Luzech has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents. Its weakest subject is schools (D−): brevet results 9 points below the expected rate. At the median price of €1,688/m², a 70 m² home costs 4.9 times the median annual income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size) in the Communauté de communes de la Vallée du Lot et du Vignoble. Its strongest is walkability (B): 49% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 17% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas.
Each subject compares Luzech 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.
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Who lives here
An older town: 31% of residents are 65 or over
8.8% of residents are 15 to 24 and 31% are 65 or over, against 8.8% and 35% in the median compared commune of Lot. 24% of adults who have left education hold a higher-education diploma (Lot 26%, France 30%).
55median age
LuzechLot medianFrance median
Ages · share of residents
31%
Under 1515–2425–4445–6465+
Highest diploma · residents 15 and older who have left education
No diploma27%
CAP or BEP24%
Baccalauréat19%
Higher education24%
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
WomenFrance medianMen
About 93 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Lot 53.3%, France 51.8%. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
INSEE, census 2023 · Lot median and France median: the median of compared communes
HealthHealth C
Luzech’s death rate, adjusted for age and care homes, is higher than in 70% of compared French towns
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
From 2016 to 2025, 368 residents of Luzech died, against 297 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 24% more. Its two care homes for older people (83 places) count their residents as Luzech’s; allowing for them, deaths were 4% below expected. The adjustment lowers most towns’ figures, so the comparison is what counts: the median of compared French towns is 12% below expected. The care-home adjustment is a TownRatings modeling step, not an official statistic.
−4%deaths against expected, after care homesCHealth Grade
Deaths per 100 expected · 2016–2025
Raw124
Adjusted96
Median town88
Expected100
1
GPs in Luzech · 3 GP consultations a year per resident within reach (APL)
7.9 mi
to the nearest emergency department, Centre hospitalier Jean Rougier Cahors
7.9 mi
to the nearest maternity unit, Centre hospitalier Jean Rougier Cahors
85.1 · 80.5
years of life expectancy at birth, women · men, Lot, 2025 (provisional) · France 85.9 · 80.3
17.5% of Luzech’s working residents walked, cycled or took public transport to work in the 2023 census, against 13% for the median of compared French towns; 73% drove.
17%walk, cycle or take transit
How working residents got to work · census 2023
Driving73%
On foot14%
Bicycle2%
Motorbike or scooter2%
Public transport2%
850
jobs based in Luzech, 1.2 per working resident
9.3%
unemployment rate, ages 15 to 64 in the labor force · median of compared French towns 10.1%
€24,180
median annual income per consumption unit, 2023 · median of compared French towns €25,970
7%
worked without traveling (at or from home)
B
Walkability: better than 64% of compared French towns
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
History
Luzech is rich in protected monuments: 40 per 10,000 residents, more than Lot’s towns or compared French towns
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
For Luzech, that is above both Lot’s towns (18) and compared French towns (2.5). The Culture ministry lists 7 historic monuments in Luzech: 2 classé (France’s highest heritage protection) and 5 inscrit (the second level). Among the classé monuments in Luzech is Portions de l'oppidum.
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Safety
Luzech has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average
Police and gendarmerie recorded 10 offenses in the graded categories in Luzech in 2025. For family violence, other physical violence, sexual violence, burglary 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, 69.9% of the index here. With 850 jobs for 700 working residents, Luzech draws people from neighboring communes, and crimes are counted in the commune where they happen, then divided by its number of residents.
2.1recorded violent incidents per 1,000 residents a year
Recorded by type · 2025
Criminal damage10
Armed robbery0
Vehicle theft0
Fraud10
Theft without violence6
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.
2.1
recorded violent incidents per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025 average
4.2
recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025 average
10
offenses recorded in the graded categories in 2025
69.9%
of the index rests on the département’s average, used where small counts aren’t published
Ancien château: Photo: Chavakia84 · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Église Saint-Martin-de-Caïx: Photo: Michel Chanaud · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Chapelle Saint-Jacques dite des Pénitents Bleus: Photo: Torsade de Pointes · Public domain · Maison des Consuls: Photo: Torsade de Pointes · Public domain
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Questions about Luzech
Is Luzech safe?
Luzech has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. Recorded figures: an average of 2.1 recorded violent incidents and 4.2 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Are schools in Luzech good?
They grade D−, better than 3% of compared French towns. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Is Luzech expensive to live in?
Homes cost less than in most compared French towns: the median sale price from July 2023 to June 2026 was €1,688/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Estimated advertised apartment rents are €11.22/m² a month, charges included. Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns too, so Luzech grades B− for cost of living.
About Luzech
Commune in Lot, Occitanie
Luzech is a commune of 1,750 people in the Communauté de communes de la Vallée du Lot et du Vignoble. 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
Population
1,750 (INSEE, census 2023)
Intercommunality
Communauté de communes de la Vallée du Lot et du Vignoble
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.
