Living in Lège-Cap-Ferret
In Lège-Cap-Ferret, advertised rents for new lettings average €14.36 per m² a month (2025) and unemployment is 8.5% (2022).
The city had 5 schools in 2026. There were 126.4 physicians per 100,000 residents in 2024. Annual NO₂ was 1.94 µg/m³ in 2024. The foreign population count was 249 in 2021. At the end of 2022, the unemployment rate was 8.5%. Its population was 7,909 at the start of 2023.
Pricier rent than 75% of French cities that publish it, lower unemployment than 75% of French cities that publish it and more recorded crime than 90% of French cities that publish it.
Which France-wide rules apply when you move to Lège-Cap-Ferret?
National rules stay on the country page instead of being relabelled as city data.
Housing and cost
How much does it cost to rent in Lège-Cap-Ferret?
Average net cold rent is 14.36 EUR/m² per month (2025-Q3), excluding heating and operating charges.
Published average over existing tenancies; a specific flat can sit either side of it. Asking-rent series, where present, are separate rows in the table.
- Average net rent (nettokalt): 14.36 EUR/m²/month · static.data.gouv.fr16
| Metric | Value | Period | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Internet, 60 Mbps unlimited | 42.99 EUR/month | 30 Sept 2026 | Orange Livebox Fibre13Official · national market |
| Mobile plan, 10 GB | 19.99 EUR/month | 30 Sept 2026 | Orange 100GB mobile plan12Official · national market |
| Housing vacancy rate (legacy series) | 228 % | 31 Dec 2023 | INSEE5Official |
| Dwellings | 12,077 dwellings | 31 Dec 2023 | INSEE6Official |
| Main residence dwellings | 3,948 dwellings | 31 Dec 2023 | INSEE6Official |
| Average net rent (nettokalt) | 14.36 EUR/m²/monthcountry median €11.60 | 31 Dec 2025 | static.data.gouv.fr16Official |
Is Lège-Cap-Ferret a good place to live?
There is no universal answer. The profile scores below show who the available published evidence may suit; they are a decision aid, not a personal recommendation.
Worked out from these numbers
What does a 60 m² flat cost?
About 862 EUR a month in cold rent at the published average of 14.36 EUR/m² per month, before heating and operating charges.
Heating, water and operating charges come on top, and a specific flat can sit either side of an average.
Work and income
What is the unemployment rate in Lège-Cap-Ferret?
The unemployment rate is about 8.5 % (2022). Source: INSEE RP2022 ACT1 — population active by type of activity, commune9
Lège-Cap-Ferret 8.5%
Unemployment rate (%)
| Metric | Value | Period | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gigabit broadband availability | 97.81 % | 31 Mar 2026 | Independent ARCEP municipal count of premises eligible for the >=1 Gbit/s fixed advertised-speed class, divided by the ARCEP type=all municipal premises denominator. This is availability/eligibility, not adoption, measured speed, FTTH-only coverage or mobile coverage.4Official |
| Median gross salary (regional) | 2,550 EUR/month | 31 Dec 2022 | www.insee.fr18Official |
| Unemployment rate | 8.5 %country median 11.0% | 31 Dec 2022 | INSEE RP2022 ACT1 — population active by type of activity, commune9Official |
What does a salary buy in Lège-Cap-Ferret?
Take-home pay after tax, minus rent and the everyday bills this city publishes. Each line names its source.
RentInternetMobileLeft over
Line-by-line breakdown and sources
| Each month | € |
|---|---|
| Take-home payOECD Taxing Wages 2025, single, no children. Includes central and local income tax and employee social contributions. | €1,947 |
| Rent, 60 m²€14.36/m² · official · static.data.gouv.fr · 2025-12-31 | − €862 |
| Internet€43 · official · Orange Livebox Fibre · 2026-09-30 | − €43 |
| Mobile plan€20 · official · Orange 100GB mobile plan · 2026-09-30 | − €20 |
| Other everyday billsnot published for this city: public transport pass, utilities | — |
| Left overbefore the bills this city does not publish | €1,022 |
Public employment service
No exact public employment office is currently linked to Lège-Cap-Ferret. The verified national service may still offer online registration, job search or an official office finder.
France Travail — Public employment service
Country-level service information is not treated as proof of a physical office in Lège-Cap-Ferret. Sources checked through 10 Aug 2026.
