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Home to 2,631 people, this town lies in Var, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur.
Le Thoronet grades low on several counts. Cost of living is its weak spot: at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 8.9 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Crime is low: an average of 6.1 recorded violent incidents and 13.8 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. The overall grade lands at D, better than 7% of compared French towns. That places it #55 of 73 in Var.
Figures: recorded crime, SSMSI (Ministry of the Interior) · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · employment, INSEE census 2023.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas. The overall grade uses the other six subjects.
The one thing Le Thoronet does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Le Thoronet 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 Culture ministry lists 1 historic monument in Le Thoronet: 1 classé (France’s highest heritage protection) and 0 inscrit (the second level).
Heritage and other places to visit in and near Le Thoronet. Best known first.
AbbeyAbbaye du Thoronetin townChâteauChâteauChâteau de Trigancein townAttractionAttractionMaquettein townPhotos from Wikimedia Commons, each under its own licence (our copy, resized).
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Le Thoronet.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
Renting a house costs an estimated €12.30/m² a month. Advertised rents are estimated at €14.38/m² a month, close to Var’s towns (€14.43/m²) and above compared French towns (€12.41/m²). Le Thoronet recorded 122 home sales from July 2023 to June 2026.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €3,478/m² | 106 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
13.3% of the labour force are out of work. At the census, 4.2% of working residents in Le Thoronet didn’t travel to work at all. The median disposable income is €26,390 a year per consumption unit.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
28% of adults hold a degree, below Var’s towns (31%) and compared French towns (30%) alike. Over-65s are 26% of the population. The middle age in Le Thoronet is 49.7.
51% women, 49% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Var 51.4%, France 51.8%.
| Le Thoronet | Var median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 15% | 15% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 8.2% | 8.8% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 18% | 21% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 32% | 28% | 26% |
| 65+ | 26% | 26% | 22% |
| No diploma | 19% | 16% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 28% | 25% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 19% | 20% | 18% |
| Higher education | 28% | 31% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Var median and France median: the median of compared communes
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
From 2016 to 2025, 255 residents of Le Thoronet died, against 279 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 8% fewer. The nearest emergency department to Le Thoronet is Centre hospitalier la Dracenie de Draguignan, 9.5 mi away. Life expectancy in Var: 86 years for women and 80.3 for men (2025); France averages 85.9 and 80.3. This Var town has 5 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 · That adjustment for care homes is a model of TownRatings’ own, not official data. A less sure grade: it could be anywhere from C− to B.
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
Among the classé monuments in Le Thoronet is Ancienne abbaye. Homes from before 1919 make up 8.4% of the total, close to Var’s towns (8.7%) and above compared French towns (7.4%).
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
Police and gendarmerie recorded 60 offenses in Le Thoronet in 2025. In 2025, criminal damage led the graded crimes in the town.
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 and theft from vehicles go unpublished (five or fewer in at least one of the last three years); the département’s average stands in, 25.0% of the index here. With more than 10% of the index estimated that way, this Safety Grade is less sure than most. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Le Thoronet has one historic monument; beside it, the nearest classé monuments in other towns, within 15.5 mi.
Ancienne abbaye: Photo: SiefkinDR · Public domain
Wikidata has nobody with a French article born in Le Thoronet yet.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Le Thoronet | 2,631 | — | D | D | B | C+ |
| Lorgues | 9,849 | 3.6 | D | D | B | B− |
| Le Cannet-des-Maures | 5,140 | 4.4 | D | D | C+ | C |
| Le Luc | 11,310 | 4.4 | D− | C− | C | C− |
| Vidauban | 12,608 | 6.3 | D− | D | C− | D |
| Carcès | 3,540 | 6.6 | D− | C | C+ | C− |
| Flayosc | 4,673 | 6.9 | C+ | C− | A− | B− |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
It grades B for safety, #18 of 73 in Var. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 9 burglaries and 33 acts of criminal damage.
Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Le Thoronet grades D for cost of living.
Commune in Var, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Le Thoronet is a commune of 2,631 people in the Communauté de communes Cœur du Var. 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 October 30, 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.