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This town in Loire-Atlantique, Pays de la Loire has a population of 5,693.
Ligné’s schools beat most (A): brevet results 2.2 points above the expected rate. Housing is expensive (C): at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 6.3 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Getting around depends on the car: three in five residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 6% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work.
Figures: brevet and bac results, Ministry of Education · employment and commuting, INSEE census 2023 · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025. Ligné has no overall grade because safety isn’t graded here.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas.
The 2 things Ligné does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Ligné 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.
Ligné has no overall grade because safety isn’t graded here.
How TownRatings grades French towns →
The Culture ministry lists no building in Ligné as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Moulins pendus dits péage fortifié, in Orée d'Anjou, 6.8 mi away.
11% 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 Ligné.
13% of residents are 65 or over, below Loire-Atlantique’s towns (19%) and compared French towns (22%) alike. The 15-to-24 age group makes up just over one in ten residents. Line up the people of Ligné by age and the one in the middle is 38.8.
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Loire-Atlantique 51.0%, France 51.8%.
| Ligné | Loire-Atlantique median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 23% | 19% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 12% | 11% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 26% | 24% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 26% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 13% | 19% | 22% |
| No diploma | 14% | 14% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 29% | 28% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 21% | 19% | 18% |
| Higher education | 33% | 34% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Loire-Atlantique median and France median: the median of compared communes
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
The closest lycée for the general bac is 6 mi off. For exam results, it comes #13 of 83 in Loire-Atlantique.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Agnès VardaNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 153 | 96%+4 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
6.3% of commuters went to work on foot, by bike or by public transport at the census. Half of residents lived on more than €27,020 a year per consumption unit, close to both Loire-Atlantique’s towns (€27,630) and compared French towns (€25,970).
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
The market in Ligné: 135 sales of houses and apartments between July 2023 and June 2026. Houses made up 98% of the homes sold; apartments the rest. For a house, the estimated advertised rent is €10.80/m² a month.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €2,384/m² | 132 |
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.
From 2016 to 2025, 428 residents of Ligné died, against 354 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 21% more. Adjusted for age and care homes, Ligné records 97 deaths per 100 expected, higher than both Loire-Atlantique’s towns (85) and compared French towns (88). Also worth knowing: the nearest emergency department to Ligné is Antenne Smur du Chu de Nantes site Ch Ancenis, 10 mi away. At birth, a girl in Loire-Atlantique can expect 86.2 years and a boy 80.3 (2025); across France, 85.9 and 80.3.
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.
On average over 2023–2025, every 1,000 residents saw 3.2 violent offenses and 7 graded property crimes a year. Recorded offenses in Ligné came to 34 in 2025. In 2025, family violence led the graded crimes 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 · For other physical violence, sexual violence, burglary and vehicle theft, the count isn’t published when it’s small (five or fewer in a year of the last three), so the index uses the département’s average, 27.8% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Heritage and other places to visit in and near Ligné. Best known first.
Nothing in Ligné is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
Wikidata places 1 person here, but the articles don’t both confirm Ligné as the birthplace, so nobody is listed.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ligné | 5,693 | — | — | C | — | C |
| Petit-Mars | 3,888 | 3.4 | — | C+ | — | A |
| Saint-Mars-du-Désert | 5,523 | 3.6 | — | C+ | — | B |
| Les Touches | 2,638 | 3.7 | — | A− | — | D |
| Couffé | 2,535 | 4.2 | — | B | — | A |
| Le Cellier | 4,051 | 5.3 | B+ | C | A− | B− |
| Oudon | 3,904 | 5.9 | A− | C− | A− | B− |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Ligné has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average.
They grade A, better than 90% of compared French towns and #13 of 83 in Loire-Atlantique. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Estimated advertised apartment rents are €13.33/m² a month, charges included. Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Ligné grades C for cost of living.
Commune in Loire-Atlantique, Pays de la Loire
Ligné is a commune of 5,693 people in the Communauté de communes du Pays d'Ancenis. 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.