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Home to 6,923 people, this town lies in Seine-et-Marne, Île-de-France.
Real strengths, and real weak spots. Its strongest is jobs & income: 0.3 jobs per working resident; 6.3% unemployment. Lésigny’s overall grade is B−, better than 52% of compared French towns. In the ranking it comes #24 of 104 in Seine-et-Marne. Residents are healthier than most: after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 19% below expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. Buying in is costly (D): at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 8 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Schools lag: bac results 2 points below the expected rate; brevet results 3.4 points below the expected rate.
Figures: employment, INSEE census 2023 · deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025) · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · brevet and bac results, Ministry of Education.
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 Lésigny 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.
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The 2 things Lésigny does most differently from other towns.
On the Culture ministry’s list, Lésigny counts 1 historic monument: 1 classé at the top level of protection and 0 inscrit at the second.
1.5% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Lésigny has one historic monument; beside it, the nearest classé monuments in other towns, within 15.5 mi.
Église Saint-Yon: Photo: Chabe01 · CC BY-SA 4.0
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Lésigny.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
The middle sale price: €3,444/m², above Seine-et-Marne’s towns (€3,093/m²) and compared French towns (€2,430/m²) alike. Between July 2023 and June 2026, buyers took 242 homes in Lésigny. The sales split: 96% houses, the rest apartments.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €3,431/m² | 232 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Near Lésigny, 87.1% of collège pupils passed the brevet, above Seine-et-Marne’s towns (84.0%) and close to compared French towns (87.5%). Its collèges and lycées rank #31 of 114 in Seine-et-Marne on results. The nearest collège is 0.6 mi away.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège les HyverneauxNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 189 | 88%−5 pts |
| Lycée Camille ClaudelNearest lycéeGeneral lycée | General lycée | 333 | 95%−2 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
At birth, a girl in Seine-et-Marne can expect 85.4 years and a boy 81 (2025); across France, 85.9 and 80.3. From 2016 to 2025, 434 residents of Lésigny died, against 535 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 19% fewer. 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 care-home step is TownRatings’ own calculation, not an official number.
On average over 2023–2025, every 1,000 residents saw 3.4 violent offenses and 14.7 graded property crimes a year. In 2025, 122 offenses were recorded in Lésigny. Police and gendarmerie recorded 122 offenses in the graded categories in the town in 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 other physical violence, this figure isn’t published when it’s small (five or fewer in at least one of the last three years); the index uses the département’s average instead, 2.8% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Of those in the labour force, 6.3% are unemployed. 13.8% of commuters walked, cycled or took the bus or train at the census, lower than Seine-et-Marne’s towns (31.2%) and near compared French towns (13.4%).
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
Homes built before 1919 account for 1.5% of the housing. Among the classé monuments in Lésigny is Église Saint-Yon.
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
Children under 15 make up 20%, about level with Seine-et-Marne’s towns (20%) and above compared French towns (17%). 20% of residents are 65 or over. The share aged 15 to 24 is 12%.
51% women, 49% men
About 95 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Seine-et-Marne 51.4%, France 51.8%.
| Lésigny | Seine-et-Marne median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 20% | 20% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 12% | 13% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 21% | 26% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 28% | 25% | 26% |
| 65+ | 20% | 15% | 22% |
| No diploma | 9.7% | 17% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 16% | 21% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 22% | 20% | 18% |
| Higher education | 47% | 34% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Seine-et-Marne median and France median: the median of compared communes
Heritage and family days out in and near Lésigny. Best known first.
Wikidata has nobody with a French article born in Lésigny yet.
Commune in Seine-et-Marne, Île-de-France
Lésigny is a commune of 6,923 people in the Communauté de communes Les Portes Briardes entre Villes et Forêts. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lésigny | 6,923 | — | B− | D | B+ | B+ |
| Santeny Val-de-Marne | 3,913 | 1.9 | C+ | D | C | A |
| Servon | 3,565 | 2.2 | C | D | D | A |
| Marolles-en-Brie Val-de-Marne | 4,781 | 2.5 | B | D | B | A |
| Chevry-Cossigny | 4,075 | 2.8 | B+ | D | B+ | A− |
| La Queue-en-Brie Val-de-Marne | 12,241 | 3.4 | C+ | D | B | B |
| Ozoir-la-Ferrière | 21,238 | 3.5 | C+ | D | B− | A− |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
It grades B+ for safety, #25 of 104 in Seine-et-Marne. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 31 burglaries and 26 acts of criminal damage.
They grade C−, better than 24% of compared French towns and #31 of 114 in Seine-et-Marne. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Lésigny 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 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.