Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
In Meurthe-et-Moselle, Grand Est, this town has 3,904 residents.
Buying in is costly: at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 7.4 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Overall, Lexy earns a C+, which places it #40 of 56 in Meurthe-et-Moselle. That leaves it better than 38% of compared French towns. Jobs & income is its strong suit (A): 0.8 jobs per working resident; 7.8% unemployment. Its remaining grades are unremarkable: C+ for safety, B for schools and B for walkability.
Figures: employment and commuting, INSEE census 2023 · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · recorded crime, SSMSI (Ministry of the Interior) · brevet and bac results, Ministry of Education · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas. The overall grade uses the other six subjects.
Each subject compares Lexy 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.
How TownRatings grades French towns →
The Culture ministry lists no building in Lexy as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Haut-fourneau (ancien), in Cons-la-Grandville, 1.6 mi away.
1.6% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Explore the history →Nothing in Lexy is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Lexy.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
Behind the median of €2,793/m²: 102 houses and apartments sold in Lexy between July 2023 and June 2026. No town in Meurthe-et-Moselle costs more to buy into than Lexy, at €2,793/m², the highest of 57. Among the homes sold, 77% were houses.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €2,792/m² | 79 |
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.
Its care home for older people (90 places) counts its residents as Lexy’s; allowing for it, deaths were 2% above expected. France’s death rates at each age would predict 418 deaths in the town from 2016 to 2025; there were 514, 23% more. Women in Meurthe-et-Moselle live to 84.7 on average and men to 79.2 (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 across France. The town has 3 family doctors.
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 adjustment is a TownRatings modeling step, not an official statistic.
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
On results, collèges and lycées here come #14 of 53 in Meurthe-et-Moselle. At the lycées within 5 km of Lexy, 93.3% passed the bac, in line with Meurthe-et-Moselle’s towns (94.1%) and compared French towns (92.9%).
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Émile GalléNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 166 | 93%−1 pt |
| Lycée polyvalent Alfred MézièresNearest lycéeGeneral lycée | General lycée | 469 | 94%±0 pts |
| Lycée professionnel Notre-Dame PrivateBest against expectations: 10 points above the expected rateVocational lycée | Vocational lycée | 36 | 97%+10 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Unemployment stood at 7.8%, lower than both Meurthe-et-Moselle’s towns (10.9%) and compared French towns (10.1%). Walking, cycling and public transport carried 11.2% of commuters at the census. At the census, 2.4% of working residents in Lexy didn’t travel to work at all.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
2025 saw 69 offenses recorded in Lexy. On average over 2023–2025, every 1,000 residents saw 10.4 violent offenses and 12.4 graded property crimes a year. More of the graded crimes locally were criminal damage than anything else (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 vehicle theft and theft from vehicles, 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, 2.7% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Graduates make up 32% of adults. The 65-and-over age group makes up 24% of residents. 18% are under 15, near both Meurthe-et-Moselle’s towns (17%) and compared French towns (17%).
52% women, 48% men
About 92 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Meurthe-et-Moselle 51.7%, France 51.8%.
| Lexy | Meurthe-et-Moselle median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 18% | 17% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 8.3% | 11% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 25% | 24% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 26% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 24% | 22% | 22% |
| No diploma | 18% | 21% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 28% | 28% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 18% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 32% | 27% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Meurthe-et-Moselle median and France median: the median of compared communes
Heritage and museums in and near Lexy. Best known first.
MuseumMusée des émaux et faïences de Longwy3.6 km northeast, in LongwyFortFortOuvrage de Latiremont4 km south, in UgnyFortFortEnceinte de Longwy3.7 km northeast, in LongwyMuseumMuseumLa Grange aux Arts4.2 km northeast, in LongwyPhotos from Wikimedia Commons, each under its own licence (our copy, resized).
Wikidata has nobody with a French article born in Lexy yet.
Commune in Meurthe-et-Moselle, Grand Est
Lexy is a commune of 3,904 people in the Agglomération du Grand Longwy. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lexy | 3,904 | — | C+ | D | C+ | C− |
| Réhon | 3,863 | 1.4 | C+ | C+ | B | B− |
| Cosnes-et-Romain | 2,802 | 1.6 | A− | C− | A− | B+ |
| Longwy | 15,679 | 2.3 | C | C+ | D | B |
| Herserange | 4,170 | 3 | C | C+ | B− | C |
| Haucourt-Moulaine | 3,495 | 3.5 | B | C | A | B+ |
| Gorcy | 2,971 | 3.5 | B+ | C− | A | A− |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
It grades C+ for safety, #32 of 56 in Meurthe-et-Moselle. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 5 burglaries and 21 acts of criminal damage.
They grade B, better than 62% of compared French towns and #14 of 53 in Meurthe-et-Moselle. 94% of 469 candidates passed the bac at Lycée polyvalent Alfred Mézières in 2025, at the expected rate given its pupils’ backgrounds. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Homes cost more than in most compared French towns: the median sale price from July 2023 to June 2026 was €2,793/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Lexy grades D 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 9, 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.