Family and education
| Metric | Value | Period | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Schools | 5 schools | 27 May 2026 | RNEE exact Code_commune; etat=OUVERT; code_nature 100-199 or 300-399; unique UAI count.14Official · commune |
| Primary schools | 2 schools | 31 Dec 2025 | INSEE5Official |
School for children who move here. School is compulsory from age 3 to 16. Newly arrived pupils get support in the school language: UPE2A (unités pédagogiques pour élèves allophones nouvellement arrivés) + UPE2A-NSA variant. How to enrol a child (education.gouv.fr).
A country-wide rule for France; Lège-Cap-Ferret's school authority applies it locally.
Sources: eurydice.eacea.ec.europa.eu · 2025–2026.
Healthcare
| Metric | Value | Period | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Primary care doctors per 100,000 residents | 126.4 per 100,000 people | 31 Dec 2024 | INSEE BPE 2024 commune equipment and PMUN denominator evidence7Official |
Yes — migrants can receive medical care in Lège-Cap-Ferret when the national insurance or residence conditions are met.
Healthcare access follows the country-wide insurance rules; local capacity facts remain city data and are not used as proof of eligibility.
Open the official coverage guideSafety
How safe is Lège-Cap-Ferret?
Police recorded about 7,485 incidents per 100,000 (2025). This counts all offences, so it is not comparable with a violent-crime-only rate from another source. Source: Base statistique communale de la délinquance enregistrée par la police et la gendarmerie nationales, 2025 (géographie 2026)2
| Metric | Value | Period | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Recorded incidents per 100,000 residents | 7,485 incidents per 100,000country median 4,740 | 31 Dec 2025 | Base statistique communale de la délinquance enregistrée par la police et la gendarmerie nationales, 2025 (géographie 2026)2Official |
Language courses and integration
No exact city-level course record is currently published for Lège-Cap-Ferret. These verified national programmes may still apply; use the official programme page to check local availability.
Contrat d’intégration républicaine (CIR) — Integration course
État français and OFII
For eligible non-EU foreign residents.
DIAN language-training offer finder — Other
Réseau des Carif-Oref and DIAN
For people seeking French-language training.
Climate and air quality
mm
Within WHO 2021 guidelineAbove WHO, within EU limitAbove EU legal limitCity annual mean · µg/m³
City values from the published air-quality observations. WHO 2021 guidelines and EU limit values are published constants.
Lège-Cap-Ferret 1.9
annual NO₂, µg/m³ · cities per band
| Metric | Value | Period | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| NO₂ — annual mean | 1.94 µg/m³country median 14.8 | 2024 | 2024 validated hourly NO2 station observations transformed to the exact INSEE commune centre by deterministic nearest-station selection and equal-weight aggregation.1Official |
| Average precipitation by month | Jan 80.1 · Feb 61.2 · Mar 54.8 · Apr 58.9 · May 57.6 · Jun 56.5 · Jul 38.8 · Aug 48.4 · Sep 61.3 · Oct 71.7 · Nov 105.9 · Dec 87.1 mm | 1991–2020 | WMO Climatological Normals 1991-2020 — station CAP-FERRET17Official · nearest-station reading |
Population and city profile
The city covered 93.6 km² in 2026. Population density was 84 people per km² in 2023.
How many people live in Lège-Cap-Ferret?
The published population was 7,909 people in January 2023. Source: INSEE populations légales 2023 par commune8
By nationality
National passport96.9%
Calculated from the population and foreign-resident facts on this page.
| Metric | Value | Period | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| City area | 93.62 km² | 31 Dec 2026 | Séries historiques en 2023 — Recensement de la population, base des principaux indicateurs, communes de France hors Mayotte15Official |
| Foreign residents | 249 people | 2021 | Nationalité en 2021 — Base des tableaux détaillés — NAT111Official |
| Population density | 84.48 people/km² | 31 Dec 2023 | Séries historiques en 2023 — Recensement de la population, base des principaux indicateurs, communes de France hors Mayotte15Official |
| Population | 7,909 people | 1 Jan 2023 | INSEE populations légales 2023 par commune8Official |
International community in Lège-Cap-Ferret
Named groups from exact city-grain official distributions. Citizenship, birthplace, language and ancestry answer different questions and stay separate.
Citizenship
Population resident in France excluding Mayotte; INSEE RP2023 NAT; total age and sex · 2023 Census
| Published group | People | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Total | 7,909 | 100.0% |
| Français | 7,670 | 97.0% |
| Etranger | 239 | 3.0% |
Largest published groups; zero-count groups are omitted. Dimensions are source-native and are never merged. Official source10
Alternatives for people set on Lège-Cap-Ferret
Three places for the three reasons people leave a city on the shortlist: stay in the region, stay in the country, or keep the budget and change the country. A percentage appears only where both cities publish that metric from the same source, period and grain. Distances are straight lines — travel times are not collected yet.
