Buying a home costs less than in most towns: A year’s estimated rent on a 70 m² apartment is 31% of the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Health is a strength: after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 21% below expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. Its lowest grade is for walkability (C−): 40% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 8% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. Just 12% of residents are 65 or older.
Figures: prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025) · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · commuting, INSEE census 2023. Saint-Lieux-lès-Lavaur has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas.
Each subject compares Saint-Lieux-lès-Lavaur 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 Saint-Lieux-lès-Lavaur.
Who lives here
Children make up 22% of Saint-Lieux-lès-Lavaur, above Tarn’s towns and compared French towns
39.2median age
Graduates make up 44% of adults. Young adults of 15 to 24 are 9.5% of residents, near Tarn’s towns (9.2%) and lower than compared French towns (11%). Half the people of Saint-Lieux-lès-Lavaur are older than 39.2.
Saint-Lieux-lès-LavaurTarn medianFrance median
Ages · share of residents
10%
Under 1515–2425–4445–6465+
Highest diploma · residents 15 and older who have left education
No diploma7%
CAP or BEP23%
Baccalauréat23%
Higher education44%
Women and men · all residents
49% women, 51% men
WomenFrance medianMen
About 105 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Tarn 52.2%, France 51.8%.
Source: Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Work & commuteJobs & income B−
Incomes in Saint-Lieux-lès-Lavaur run higher than in Tarn’s towns and across compared French towns: a median €28,820 a year per consumption unit
8%walk, cycle or take transit
At the census, 8.3% went to work on foot, by bike or by public transport, lower than both Tarn’s towns (10.8%) and compared French towns (13.4%). Unemployment runs at 7.1%. Per resident in work, Saint-Lieux-lès-Lavaur counts 0.2 jobs (100 jobs, 650 workers).
How working residents got to work · census 2023
Driving87%
Public transport6%
On foot1%
Motorbike or scooter1%
Bicycle1%
100
jobs based in Saint-Lieux-lès-Lavaur, 0.2 per working resident
7.1%
unemployment rate, ages 15 to 64 in the labor force · median of compared French towns 10.1%
€28,820
median annual income per consumption unit, 2023 · median of compared French towns €25,970
3%
worked without traveling (at or from home)
C−
Walkability: better than 24% of compared French towns
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
HealthHealth A−
Adjusted for age and care homes, Saint-Lieux-lès-Lavaur sees fewer deaths than 75% of compared French towns
−21%deaths against expected, after care homesA−Health Grade
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
Average lifespans in Tarn: 86.5 years for women, 81.6 for men (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 nationally. Adjusted mortality in Saint-Lieux-lès-Lavaur: 79 deaths for every 100 expected. France’s death rates at each age would predict 55 deaths locally from 2016 to 2025; there were 43, 21% fewer.
Deaths per 100 expected · 2016–2025
Raw79
Adjusted79
Median town88
Expected100
0
GPs in Saint-Lieux-lès-Lavaur · 3.8 GP consultations a year per resident within reach (APL)
5.4 mi
to the nearest emergency department, Centre hospitalier de Lavaur site Guiraud
5.4 mi
to the nearest maternity unit, Centre hospitalier de Lavaur site Guiraud
86.5 · 81.6
years of life expectancy at birth, women · men, Tarn, 2025 (provisional) · France 85.9 · 80.3
Saint-Lieux-lès-Lavaur is a commune of 1,269 people in the Communauté de communes Tarn-Agout. 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
Population
1,269 (INSEE, census 2023)
Intercommunality
Communauté de communes Tarn-Agout
Département
Tarn (81)
Région
Occitanie
Area
3.7 sq mi (9.6 km²)
INSEE code
81261
Saint-Lieux-lès-Lavaur’s neighbors
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more. The map uses IGN’s commune boundaries. See them on the map →
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Questions about Saint-Lieux-lès-Lavaur
Is Saint-Lieux-lès-Lavaur safe?
Saint-Lieux-lès-Lavaur has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. Recorded figures: an average of 3.8 recorded violent incidents and 4.7 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
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.