At the median price of €2,000/m², a 70 m² home costs 5.4 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the Communauté de communes de Vie et Boulogne. It is hard to get around without a car: 52% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 6% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. Homes sell for a median €2,000/m².
Figures: employment and commuting, INSEE census 2023 · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi. Les Lucs-sur-Boulogne 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.
How Les Lucs-sur-Boulogne grades
Each subject compares Les Lucs-sur-Boulogne 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.
Presbytère du Petit-Luc (ancien): Photo: Selbymay · CC BY-SA 3.0
The data
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Les Lucs-sur-Boulogne.
Work & commuteJobs & income B+
Fewer people in Les Lucs-sur-Boulogne are out of work than in Vendée’s towns or across compared French towns: 5.2%
6%walk, cycle or take transit
The census found 6.3% of commuters going to work on foot, by bike or by public transport. At the census, 4.0% of working residents in Les Lucs-sur-Boulogne didn’t travel to work at all. The median disposable income was €25,760 a year per consumption unit, near both Vendée’s towns (€26,310) and compared French towns (€25,970).
How working residents got to work · census 2023
Driving88%
On foot4%
Motorbike or scooter2%
Bicycle1%
Public transport1%
950
jobs based in Les Lucs-sur-Boulogne, 0.5 per working resident
5.2%
unemployment rate, ages 15 to 64 in the labor force · median of compared French towns 10.1%
€25,760
median annual income per consumption unit, 2023 · median of compared French towns €25,970
4%
worked without traveling (at or from home)
C+
Walkability: better than 35% of compared French towns
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
History
Les Lucs-sur-Boulogne keeps more of its old housing than Vendée’s towns or compared French towns: 14% built before 1919
2historic monuments
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
The earliest of these monuments dates from the 10th century. Les Lucs-sur-Boulogne has 2 historic monuments on the Culture ministry’s list, none at the highest level (classé).
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
Who lives here
A town of families: 19% of people in Les Lucs-sur-Boulogne are under 15, more than in both Vendée’s towns and compared French towns
42.1median age
The 65-and-over age group makes up 20% of residents. At 42.1, the median resident of Les Lucs-sur-Boulogne sits in the middle of the age range. Also worth knowing: just over a quarter of adults hold a degree, about level with Vendée’s towns (26%) and below compared French towns (30%).
Les Lucs-sur-BoulogneVendée medianFrance median
Ages · share of residents
10%
Under 1515–2425–4445–6465+
Highest diploma · residents 15 and older who have left education
No diploma17%
CAP or BEP32%
Baccalauréat21%
Higher education26%
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
WomenFrance medianMen
About an even split. Median share of women: Vendée 50.9%, France 51.8%.
INSEE, census 2023 · Vendée median and France median: the median of compared communes
HealthHealth B
Adjusted for age and care homes, Les Lucs-sur-Boulogne sees fewer deaths than 57% of compared French towns
−14%deaths against expected, after care homesBHealth Grade
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
Its care home for older people (104 places) counts its residents as Les Lucs-sur-Boulogne’s; allowing for it, deaths were 14% below expected. 425 deaths in the town between 2016 and 2025, where France’s rates at each age predict 372: 14% above. The nearest emergency department to Les Lucs-sur-Boulogne is Chd site de Montaigu, 12.1 mi away. In Vendée, women can expect to live 85.5 years and men 80.2 (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 across France.
Deaths per 100 expected · 2016–2025
Raw114
Adjusted86
Median town88
Expected100
2
GPs in Les Lucs-sur-Boulogne · 2.8 GP consultations a year per resident within reach (APL)
12.1 mi
to the nearest emergency department, Chd site de Montaigu
13.3 mi
to the nearest maternity unit, Chd site la Roche Sur Yon
85.5 · 80.2
years of life expectancy at birth, women · men, Vendée, 2025 (provisional) · France 85.9 · 80.3
For cost of living, Les Lucs-sur-Boulogne gets a B
€2,000/m²median sale price
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
Estimated advertised rent for houses: €9.19/m² a month. Les Lucs-sur-Boulogne recorded 129 home sales from July 2023 to June 2026. The estimated advertised rent is €11.05/m² a month, about level with Vendée’s towns (€11.32/m²) and below compared French towns (€12.41/m²).
Median sale price per m² · Jul 2023 to Jun 2026
Les Lucs-sur-Boulogne€2,000/m²
Median of towns€2,430/m²
Vendée median€2,339/m²
By type
Median per m²
Sales
Houses
€2,000/m²
129
€11.05/m²
estimated advertised apartment rent a month, charges included (€9.01 to €13.55/m² a month)
5.4
times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality, for 70 m² at the median price
€9.19/m²
estimated advertised house rent a month, charges included
€25,890
median annual income per consumption unit, Communauté de communes de Vie et Boulogne
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Safety
Les Lucs-sur-Boulogne has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average
3.1recorded violent incidents per 1,000 residents a year
Over 2025, Les Lucs-sur-Boulogne logged 32 recorded offenses. Violence against people averaged 3.1 per 1,000 residents a year over 2023–2025; graded property crimes averaged 6.8. In 2025, criminal damage led the graded crimes here.
Recorded by type · 2025
Criminal damage16
Vehicle theft9
Family violence7
Armed robbery0
Fraud14
Theft without violence5
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.
3.1
recorded violent incidents per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025 average
6.8
recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025 average
32
offenses recorded in the graded categories in 2025
29.4%
of the index rests on the département’s average, used where small counts aren’t published
Source: SSMSI (Interior Ministry), recorded crime by commune, 2023–2025 · Licence Ouverte · For other physical violence, sexual violence, burglary and theft from vehicles, the count isn’t published when it’s small (five or fewer in a year of the last three), so the index uses the département’s average, 29.4% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Les Lucs-sur-Boulogne is a commune of 3,701 people in the Communauté de communes de Vie et Boulogne. 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
3,701 (INSEE, census 2023)
Intercommunality
Communauté de communes de Vie et Boulogne
Département
Vendée (85)
Région
Pays de la Loire
Area
20.6 sq mi (53.3 km²)
INSEE code
85129
Les Lucs-sur-Boulogne’s neighbors
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more. The map uses IGN’s commune boundaries. See them on the map →
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.
