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Home to 1,794 people, this town lies in Loire, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.
Homes are affordable: at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 5.7 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Add health to its strengths (B+): after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 20% below expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. Its weakest is walkability — 46% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 4% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. The median home sells for €1,998/m².
Figures: prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025) · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · commuting, INSEE census 2023. Lentigny 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 one thing Lentigny does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Lentigny 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.
Lentigny 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 Lentigny as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Muraille de porphyre dite Château Brûlé, in Villerest, 1.9 mi away.
16% 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 Lentigny.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
Of the homes sold, 98% were houses. House rents are put at about €8.14/m² a month. Between July 2023 and June 2026, buyers took 45 homes in Lentigny.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €2,005/m² | 44 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Lentigny holds 250 jobs; 800 of its residents are in work, so 0.3 jobs each. Unemployment stood at 5.2%, below Loire’s towns (8.6%) and compared French towns (10.1%) alike. Median disposable income comes to €27,460 a year per consumption unit.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
From 2016 to 2025, 112 residents of Lentigny died, against 140 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 20% fewer. Ages and care homes taken into account, deaths in Lentigny come to 80 per 100 predicted. One GP practises locally. At birth, a girl in Loire can expect 85.6 years and a boy 80.8 (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 · The care-home step is TownRatings’ own calculation, not an official number. A less sure grade: it could be anywhere from C+ to A.
Children under 15 make up 20% of residents. The middle age in Lentigny is 44.5. 23% of residents are 65 or over, lower than Loire’s towns (25%) and near compared French towns (22%).
51% women, 49% men
About 95 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Loire 52.0%, France 51.8%.
| Lentigny | Loire median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 20% | 17% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 7.5% | 11% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 23% | 22% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 26% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 23% | 25% | 22% |
| No diploma | 19% | 20% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 31% | 29% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 18% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 28% | 28% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Loire median and France median: the median of compared communes
15 offenses were reported in Lentigny during 2025. Violence against people ran at 3.4 per 1,000 residents a year and the graded property crimes at 7.5 (2023–2025 average). The commonest graded crime locally was burglary (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, 55.7% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Heritage, other places to visit and family days out in and near Lentigny. Best known first.
Nothing in Lentigny is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
One notable person was born in Lentigny.
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more. The map uses IGN’s commune boundaries. See them on the map →
Lentigny 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 5 acts of criminal damage.
Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Lentigny grades A− for cost of living.
Commune in Loire, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Lentigny is a commune of 1,794 people in the Communauté d'agglomération Roannais Agglomération. 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.