Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
A town of 3,183 in Ardèche, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.
Chomérac has no overall grade because safety isn’t graded here. At the median price of €2,326/m², a 70 m² home costs 6.6 times the median annual income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size) in the Communauté d'agglomération Privas Centre Ardèche. Its strongest is jobs & income (B+): 0.4 jobs per working resident; 5.9% unemployment.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas.
Each subject compares Chomérac 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.
Chomérac has no overall grade because safety isn’t graded here.
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The Culture ministry lists no building in Chomérac as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Pont d'Ouveze, in Privas, 3.6 mi away.
Part of the town has been a protected historic area, a site patrimonial remarquable, since 1998.
19% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Chomérac.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
Behind the median of €2,326/m²: 93 houses and apartments sold in Chomérac between July 2023 and June 2026. House rents are put at about €9.79/m² a month. Of the homes sold, 81% were houses.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €2,366/m² | 75 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
In Ardèche, women can expect to live 85.9 years and men 79.7 (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 across France. France’s death rates at each age would predict 329 deaths in Chomérac from 2016 to 2025; there were 335, 2% more. Also worth knowing: this Ardèche town has 3 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 adjustment is a TownRatings modeling step, not an official statistic.
People 65 and over make up 26% of the town, about level with Ardèche’s towns (27%) and above compared French towns (22%). Among adults, 33% have a degree. Under-15s account for 16% of the population.
51% women, 49% men
About 96 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Ardèche 52.7%, France 51.8%.
| Chomérac | Ardèche median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 16% | 16% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 8.6% | 9.9% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 22% | 21% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 28% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 26% | 27% | 22% |
| No diploma | 15% | 24% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 25% | 26% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 21% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 33% | 25% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Ardèche median and France median: the median of compared communes
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Near Chomérac, 85.0% of lycée candidates passed the bac, lower than both Ardèche’s towns (94.1%) and compared French towns (92.9%). Collège pupils travel 3 mi to the nearest one. By results, schools here place #9 of 21 in Ardèche.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Bernard de VentadourNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 229 | 88%−2 pts |
| Lycée professionnel Léon PavinNearest lycéeVocational lycée | Vocational lycée | 34 | 85%+2 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
8.7% of commuters left the car at home at the census, walking, cycling or taking public transport. The median disposable income was €27,180 a year per consumption unit, higher than both Ardèche’s towns (€22,735) and compared French towns (€25,970).
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Police and gendarmerie figures for Chomérac show 22 offenses in 2025. Each year (2023–2025 average), violence against people came to 3.3 per 1,000 residents and the graded property crimes to 5.5. More of the graded crimes in the town were criminal damage than anything else (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, sexual violence, burglary, vehicle theft and theft from vehicles, 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, 27.8% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Nothing in Chomérac is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
One notable person was born in Chomérac.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chomérac | 3,183 | — | — | B | — | B |
| Privas | 8,538 | 3.8 | B− | A− | C | C |
| Le Pouzin | 2,886 | 5 | C | B− | C | B− |
| Cruas | 2,898 | 6.1 | — | B+ | — | C+ |
| Loriol-sur-Drôme Drôme | 6,614 | 8 | C− | B | D | B− |
| La Voulte-sur-Rhône | 4,854 | 9 | C | B+ | C− | C |
| Livron-sur-Drôme Drôme | 9,329 | 9.9 | C− | B− | C | C |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Chomérac has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average.
They grade B, better than 57% of compared French towns and #9 of 21 in Ardèche. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Prices are close to the median of compared French towns: the median sale price from July 2023 to June 2026 was €2,326/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Chomérac grades B for cost of living.
Commune in Ardèche, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Chomérac is a commune of 3,183 people in the Communauté d'agglomération Privas Centre Ardèche. 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.