Biganos as a Lège-Cap-Ferret alternative in the same region
21 km away, better on 2 of 5 metrics measured the same way, worse on 0.
- Recorded crime, per 100k: 4,211 Biganos vs 7,485 Lège-Cap-Ferret−44%
- Rent: €12.82/m² Biganos vs €14.36/m² Lège-Cap-Ferret−11%
- Residents: 11,431 Biganos vs 7,909 Lège-Cap-Ferret+45%
- Unemployment: 8.7% Biganos vs 8.5% Lège-Cap-Ferretsame level
- Median gross pay, region: €2,550 Biganos vs €2,550 Lège-Cap-Ferretsame level
Sartrouville as a Lège-Cap-Ferret alternative in the same country
A move, not a commute, at 526 km, better on 2 of 4 metrics measured the same way, worse on 1. Rent cannot be compared like for like.
- Residents: 52,763 Sartrouville vs 7,909 Lège-Cap-Ferret+567%
- Recorded crime, per 100k: 4,581 Sartrouville vs 7,485 Lège-Cap-Ferret−39%
- Median gross pay, region: €3,317 Sartrouville vs €2,550 Lège-Cap-Ferret+30%
- Rent: €20.51/m² Sartrouville vs €14.36/m² Lège-Cap-Ferretno percentage
- Unemployment: 10.5% Sartrouville vs 8.5% Lège-Cap-Ferret+23%
Cities near Lège-Cap-Ferret
Published cities within 25 km, nearest first. Distances are straight-line.
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Alternative cities in France
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Is Lège-Cap-Ferret part of Bordeaux?
Lège-Cap-Ferret is in the published commuting zone of Bordeaux; this does not mean it is administratively part of the hub. Bordeaux city profile
Relationship type: Commuting Zone Of. Source3
Common questions
Answered from the published values on this page, each with its source and date.
How many people live in Lège-Cap-Ferret?
The published population was 7,909 people in January 2023. Source: INSEE populations légales 2023 par commune.
How much does it cost to rent in Lège-Cap-Ferret?
Average net cold rent is 14.36 EUR/m² per month (2025-Q3), excluding heating and operating charges. For a 70 m² flat that is about 1,005 EUR a month before utilities. Source: static.data.gouv.fr.
How safe is Lège-Cap-Ferret?
Police recorded about 7,485 incidents per 100,000 (2025). This counts all offences, so it is not comparable with a violent-crime-only rate from another source. Source: Base statistique communale de la délinquance enregistrée par la police et la gendarmerie nationales, 2025 (géographie 2026).
What is the unemployment rate in Lège-Cap-Ferret?
The unemployment rate is about 8.5 % (2022). Source: INSEE RP2022 ACT1 — population active by type of activity, commune.
What is the typical salary around Lège-Cap-Ferret?
The median gross salary is 2,550 EUR/month. Source: www.insee.fr.
How many foreign residents live in Lège-Cap-Ferret?
249 residents hold a foreign nationality. Source: Nationalité en 2021 — Base des tableaux détaillés — NAT1.
Is Lège-Cap-Ferret a good place to live?
Lège-Cap-Ferret may suit different people for different reasons. The page's profile scores compare published cost, work, housing, safety, healthcare and other available factors; they are a decision aid, not a universal recommendation.
Is Lège-Cap-Ferret part of Bordeaux?
Lège-Cap-Ferret is in the published commuting zone of Bordeaux; this does not mean it is administratively part of the hub.
Which cities are near Lège-Cap-Ferret?
Arès, Andernos-les-Bains, Lanton, Audenge, La Teste-de-Buch are near Lège-Cap-Ferret. Typed relationship labels are shown where published; other rows use straight-line distance from admitted coordinates.
How many people are in the Français citizenship group in Lège-Cap-Ferret?
The official citizenship distribution records 7,670 people (97.0%) in the source-defined population for 2023 Census. This is a citizenship measure, not a general estimate of ethnicity or migration status.
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ImmigrationDB. (2026, October 16). Lège-Cap-Ferret, France: population, rent, salary, jobs [ImmigrationDB compilation; version e87c492161b931077464ac48b86450ad]. ImmigrationDB. https://immigrationdb.com/cities/fr/lege-cap-ferret/ Retrieved 2026-10-16. Compilation license: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/BibTeX citation
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title = {Lège-Cap-Ferret, France: population, rent, salary, jobs},
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date = {2026-10-16},
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