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The town has 2,740 residents and lies in Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
Schools do well: brevet results 3 points above the expected rate. The weak point is cost of living (D): at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 10.3 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Few people walk, cycle or take the bus to work: just over a third of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 3% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. Homes sell for a median €3,900/m².
Figures: brevet and bac results, Ministry of Education · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · commuting, INSEE census 2023. Lahonce has no overall grade because safety isn’t graded here.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas.
The 2 things Lahonce does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Lahonce 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.
Lahonce has no overall grade because safety isn’t graded here.
How TownRatings grades French towns →
Lahonce has 1 historic monument on the Culture ministry’s list, none at the highest level (classé).
The oldest protected part dates from the 12th century; the first monument here was protected in 1925.
4% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Lahonce.
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
For the general bac, the closest lycée is 3.3 mi away. The nearest collège is 2.6 mi away. On results, collèges and lycées here come #5 of 40 in Pyrénées-Atlantiques.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège AturriNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 164 | 98%+3 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
1,000 jobs are based in Lahonce, for 1,250 working residents (0.8 per worker). Half of residents lived on more than €28,390 a year per consumption unit, above both Pyrénées-Atlantiques’ towns (€26,830) and compared French towns (€25,970). No commute at all: 3.1% of working residents locally at the census.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
Apartments in Lahonce sell for €3,783/m², houses for €4,168/m². Among the homes sold, 59% were houses. Between July 2023 and June 2026, buyers took 86 homes locally.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €4,168/m² | 51 |
| Apartments | €3,783/m² | 35 |
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.
2 GPs practise in Lahonce. In Pyrénées-Atlantiques, women can expect to live 86.4 years and men 81.3 (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 across France. From 2016 to 2025, 130 residents of Lahonce died, against 177 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 26% fewer.
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 adjustment for care homes is TownRatings’ own modeling, not an official figure.
People aged 15 to 24 make up 8.5% of the town, below both Pyrénées-Atlantiques’ towns (9.3%) and compared French towns (11%). Children under 15 count for 17% of the people here.
51% women, 49% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Pyrénées-Atlantiques 52.5%, France 51.8%.
| Lahonce | Pyrénées-Atlantiques median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 17% | 15% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 8.5% | 9.3% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 25% | 22% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 31% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 19% | 25% | 22% |
| No diploma | 12% | 15% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 31% | 25% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 21% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 33% | 36% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Pyrénées-Atlantiques median and France median: the median of compared communes
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
The earliest of these monuments dates from the 12th century. Homes from before 1919 make up 4% of the total.
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
Family days out, museums and heritage in and near Lahonce. Best known first.
Lahonce has one historic monument; beside it, the nearest classé monuments in other towns, within 15.5 mi.
Église Notre-Dame: Photo: Daniel VILLAFRUELA . · CC BY-SA 4.0
Wikidata places 1 person here, but the articles don’t both confirm Lahonce as the birthplace, so nobody is listed.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lahonce | 2,740 | — | — | D | — | A |
| Mouguerre | 5,428 | 1.5 | A+ | D | A+ | A |
| Urcuit | 3,047 | 2.2 | — | C+ | — | A |
| Saint-Pierre-d'Irube | 5,900 | 2.8 | B+ | D | A+ | C |
| Briscous | 2,965 | 3.3 | — | C− | — | C− |
| Saint-Martin-de-Seignanx Landes | 6,238 | 3.8 | B | D | B | B− |
| Villefranque | 3,069 | 3.9 | — | D | — | A+ |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Lahonce has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. Recorded figures: an average of 1.6 recorded violent incidents and 5.2 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
They grade A, better than 95% of compared French towns and #5 of 40 in Pyrénées-Atlantiques. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Lahonce grades D for cost of living.
Commune in Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Lahonce is a commune of 2,740 people in the Communauté d'agglomération du Pays Basque. 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 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.