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7,353 people live in this town in Saône-et-Loire, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté.
Homes are affordable here, though not without reasons. Where it does best is cost of living: at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 2.9 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Digoin’s overall grade of B+ puts it better than 70% of compared French towns, #21 of 29 in Saône-et-Loire. Schools are another plus (B+) — bac results a point below the expected rate; brevet results 6 points above the expected rate. Work and incomes lag: 1.3 jobs per working resident; 14.8% unemployment. Crime is the sore point: an average of 13.8 recorded violent incidents and 13.3 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Figures: prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · brevet and bac results, Ministry of Education · employment, INSEE census 2023 · recorded crime, SSMSI (Ministry of the Interior).
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas. The overall grade uses the other six subjects.
The 3 things Digoin does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Digoin 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 Digoin as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Église Saint-Georges, in Chassenard, 3.4 mi away.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Digoin.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
The median price, €1,029/m², comes from 240 sales of houses and apartments in Digoin from July 2023 to June 2026. Only one of the 32 towns in Saône-et-Loire costs less to buy into than Digoin, whose median sale is €1,029/m². A house in Digoin goes for €1,253/m², an apartment for €745/m².
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €1,253/m² | 139 |
| Apartments | €745/m² | 101 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Under 15: just over one in ten residents. Just over a third of residents are 65 or over, higher than both Saône-et-Loire’s towns (30%) and compared French towns (22%). Half of Digoin is older than 53.9, half younger.
53% women, 47% men
About 90 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Saône-et-Loire 52.3%, France 51.8%. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
| Digoin | Saône-et-Loire median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 12% | 15% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 9.5% | 9.5% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 18% | 19% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 27% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 34% | 30% | 22% |
| No diploma | 33% | 25% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 31% | 31% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 14% | 17% | 18% |
| Higher education | 14% | 22% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Saône-et-Loire median and France median: the median of compared communes
Criminal damage topped the graded crimes in Digoin (2025). The police record for Digoin lists 212 offenses in 2025. With 3,100 jobs for 2,450 working residents, Digoin draws people in from neighbouring communes.
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 · When theft from vehicles number five or fewer in a recent year, the figure is withheld, and the index uses the département’s average instead (0.3% of the index here). The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses. Crimes are counted in the commune where they happen, then divided by its residents, so a town that draws people in from around can look higher.
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
A collège lies 0.9 mi away. Its collèges and lycées rank #17 of 31 in Saône-et-Loire on results.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Roger SemetNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 78 | 95%+6 pts |
| Lycée général et technologique Camille ClaudelNearest lycéeGeneral lycée | General lycée | 146 | 95%−1 pt |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
The median disposable income was €22,290 a year per consumption unit, below both Saône-et-Loire’s towns (€24,330) and compared French towns (€25,970). 4.0% of Digoin’s working residents had no journey to work at the census.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
Digoin has 6 family doctors. Its four care homes for older people (304 places) count their residents as Digoin’s; allowing for them, deaths were 14% below expected. From 2016 to 2025, 1,333 residents of Digoin died, against 1,221 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 9% more. At birth, a girl in Saône-et-Loire can expect 85.5 years and a boy 78.9 (2025); across France, 85.9 and 80.3.
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 · Care-home places are adjusted for by TownRatings, using a model rather than an official statistic.
Museums and other places to visit in and near Digoin. Best known first.
Nothing in Digoin is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
15 notable people were born in Digoin.
Étienne Maynaud Bizefranc de Lavaux: Commonst+, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Alexandre Dumaine: Arnaud 25, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Gabriel Chavet: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain · Hyacinthe Maublanc de Chiseuil: Franck, Public domain · René Lucien Martin: G.Garitan, CC BY-SA 4.0
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Digoin | 7,353 | — | B+ | A+ | C | B− |
| Paray-le-Monial | 9,291 | 6 | A+ | A− | A− | B |
| Gueugnon | 6,528 | 8.4 | A+ | A+ | B | B+ |
| Charolles | 2,772 | 14 | A+ | A | A | B− |
| Bourbon-Lancy | 4,674 | 15 | A+ | A+ | A | B |
| Dompierre-sur-Besbre Allier | 2,959 | 15 | A− | A+ | A+ | B− |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
It grades C for safety, #24 of 29 in Saône-et-Loire. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 23 burglaries and 54 acts of criminal damage.
They grade B+, better than 67% of compared French towns and #17 of 31 in Saône-et-Loire. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Homes cost less than in most compared French towns: the median sale price from July 2023 to June 2026 was €1,029/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns too, so Digoin grades A+ for cost of living.
Commune in Saône-et-Loire, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
Digoin is a commune of 7,353 people in the Communauté de communes Le Grand Charolais. 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 4, 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.