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2,538 people live in this town in Savoie, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.
Work and incomes are strong (B+): 0.8 jobs per working resident; 6.6% unemployment. Health lags: after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 3% above expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. Most journeys need a car (D): just over one in ten residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 5% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. At the median price of €2,489/m², a 70 m² home costs 6.3 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the Communauté de communes des Vallées d'Aigueblanche.
Figures: employment and commuting, INSEE census 2023 · deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025) · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi. La Léchère has no overall grade because safety and schools aren’t graded here.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas.
The one thing La Léchère does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares La Léchère 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.
La Léchère has no overall grade because safety and schools aren’t graded here.
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La Léchère has 1 historic monument on the Culture ministry’s list: 1 classé, the highest protection, and 0 inscrit, the second level.
The oldest protected part dates from the 17th century; the first monument here was protected in 1991.
Michel Guméry, born in 1751, is the one person born in La Léchère before 1900 that Wikidata records.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in La Léchère.
Households’ median disposable income: €25,830 a year per consumption unit. 6.6% of the labour force were unemployed, lower than both Savoie’s towns (7.2%) and compared French towns (10.1%). Public transport took 2.1% of La Léchère’s working residents 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.
After the care-home adjustment, La Léchère’s deaths ran at 103 per 100 expected, above Savoie’s towns (86) and compared French towns (88) alike. France’s death rates at each age would predict 213 deaths in the town from 2016 to 2025; there were 220, 3% more. Women in Savoie live to 86.6 on average and men to 81.2 (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 across France. The town has 4 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 adjustment for care homes is TownRatings’ own modeling, not an official figure.
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
Homes from before 1919 make up 8.5% of the total, above both Savoie’s towns (5.9%) and compared French towns (7.4%). Among the classé monuments in La Léchère is Église de Doucy. Its heritage reaches back to the 17th century.
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
In La Léchère, houses go for €2,423/m² and apartments for €3,000/m². Houses were 70% of what sold.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €2,423/m² | 72 |
| Apartments | €3,000/m² | 31 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
People aged 15 to 24 are nearly a tenth of the population. Children under 15 make up 16%, near Savoie’s towns (17%) and lower than compared French towns (17%). 21% of residents are 65 or over.
49% women, 51% men
About 106 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Savoie 51.5%, France 51.8%.
| La Léchère | Savoie median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 16% | 17% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 9.3% | 10% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 23% | 24% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 30% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 21% | 22% | 22% |
| No diploma | 18% | 14% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 37% | 24% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 19% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 20% | 37% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Savoie median and France median: the median of compared communes
More of the graded crimes in La Léchère were criminal damage than anything else (2025). The 2025 count: 27 offenses in the town. Per 1,000 residents a year, there were 5.4 cases of violence against people and 7.8 graded property crimes (2023–2025 average).
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 · Small counts of other physical violence, sexual violence, burglary, vehicle theft and theft from vehicles go unpublished (five or fewer in at least one of the last three years); the département’s average stands in, 28.1% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Heritage, museums and family days out in and near La Léchère. Best known first.
La Léchère has one historic monument; beside it, the nearest classé monuments in other towns, within 15.5 mi.
3 notable people were born in La Léchère.
Michel Guméry: CHABERT Louis, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| La Léchère | 2,538 | — | — | C+ | — | C− |
| Grand-Aigueblanche | 3,780 | 2.3 | A− | C− | A | B− |
| Moûtiers | 3,487 | 4.4 | C | B | D | D− |
| Aime-la-Plagne | 4,385 | 7.9 | A | C− | A+ | B− |
| Albertville | 19,978 | 10 | C− | C | C | C+ |
| Gilly-sur-Isère | 3,149 | 10 | A− | D | A− | A |
| La Plagne Tarentaise | 3,836 | 10 | B+ | D | B | B+ |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
La Léchère has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average.
Prices are close to the median of compared French towns: the median sale price from July 2023 to June 2026 was €2,489/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns, so La Léchère grades C+ for cost of living.
Commune in Savoie, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
La Léchère is a commune of 2,538 people in the Communauté de communes des Vallées d'Aigueblanche. 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.