Schools do well (B+): brevet results at the expected rate. Cost of living is a strength too — at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 5.4 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. All told, that adds up to an A overall and a rank of #13 of 38 in Puy-de-Dôme. That leaves it better than 89% of compared French towns. The rest of its grades are middling: C+ for jobs & income and B− for walkability.
Figures: brevet and bac results, Ministry of Education · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · employment and commuting, INSEE census 2023 · 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.
How Lezoux grades
Each subject compares Lezoux 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.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Lezoux.
History
7 historic monuments, 1 classé
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
Homes from before 1919 make up 12% of the total. Among the classé monuments in Lezoux is Ancienne église Notre-Dame. Scaled to its population, that is 11 protected monuments for every 10,000 people here.
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
HousingCost of living B+
Estimated advertised rents run lower in Lezoux than in Puy-de-Dôme’s towns or across compared French towns: €9.87/m² a month
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
The median price, €2,085/m², comes from 202 sales of houses and apartments in Lezoux from July 2023 to June 2026. Among the homes sold, 99% were houses. House rents are put at about €9.37/m² a month.
€2,085/m²median sale price
Median sale price per m² · Jul 2023 to Jun 2026
Lezoux€2,085/m²
Median of towns€2,430/m²
Puy-de-Dôme median€2,181/m²
By type
Median per m²
Sales
Houses
€2,086/m²
199
€9.87/m²
estimated advertised apartment rent a month, charges included (€7.88 to €12.36/m² a month)
5.4
times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality, for 70 m² at the median price
€9.37/m²
estimated advertised house rent a month, charges included
€26,790
median annual income per consumption unit, Communauté de communes Entre Dore et Allier
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Safety
Lezoux ranks below 72% of compared French towns for crime per resident
Over 2025, Lezoux logged 116 recorded offenses. Each year (2023–2025 average), violence against people came to 5.9 per 1,000 residents and the graded property crimes to 11. More of the graded crimes here were criminal damage than anything else (2025).
5.9recorded violent incidents per 1,000 residents a yearB+Safety Grade
Recorded by type · 2025
Criminal damage43
Family violence25
Other physical violence16
Sexual violence14
Burglary11
Vehicle theft7
Fraud41
Theft without violence23
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.
5.9
recorded violent incidents per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025 average
11
recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025 average
116
offenses recorded in the graded categories in 2025
2.6%
of the index rests on the département’s average, used where small counts aren’t published
Source: SSMSI (Interior Ministry), recorded crime by commune, 2023–2025 · Licence Ouverte · For armed robbery 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, 2.6% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
HealthHealth B+
Lezoux has a lower adjusted death rate than 69% of compared French towns
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
Its two care homes for older people (388 places) count their residents as Lezoux’s; allowing for them, deaths were 19% below expected. France’s death rates at each age would predict 905 deaths here from 2016 to 2025; there were 1,128, 25% more. The nearest emergency department to Lezoux is Centre hospitalier de Thiers, 6.8 mi away. The town has 6 family doctors.
−19%deaths against expected, after care homesB+Health Grade
Deaths per 100 expected · 2016–2025
Raw125
Adjusted81
Median town88
Expected100
6
GPs in Lezoux · 3 GP consultations a year per resident within reach (APL)
6.8 mi
to the nearest emergency department, Centre hospitalier de Thiers
6.8 mi
to the nearest maternity unit, Centre hospitalier de Thiers
85.6 · 79.8
years of life expectancy at birth, women · men, Puy-de-Dôme, 2025 (provisional) · France 85.9 · 80.3
Children make up 19% of Lezoux, above Puy-de-Dôme’s towns and compared French towns
9.5% of residents are 15 to 24, about level with Puy-de-Dôme’s towns (9.7%) and below compared French towns (11%). Degrees are held by 23% of adults. Line up the people of Lezoux by age and the one in the middle is 43.1.
43.1median age
LezouxPuy-de-Dôme medianFrance median
Ages · share of residents
23%
Under 1515–2425–4445–6465+
Highest diploma · residents 15 and older who have left education
No diploma25%
CAP or BEP29%
Baccalauréat17%
Higher education23%
Women and men · all residents
54% women, 46% men
WomenFrance medianMen
About 86 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Puy-de-Dôme 52.2%, France 51.8%.
INSEE, census 2023 · Puy-de-Dôme median and France median: the median of compared communes
Work & commuteJobs & income C+
Unemployment in Lezoux, 11.1%, runs above Puy-de-Dôme’s towns and compared French towns
Nearly one in ten commuters walked, cycled or took the bus or train at the census, lower than both Puy-de-Dôme’s towns (10.8%) and compared French towns (13.4%). Lezoux has 2,250 jobs for 2,650 working residents, 0.9 per worker. Median disposable income comes to €26,050 a year per consumption unit.
8%walk, cycle or take transit
How working residents got to work · census 2023
Driving86%
On foot4%
Public transport3%
Bicycle1%
Motorbike or scooter1%
2,250
jobs based in Lezoux, 0.9 per working resident
11.1%
unemployment rate, ages 15 to 64 in the labor force · median of compared French towns 10.1%
€26,050
median annual income per consumption unit, 2023 · median of compared French towns €25,970
4%
worked without traveling (at or from home)
B−
Walkability: better than 48% of compared French towns
Ancienne chapelle Saint-Georges: Photo: Krzysztof Golik · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Ancienne porte de la ville: Photo: Rilba · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Croix de carrefour: Photo: Rilba · CC BY-SA 3.0
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Questions about Lezoux
Is Lezoux safe?
It grades B+ for safety, #16 of 38 in Puy-de-Dôme. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 11 burglaries and 43 acts of criminal damage.
Are schools in Lezoux good?
They grade B+, better than 73% of compared French towns and #7 of 41 in Puy-de-Dôme. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Is Lezoux expensive to live in?
Homes cost less than in most compared French towns: the median sale price from July 2023 to June 2026 was €2,085/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Lezoux grades B+ for cost of living.
About Lezoux
Commune in Puy-de-Dôme, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Lezoux is a commune of 6,528 people in the Communauté de communes Entre Dore et Allier. 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
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.
