Find your town in Lot
Lot has 312 towns and villages, each with its page. Its 8 towns of 2,500 or more are graded against towns across France on cost of living, safety, schools, health and more; 23 of 1,000 to 2,499 have subject grades.
What Lot is like
The median ranked town in Lot grades highest on walkability and cost of living against towns across France, and lowest on safety. Choose a subject to find the towns that do best on it.
1 of 8 (13%) grade A− or better, against 25% of French towns.
Every town ranked by scoreThe full list for Lot, with what drives each gradeDépartement report cardHow Lot compares with France’s other départements, subject by subjectCompare two townsSide by side, subject by subjectFind a town that’s…
8 towns · ordered by Lot rank
1 of these towns has a Safety Grade with a caution: between 10% and 25% of its index uses the département’s average for crimes too few to publish.
304 smaller towns and villages in Lot
With the 8 towns of 2,500 or more above, these are all 312 communes of Lot, A to Z. Towns of 1,000 to 2,499 have subject grades on their page (the figure is the population); villages under 1,000 have their page with the figures, without grades. The search at the top finds these too.
281 villages under 1,000 people, A to Z: their page, no grades
Départements next to Lot
The départements that share a border with it: each one’s communes, and how many of its towns have an overall grade.
Questions about Lot
What is the best place to live in Lot?
Saint-Céré ranks first of 8 graded towns of 2,500 or more: walkability (A) and safety (A−) are its strongest grades; schools (C−) is its lowest. Pradines and Souillac follow.
How do the biggest towns in Lot grade?
Cahors (20,050 people) grades C+ overall, with its best grade in walkability. Figeac (9,793 people) grades C+ overall, with its best grade in walkability.
How are these towns ranked?
By the overall grade, which blends six graded subjects (cost of living, safety, schools, health, jobs and income, walkability) from public data, each comparing a town with every French town of 1,000 or more. The rank is among the towns of 2,500 or more in Lot, where five or more have an overall grade.
Is every commune in Lot on TownRatings?
Yes: all 312 have their page, listed on this page. Grading depends on size: the 8 towns of 2,500 or more get every grade we can give them, the 23 of 1,000 to 2,499 get subject grades, and the 281 villages under 1,000 have their page with the figures, without grades.
Photos: Saint-Céré, MOSSOT (CC BY-SA 3.0) · Pradines, Torsade de Pointes (Public domain) · Souillac, Patrick Nouhailler's… (CC BY-SA 3.0) · Gourdon, Henk Monster (CC BY 3.0) · Gramat, Kickray (CC BY-SA 3.0) · Cahors, The original uploader was Accrochoc at French Wikipedia . (CC BY-SA 3.0) · Figeac, Anthony Levrot (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Prayssac, Milca56 (CC BY-SA 4.0), via Wikimedia Commons.
Sources: TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranking French towns against each other only, run #47 of October 30, 2026 · INSEE, census 2023 (population). 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.