’s list holds 2 historic monuments in Vielle-Saint-Girons; none is classé, France’s top protection.
The oldest protected part dates from the 19th century; the first monument here was protected in 2002.
4.2% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
The Culture ministry’s list holds 2 historic monuments in Vielle-Saint-Girons; none is classé, France’s top protection.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Vielle-Saint-Girons.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
Houses were 76% of what sold. A house rents for an estimated €11.41/m² a month. From July 2023 to June 2026, 90 homes were sold in Vielle-Saint-Girons.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €3,797/m² | 68 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
A third of residents have reached 65. Children under 15 make up 11%, below both Landes’ towns (15%) and compared French towns (17%). Among adults, 36% 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.
| Vielle-Saint-Girons | Landes median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 11% | 15% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 5.8% | 8.9% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 17% | 21% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 33% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 33% | 28% | 22% |
| No diploma | 15% | 16% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 25% | 27% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 19% | 20% | 18% |
| Higher education | 36% | 28% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Landes median and France median: the median of compared communes
The median disposable income was €26,990 a year per consumption unit, higher than Landes’ towns (€25,750) and near compared French towns (€25,970). 4.8% of Vielle-Saint-Girons’ working residents had no journey to work at the census. Unemployment stands at 10.3%.
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.
Collège pupils travel 2.6 mi to the nearest one.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Lucie AubracNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 90 | 90%+1 pt |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
Its care home for older people (59 places) counts its residents as Vielle-Saint-Girons’; allowing for it, deaths were 16% below expected. This Landes town has 2 family doctors. Also worth knowing: women in Landes live to 85.5 on average and men to 80.3 (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 across France. 235 deaths here between 2016 and 2025, where France’s rates at each age predict 221: 6% above.
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. A less sure grade: it could be anywhere from C+ to A−.
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
The protected list starts in the 19th century. Homes from before 1919 make up 4.2% of the total, above Landes’ towns (3.6%) but below compared French towns (7.4%).
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
Wikidata has nobody with a French article born in Vielle-Saint-Girons yet.
Commune in Landes, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Vielle-Saint-Girons is a commune of 1,518 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vielle-Saint-Girons | 1,518 | — | — | C− | — | B |
| Castets | 2,516 | 8.6 | — | C+ | — | C− |
| Magescq | 2,698 | 11 | B− | C | A | B− |
| Soustons | 8,701 | 12 | C+ | C− | B− | B+ |
| Tosse | 3,556 | 16 | B+ | D | A+ | B |
| Seignosse | 4,056 | 17 | C− | D− | D | B |
| Saint-Geours-de-Maremne | 3,089 | 17 | — | C− | — | B+ |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Vielle-Saint-Girons has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. Recorded figures: an average of 3.5 recorded violent incidents and 11.4 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. With 850 jobs for 600 working residents, Vielle-Saint-Girons draws people from neighboring communes, and crimes are counted in the commune where they happen, then divided by its number of residents.
They grade B+, better than 72% of compared French towns. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Estimated advertised apartment rents are €12.86/m² a month, charges included. Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Vielle-Saint-Girons 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 8, 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.